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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Screenshots
Might be discussed before, but why cant we upload JPEG images as screenshots? I mean its 2021 and everything? |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4723 |
<Post edited by hedning on 11/3-2021 17:10>
Screenshots are for pixel exact 320x200 C64 screenshots mainly with 16 colours. That's why. And it was made 1982-1992.
If you want a screenshot for non c64 stuff, just convert it to a png. Should be easy these days, as it's 2021, and everything. ;) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11364 |
because jpeg is terrible for pixel gfx |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2970 |
Yes, this is not a compatibility issue ("its 2021 and everything"), it's simply not wanted for screenshots, for other technical reasons.
Transforming pixel graphics to the frequency domain, with their razor-sharp edges, will invariably result in crappy quality. Thus PNG et al. |
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Okay then. |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 661 |
Yeah, we always had a rule in work: JPEG for photos... PNG/GIF/BMP for anything with text or where definition is important. JPEG really doesn’t work well for lo-res images IMO... |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
its not like back in the day we had razor sharp pixels on the CRTs :) but just nitpicking, png ofcourse. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2970 |
Oswald: Yeah, the arbitrary insistance on emulator-made images without any kind of scaling, effectively forbidding realthing pixel aspect ratio... different story. =) |
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HCL
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 727 |
JPEG for screenshot?!? You have to be a Madman to propose such a thing ;D |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2220 |
I ALSO was confused and thought I was a total expert of screenshots!
But then... Weak in Progress II
SCNR |
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zzarko
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 77 |
So, if I take a photo of real CRT/LCD screen, would that be allowed as a screenshot for a release? Could then JPG be allowed or should it be converted to PNG nevertheless? Or is only accepted option PNG from emulator? |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2220 |
in general nope (photograph of screen) and yeah (emulamer) and (mods might be surprised that I'm the one stating that->) for good reasons
exceptions might be hardware releases, but in these cases probably: what hedning wrote
See Screenshot minimum size
and How to make a proper CSDB screenshot in VICE?
Madmen... :D |
