Re: Screenshots Too Light

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

These are professionally printed? You're sending the same PDF that
looks fine on screen to the printer and the resutls are too pale?

Could be an issue in the RGB to CMYK conversion.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Karen Field Carroll<kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net> wrote:
> On-screen images have light features. In the printed guides, the whole
> page/image is very pale, although when the users open them in PDF (aka: on
> screen) I think they're fine.
>
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> I'm not sure what you're describing here. Is the captured image in
> SnagIt not pixel for pixel identical to the original you see on the
> screen?
>
> When you say, "in the guides," are you talking about something printed?
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Karen Field Carroll<kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net>
> wrote:
>> I'm using SnagIt for screenshots, which I love, but the Web sites I
> document
>> use light-colored objects, such as baby-blue buttons, and my graphics
> always
>> appear way too light in the guides. I've tried experimenting with SnagIt's
>> contrast features, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Does anyone have
>> any ideas on how to darken page objects without darkening the whole image?
>> Thanks.
>> Karen
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