[Pro] High resolution screen shot?

What’s the best way to capture a high-resolution (print quality) screen shot of my client’s website for use in a printed ad, which I’m designing in Indesign CS5?


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Well, the only way to do this is to print the page to PDF (which will get you razor-sharp text), then rasterize that in Photoshop and add in higher-resolution graphics where needed. Be sure to enable the “print backgrounds” option in your browser’s print panel.

The other way is to simply reduce a standard screenshot down to a very small thumbnail, which brings the ppi up to print standard.

There’s no way to magically increase the resolution of a web-resolution graphic, but if you have higher-resolution originals you can composite them back into the PDF text base.

Walter

On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:32 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

What’s the best way to capture a high-resolution (print quality) screen shot of my client’s website for use in a printed ad, which I’m designing in Indesign CS5?


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Thanks Walter. I was thinking the PDF route was the best. I’ll try that first.


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There is a nice software called Paparazzi! which will capture a page in
it’s entirety and save it to a variety of graphic formats. It will not
raise the resolution as the web is more or less 72ppi - but if you scale it
to 24% in inDesign, you will produce a high enough apparent resolution for
average print screens (150lpi).

The other thing to keep in mind is color space - the web is also an RGB
device and some colors suffer in the conversion to CMYK print space (like
black type). inDesign has a previewing feature that works well enough even
if you haven’t fine-tuned your system color - something only experienced
print designers should attempt in my opinion. It may be possible to use
Photoshop to open, convert then correct the color of the page images, but
I’d advise keeping things simple as possible.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:

What’s the best way to capture a high-resolution (print quality) screen
shot of my client’s website for use in a printed ad, which I’m designing in
Indesign CS5?


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The rule of thumb has always been 2 pixels per screen line. But back in my prepress days we read a study stating that the square root of two (1.414) pixels per line screen contained all the information necessary for quality reproduction. I don’t remember the mathematical argument, but it seemed reasonable at the time. We ran some tests at the end of a press run and found, at least for the web presses we were running on, that there was almost no difference between 300 ppi and 212 ppi (150 line screen). Some of the more experienced guys could see some minor, unobjectionable differences. I could only see them when they were pointed out to me.

Sheet fed on high end stock might be different. We were printing general interest magazines, not jewelry ads.

At any rate, you should be OK using a screen shot at 34% (72 ppi / .34 = 212 ppi) for a 150 line screen, or 38% (72 / .38 = 188) for a 133 line screen.

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On 5 Jun 2013, 7:47 pm, The Big Erns wrote:

There is a nice software called Paparazzi! which will capture a page in
it’s entirety and save it to a variety of graphic formats. It will not
raise the resolution as the web is more or less 72ppi - but if you scale it
to 24% in inDesign, you will produce a high enough apparent resolution for
average print screens (150lpi).

The other thing to keep in mind is color space - the web is also an RGB
device and some colors suffer in the conversion to CMYK print space (like
black type). inDesign has a previewing feature that works well enough even
if you haven’t fine-tuned your system color - something only experienced
print designers should attempt in my opinion. It may be possible to use
Photoshop to open, convert then correct the color of the page images, but
I’d advise keeping things simple as possible.

I agree. I like simple. And yes, I know about the RGB to CMYK color conversion. To make matters worse, this is going to be printed on a digital press so I’m sure my color will be all over the board anyway. Fortunately, color accuracy is not too important for this one. Thanks for your help.


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Thanks Steve. I just experimented with the PDF route, and while all of my text looked good, the png graphics and logos really sucked, so I think I’ll need to use a screen shot or the Paparazzi! program Ernie mentioned.


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Do you know anyone with a Retina Macbook Pro? You could just ask them to take a grab for you. Or you could look into getting one yourself if this is something you commonly need to do.

Joe

On 5 Jun 2013, at 21:45, “RavenManiac” email@hidden wrote:

Thanks Steve. I just experimented with the PDF route, and while all of my text looked good, the png graphics and logos really sucked, so I think I’ll need to use a screen shot or the Paparazzi! program Ernie mentioned.


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You could also try this service: http://grabz.it/ They will take a screen grab (supposedly high-res) and email it to you.

Joe

On 5 Jun 2013, at 21:50, Joe Billings email@hidden wrote:

Do you know anyone with a Retina Macbook Pro? You could just ask them to take a grab for you. Or you could look into getting one yourself if this is something you commonly need to do.

Joe

On 5 Jun 2013, at 21:45, “RavenManiac” email@hidden wrote:

Thanks Steve. I just experimented with the PDF route, and while all of my text looked good, the png graphics and logos really sucked, so I think I’ll need to use a screen shot or the Paparazzi! program Ernie mentioned.


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On 5 Jun 2013, 8:58 pm, Joe Billings wrote:

You could also try this service: http://grabz.it/ They will take a screen grab (supposedly high-res) and email it to you.

Joe

On 5 Jun 2013, at 21:50, Joe Billings

That is too cool. Thanks Joe, I’ll give it a shot. BTW, I just purchased a new MacBook Pro (non-retina display) this past January, so I’m out of equipment funds right now. Besides, I don’t do this that often.

Thanks again.


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On 5 Jun 2013, 8:58 pm, Joe Billings wrote:

You could also try this service: http://grabz.it/ They will take a screen grab (supposedly high-res) and email it to you.

Joe

On 5 Jun 2013, at 21:50, Joe Billings

Unfortunately, I just discovered that in order to get high-rez screen shots you have to shell out $14.99/mo. Too bad, that service looked really promising. :frowning:


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On the other hand, that Paparazzi app works really well.


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In Photoshop there is always an option of printing the background or screen shot printing where you can edit the resolution and pixel to the maximum ratio in order to have it printed in quality resolution.


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When I worked at a printers back in the late 90’s 1.41 was our guide as well, So I can confirm Steve is correct.
If you times the lines per inch the print is going to be printed at e.g. 150lpi then you get 210 ppi the minimum image needs to be.
So on a retina mac I can get a screen shot to be good at just under 70% its original size in a desktop publishing program.

max


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