{"id":220,"date":"2007-07-20T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/07\/20\/what_i_learned_3\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T09:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T09:39:01","slug":"what_i_learned_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/07\/20\/what_i_learned_3\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned: High-res screenshots + Ableton Live = Frustration in my blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making a high-resolution screenshot for printed materials will always be fraught with peril. I learned that the hard way when I attempted to incorporate screenshots of Ableton Live into artwork for the cover of Eponymous 4&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eponymous4.com\/projects\/in_c\/\">In C<\/a><\/em>. A simple Google search for &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=300dpi+screenshot&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">300dpi screenshot<\/a>&quot; yields a lot of advice, some good, some bad. (The first result in the search is actually incorrect.)<\/p>\n<p>For an explanation of why making high-resolution screenshots are so difficult, <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/19518\/Anyone-got-tips-for-taking-computer-screenshots-for-print#321150\">this AskMeFi question<\/a> goes into good detail. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turbophoto.com\/Photoshop-Tricks\/screenshot-photoshop-trick\/index.htm\">This technique<\/a> yielded the best results for other programs but not for Ableton Live.<\/p>\n<p>The developers of Live have gone to great lengths to make the user interface look sleek in Windows XP. All the text is anti-aliased &#8212; not a single pixelated character in the interface. (Except maybe the menus.) Those anti-aliased characters wreak havoc when upscaling Live screenshots from 72ppi to 300ppi (or dpi, since that&#8217;s what Photoshop calls it.)<\/p>\n<p>After experimenting with a whole bunch of tools &#8212; including <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/19518\/Anyone-got-tips-for-taking-computer-screenshots-for-print#320936\">some screenshot utilities for gaming<\/a> &#8212; my only course of action was to remove all text from my Live screenshot. Once the text was gone, changing the color mode from RGB to Indexed Color resulted in a smaller palette, and I could resize the screenshot. Of course, that meant if I wanted the text back in the shot, I would have to add it manually.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, there really is no way to go from 72ppi to 300ppi without some clean-up at the end of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Apple users probably don&#8217;t have a problem with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the text is anti-aliased &#8212; not a single pixelated character in the interface. Those anti-aliased characters wreak havoc when upscaling Live screenshots from 72ppi to 300ppi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia-professional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-3y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}