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Anonymous
August 18, 2013
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Best Practices with Image Files?

  • August 18, 2013
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I'm using Captivate 6 to edit a project developed by someone else. I am taking new screen shots with PicPick Editor, resizing them to fit within the canvas size of the project, saving them as a png file and then importing them into Captivate. The problem is that the resolution of the screenshot  looks clear & crisp in PicPick, but after it's been inserted into Captivate, it loses a ton of quality & becomes very pixelated in preview mode.

What am I doing wrong? Is there any way to retain the resolution quality after importing into Captivate?

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Anjaneai_Srivastava
Adobe Employee
Anjaneai_Srivastava
Adobe Employee
August 19, 2013

Can you check the slide quality from Slide properties ?

You can enhance the quality of the complete project from Edit-- Preferences--SWF Size and Quality, set it to High.

Thanks,

Anjaneai

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
August 20, 2013

Anjaneai, why do you recommend High over Optimized (is default quality since 6.1)? Just curious?

Isn't the problem here that the png's used for backgrounds will be converted to bmp by Captivate?  I never use PickPick (am a Snagit fan), don't know the quality it produces. And what about the resolution used, even a difference of 1 pixel can cause pixelation.

Lilybiri

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2013

@Lilybiri: Sometimes it's worth testing High 24bit quality against Optimized.  In most occasions that I have done this I found that High 24bit actually resulted in SMALLER published file sizes than Optimized.  Not sure why, but that's what happened.

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