Webcam Pics

[hungrylilboy]

i just did a scream print (alt+prtsc) and then pasted the result (from my webcam) into word (being the handy thing around at the time)

colour good, image good etc

then opened up photoshop and pasted the result into that and the colour is terrible. All washed out and no definition. how can i solve this?

[MicroScreen2]

what do you mean by all washed out and no definition?

[hungrylilboy]

Originally posted by MicroScreen2@7 July 2004 - 14:17
what do you mean by all washed out and no definition?

as in the pasted copy in word (direct from the screen print) is perfect colour.

Then copying this into photoshop makes colours like pink go grey etc. washed out as in greyer colours and no definition as in looks kinda blurred but the original wasnt

[sparsely]

just skip the Word thing completely.
It's not a graphincs program, it's prolly losing lots of colors by doing that.
Just Print Screen, then your image is on the clipboard.
Go to Photoshop, and make a new document, and just Ctrl+V there.

or, at least, that's how I do a screenshot with Fireworks.

[hungrylilboy]

Originally posted by Sparsely@7 July 2004 - 15:25
just skip the Word thing completely.
It's not a graphincs program, it's prolly losing lots of colors by doing that.
Just Print Screen, then your image is on the clipboard.
Go to Photoshop, and make a new document, and just Ctrl+V there.

or, at least, that's how I do a screenshot with Fireworks.

thats the thing, i stupidly opened word cos it was the closest thing at the time

but the colour is perfect on there.

[TheRealDave]

enlarge the image (in word) then take another screenshot?