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Screenshot images blur when zooming in


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Hey guys!

Looked everywhere for the answer to this.. found many answers which did not help.

Basically, here's what I'm doing: I need to convert text from a screenshot into an image.

So, I open the document with the words I need to convert, do a printscreen, open up Photoshop and paste the image into a new document. Once I zoom in to select the exact word I need, it blurs. I need it "aliased" instead of "anti-aliased".

What I tried so far is changing the image mode from RGB to Indexed color.. then upscaling it to 300dpi and switching it back to RGB (it was a suggestion from a website I found) - but didn't work.

I also tried going to PSs menu and changing the Image Interpolation to Nearest Neighbor.. but that didn't work.

Do you guys have any idea what could be going on? If you guys do a printscreen of this very post and zoom it in your Photoshop, do you see the fonts as bitmap?

Here's a photo of how someone else sees it with a 950% zoom. The word "removal" is how I see it.
35i85yo.jpg

Here's the link for the full size image: i46.tinypic.com/35i85yo.jpg


Thanks guys!



Mars
 
hi there.. the same thing happens when I try your suggestion. Here's a screenshot of what you typed:

14depuq.png

The thing is that I'm converting images from a document.. and it's a hassle to type each word i need again in photoshop, which is why i'm trying to solve this.. :)
 
You can not upscale the resolution as easy as that without blurring wouldnt it just be easier to retype it
 
hi, thanks for your reply. Clearly, you CAN upscale without it blurring.. see the first picture I posed. How can that be? That's a screenshot from Google Chrome..
 
Yes but like for like upscaling resolution to 300 dpi will make photoshop put in extra pixels and blur slightly.

the first image is a 687k file where as yours is 71k So effectively the first image is nearly 10 times better quality so yes you can zoom in to a lot larger scale than you can on yours.
 
hi, the first image is a printscreen of the whole screen, the last one is just a small rectangle..

try it yourself and see what I mean :)
 
Yes what I am talking about is the files in photoshop bottom left it tells you your document file size
 
yes.. because one image is huge and the other one really small.

this one is 2.93mb and still blurs as soon as I zoom it up.

iw87zd.jpg

so.. it has nothing to do with filesize.. :S
 
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