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Everytime I look at my screenshots with PS the PPI is always 72 whitch is fairly low, Is there any way to edit the config to set it higher when you take Screenshots?

Everytime I look at my screenshots with PS the PPI is always 72 whitch is fairly low, Is there any way to edit the config to set it higher when you take Screenshots?

What are you using to take screenshots with :-?

default FSX (the v button)

The images produced from hitting the V key and are stored in My Documents\My Pictures\Flight Simulator X files are bitmaps. They are not compressed and very large

Going from bitmap to JPEG compresses the files. Your image software to view and compress to JPEG is what controls the output file size and resolution, not FSX

I personally use Adobe Photoshop to convert to JPEG, compress and set the file size. Adobe allows me to set the compression factor so my screenshots are no less than the minimum allowed for one web site of another.

In example.. SimForums allows 250KB @ 1024x768. SimV allows 150KB at 1024x768 so I have 2 different action profiles for making screenshots for posting at each website so I meet their restrictions.

The viewing and compression software you use controls what the end screenshot is sized to and how clear it is through the amount of data of the resolution it is compressed to, not FSX

FSX and the V key makes a full scale bitmap which is the exact size of your screen resolution and is a very large file size. In my case I use a 1920x1200 monitor so the bitmaps the V key grabs are 1920x1200 and about 8.75MB (megabytes meaning million bytes) in file size. The same image is reduced using my preferred software, Abobe Photoshop, to 1024x768 and 150KB (kilobytes meaning thousand bytes) in file size


Your image software may not be allowing you to see the full scale image. I do not allow Adobe Photoshop to take control of my bitmaps and other images.. I use the Windows picture and fax viewer to look at the raw image and only use photoshop to resize the images I select for posting

I do have photoshop (the thing about JPEGS and BMP images reminds me of my multimedia class lol..) I asked this question because the screenshot never seems to be as good as in game but oh well, I do use photoshop (I do compress till right file size) thanks for your help anways nick!

Everytime I look at my screenshots with PS the PPI is always 72 whitch is fairly low, Is there any way to edit the config to set it higher when you take Screenshots?

The "PPI" value only affects the way the image is formatted when it is sent to a printer. It has zero affect on the image itself.

oooooo..... guess i shoulda payed more attention in multimedia

oooooo..... guess i shoulda payed more attention in multimedia

The fact that the PPI resolution is contained within the "Document Size:" section of the "Image/Image Size..." popup dialogue is a pretty good clue...