Image quality

Hi Maria, and welcome to Heroes?

What tool are you using to create the screen capture?

Bruce

Thank you Bruce.

I used MS Paint; both are saved in .png format.  Hope I answered your question.

Maria

Hmmm.

I am not a graphics genius, however, are you able to use something else to capture?

Here is something similar I just created using "Snagit", which is what I use for all captures, and it looks much higher quality/res than Paint.

Bruce

Maria, you might also try Paint.NET. It's a great free image editor. http://www.getpaint.net/

I was able to use Snagit and this is how the image looks on Engage:

It doesn't look any better than the one using MS Paint.  I will try Paint.Net and let you know soon.

Bruce,

I can't install any program on my work laptop.  I will be able to try Paint.Net when I get home.

What I do notice is that the image quality seems to diminish once it goes through Articulate Engage, no matter how good your original image is.  Is there any solution to this?

Have you adjusted the quality setting in Engage?  To get there, click on Interaction Properties, and then select the Quality tab.  See image below:

Here is your image in an engage interaction with the quality setting at 95%...

My image in Engage interaction with the quality setting at 100%

I changed the font to "Arial Bold" and here's the image in the Engage interation with the same quality setting:

The text is still not as crispy as I would expect.  Did I miss anything here?

Have you tried using the Articulate Extrabold font?  I think it was specifically designed for digital use.  I recall reading somewhere that some fonts work better than others when presented digitally.  That being said, you may want to try the Articulate Extrabold font or any of the other fonts in the Articulate set.

Hi Blake,

Thank you for your reply.  Here is my image using Articulate Narrow Bold font.

Any other tips?

I think the biggest issue you are facing is that the font size in the image is too small to get the quality you desire.  I would use the zoom feature.  See attached.  Or try the guided image possibly in conjunction with the zoom feature. 

Here is the guided image.

I like the guided image with the zoom feature.  Thank you very much for the helpful tip!  I appreciate your time.