27 Replies Latest reply: Sep 11, 2010 2:59 AM by Kitti-girl's Mom RSS

    How can I place good screenshots into InDesign?

    Kitti-girl's Mom Community Member

       

      This is essentially what I am trying to do as well...Is there a correct answer that was given? How do know which answer is the one correct answer that is noted in the forum? My question is identical to the one below. My screen shots are off a website.

       

      I am working on a guide in InDesign to distribute to our customers that shows step by step instructions on how to use our software.  I am taking screenshots of the software and placing them into InDesign.  I have tried this many different ways now and I can't get the images to look clear.  I have taken the screenshot and pasted it into Illustrator, Photoshop, even Paint and then saved it as many different file types, jpeg, gif, tif, etc.  It looks great in Illustrator or Photoshop but after I place the image into InDesign it looks awful.  It looks blurry on the screen and after I print.

       

      If I paste the image into Illustrator and then copy from there and simply paste into InDesign the image looks much better.  Almost perfect.  But I know this isn't the right way to do this and the images aren't saved/linked this way.

       

      Does anyone have any suggestions?