Screen Caps from tablet

I'm trying to make a stop motion educational white board video. We tried with the phone and iPad and there were too many shadows and bad lighting. So I wanted to try using the Wacom tablet (which I can trace drawings) and using screen caps. But of course I want the pictures to be full screen or I want a partial screen cap because I don't want to edit 1000 photos. I could use the iPad and the bamboo paper app- am I missing any other options or ways to make this easier?

Neale,
Thanks for that. I had never used Alt+Prt Scr on my Sager, and did not know of the specifics of that modifier key. On my laptop, I need to do Ctrl+Prt Scr, rather than the more common Prt Scr (no modifier key), but that is fairly specific to my Sager on the Clevo MoBo, with its keyboard. On many computers, just plain Prt Scr is all that's needed.
I'll experiment with Alt+Prt Scr, as that might actually save me a Crop in PS, when doing a screen-cap.
Thanks,
Hunt

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I've already tried obtaining assistance from the SnagIt people, but they feel it's an InDesign setting I'm missing, which is likely since my skill with InDesign is very beginner level. Thank you kindly for any assistance.
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You don’t say what’s wrong with the screen captures, but since you list several different resolutions I can guess. You are resampling and Photoshop is trying to produce smooth results, assuming the image is a photograph and that aliased (pixelated) details are undesirable.
Screen captures look best when they are not resampled. Save them in a lossless format like PNG or TIF and place them unmodified. If you edit them and add any layers or text (Layers panel shows anything but a single Background layer), then save as PSD or Photoshop PDF. Some print shops might either flag those low-res files as problems, or try to “help” you by upsampling them. You can avoid these issues by resampling in Photoshop using Nearest Neighbor interpolation. Use full 100% increments, ie: not from 72 ppi to 300 ppi (416.67%) but 72 to 288 ppi (400%).
Other tricks to explore are changing the antialiasing method of your display. Sub-pixel antialiasing is often used for LCD displays, but when enlarged and printed (look at the noise around “Font Family”) can be ugly. On a Mac you can turn this off in the Appearance Preference Pane.
Black can be a nuisance with screen captures. Your screen captures are probably saved in RGB. When they are printed the RGB values are converted to CMYK by the print shop. Normally, this is not something to be concerned with. But Black in RGB (0,0,0) is usually treated as a rich black or photographic black, and is converted to a colour with lots of each CMYK ink in it. For the fine type, dialogues, and lines of a screen grab, that is undesireable.
I have my own way of dealing with this, and I know others who have similar, but not identical, workflows. All require Photoshop. If you want further help with this, please ask either here or in the Photoshop forum.

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Users often ask how to do screen-caps, to show what is happening with their program. Below are possible workflows for creating the screen-caps, and then there are instructions on how to "attach" the screen-caps to a Reply in the Adobe Forums, but only if one is accessing them via a Web browser - with e-mail access, you cannot attach a screen-cap, or other image file. There are first several utilities that will help you do this, but I will outline the steps using Adobe Photoshop and the Windows Clipboard. One can substitute their image editing program of choice, such as Photoshop Elements, PaintShop Pro, or other.
Windows has a Clipboard feature, and one can use the Print Screen key (often seen as Prt Sc, etc., and depending on their computer, might have to also use a modifier key, such as the Ctrl key).
First, set up your program, so that the necessary items are shown. This might be zooming in on the Timeline, even expanding it vertically, moving the CTI (Current Time Indicator with the red Edit Line attached), and perhaps selecting a problem Clip. Often, the Program Monitor will also need to be seen, and perhaps the Project Panel showing the proper Asset, or maybe the Effects Control Panel. Get these setup, so that they are visible, and where you want them. Now, hit the Print Screen key (see above for comments). The screen will now be an image in Clipboard.
Open your image editing program. Here, I’m using Photoshop. Create a New Image. Photoshop will first look in the Clipboard, and if there is an image there, will even set up your New Image to match that w/ the proper pixel x pixel size. Here, I name that New Image with a name that means something to me, like, “PrE_Audio_Mixer_01.” I use the underscore, in lieu of spaces, as the forum software sometimes has problems with file names containing spaces. Yes, I know that this is so Windows 98, but it works well for me.
Hit Ctrl+V to Paste the image from the Clipboard into this New Image. If my full screen-cap has captured more image area, than I need, I Crop to the important parts.
Next, if I need to do call outs, or annotate the image, I use the Text Too, and maybe will draw boxes, or circles, to make sure that the viewer knows exactly where I want them to look and what to look for. To draw arrows, or lines, I use the Shape Tool, and/or the Pen Tool, and Stroke, or Fill these Paths, as is necessary.
At this point, I have a Layered file with drawings and text, overlaying my screen image. I will do a Save_As and choose .PSD to keep my Layers handy for any additional editing, if necessary. The one problem is that the Adobe forum will NOT attach a .PSD file. Here, one has several choices. One is to do a Save_for_Web, and let PS Flatten the Layers, and merge them into one Layer. That will also remove any Alpha Channels, and/or Paths. Two popular formats are .PNG, or JPEG, and Save_for_Web allows for either of these. The choice is yours, but I normally just use JPEG with a Quality of about 9, in Photoshop to compress the image, but still leave it sharp enough for others to read. Again, PNG is a good choice as well, and will yield slightly better quality for the file size. Only possible issue is that many older browsers (what the viewers will be using to view the screen-cap) do not handle PNG. All newer browsers do, and do so very well. I have begun using PNG, instead of any compression of JPEG, and the results are better, and sharper.
With the screen-cap image Saved to our HDD, I use the little “camera” icon, in the lower-middle of the Adobe Forum editing screen’s Toolbar, to actually attach the image:
Here is an example of a screen-cap with the program setup as I needed, call outs and annotations:
Hope that this helps. Note: other image editing programs will differ, as will various screen-cap utilities.
Good luck,
Hunt

Neale,
Thanks for that. I had never used Alt+Prt Scr on my Sager, and did not know of the specifics of that modifier key. On my laptop, I need to do Ctrl+Prt Scr, rather than the more common Prt Scr (no modifier key), but that is fairly specific to my Sager on the Clevo MoBo, with its keyboard. On many computers, just plain Prt Scr is all that's needed.
I'll experiment with Alt+Prt Scr, as that might actually save me a Crop in PS, when doing a screen-cap.
Thanks,
Hunt

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I'm placing screen captures (screen images from software) in my artwork files to add callouts and create illustrations for a user manual.
The machine I'm capturing on has a screen resolution set at 1920 x 1080 (required for software). I'm using Snagit and capturing the screens, saving files, then placing in Illustrator. I've been using images minimum 300 dpi and never upsizing in Illustrator. Still I think my results could be better.
In the past I've used .jpg as my export filetype for placing into Illustrator. But, recent reads of postings in this community lead me to believe my practice might be flawed.
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my video is still blurry when I play it in Premiere. I used all the same settings you used in the tutorial
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