Best format for screen shots?

[Brian Yennie]

Paul,

One piece of advise on resizing: it matters a lot where you do the 
resizing. For example, resizing images in Word will give you very bad 
results, but most graphic applications will do smooth scaling.

> Tom,
> Thank you for the advice.
> I have never worked with png files. I understand that they are like a 
> "super
> GIF", similar format, more colors. Do you know if pngs are bitmaps? I 
> would
> like a format that scales well.
> So far, for everyone following this thread, the most important thing 
> I've
> learned is: keep the images full sized, if possible. Reducing the 
> screenshots to
> 75% caused more problems than using any of the formats I've tried.
> Paul Looney