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Just now, MrMLGBlade said:

Oh, I'm using Micorsoft.Photos and GIMP.

open the files in ms paint or a browser and check if they are compressed

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I've taken some screenshots on Windows using ('Print Screen') and pasted them into MSPaint*.exe, the pictures look amazing!!
When pre-viewing I can see the pixels as perfect quality. No quality lost at all, but if I save them in any file type (file extension). All become pixelate, unsmooth, and disgusting compare to their lossless original appearance.
The question is about how to save those screenshots into nearly perfect image quality.

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There's different image formats. Some are lossy (reduced qualify to save file size) and some are lossless. You're probably saving out as JPG which is lossy. You should save as PNG instead, which is lossless.

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The problem is that I don't want the images to be Aliasing. The image should be like as it was taken. *In Pixels not FIXED PIXELS...

yes if you're using paint classic then it doesn't do any compression with bmp or png. They should be saving as taken.

be sure whatever program youre using to preview the image isn't doing the aliasing

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10 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

There's different image formats. Some are lossy (reduced qualify to save file size) and some are lossless. You're probably saving out as JPG which is lossy. You should save as PNG instead, which is lossless.

I have litterly used them all, they stink! *.BMP uses more space than *.PNG but both are execent quality compare to *.JPG in rounded images. but As I want the closest to orginal. That would be a No Brainer... *.JPG is better at text.

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1 minute ago, emosun said:

Yes, if you're using paint classic then it doesn't do any compression with *.BMP or *.PNG. They should be saving as taken.
 be sure whatever program you're using to preview the image isn't doing the aliasing

What's "Classic Paint"?

Do you know where I'll be able to access that version of program? I would be happy to know if that is possible.

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Just now, MrMLGBlade said:

I have litterly used them all, they stink! *.BMP uses more space than *.PNG but both are execent quality compare to *.JPG in rounded images. but As I want the closest to orginal. Their a no brainer... *.JPG is better at text.

JPG is the worst at text. It's only good with things like photos because the compression is less noticeable in photos. Anything with fine detail is a huge no for JPG. PNG is the best for graphical elements and text. I'm not sure what you're seeing but PNG is a 100% lossless format so it's exactly the same.

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4 minutes ago, MrMLGBlade said:

Their a no brainer... *.JPG is better at text.

*spit take* HAHAHAHA... okay then.

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Just now, MrMLGBlade said:

When the screenshot is pasted into MSPaint it'll show it as lossless but if I save it as anything it compresses into a blurry mess (Mesh...)

yes what are you using to view the saved file?

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2 minutes ago, emosun said:

Open the files in MSPaint or a browser and check if they are compressed.

I opened the image with MSPaint and well... Windows must be stupid or something because the quality is perfect when viewing screenshots in MSPaint. There's no compromise! Thanks for the tip!

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1 minute ago, MrMLGBlade said:

I opened the image with MSPaint and well... Windows must be stupid or something because the quality is perfect when viewing screenshots in MSPaint. There's no compromise! Thanks for the tip!

programs these days either apply smoothing to reduce the load while editing an image or to reduce the mosaic on low res images.

very few programs actually show images as they are and vectorize the pixels correctly.

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