As a publisher, video creator or web developer you might need screenshots of a website, that have a higher resolution than your physical monitor. For example if you have a 1920 x 1080 (full HD) monitor, but you want your screenshots to be in 4K (3840 x 2160) or even 8K (7680 x 4320). With traditional methods of taking a screenshot like Snipping Tool however, you can only take screenshots that have the same resolution as your monitor. But Google Chrome itself actually has a built-in functionality to capture higher resolution screenshots. In the following tutorial I will show you how to make use of it: InstructionsSteps 3, 4 and 5 must only be done once. For the second time the process will be much shorter. Step 1: Step 2: The view that appears now is a mode which helps web developers to test their websites on different screen sizes. The default screen size is “Responsive” but you can also choose other screen types in the dropdown menu. Step
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4: Step 5: Step 6: Step 7: Depending on your machine it will take several seconds for Chrome to render the screenshot. When everything is done, the screenshot will be saved to your download folder. That’s it!You’ve just created an 8K screenshot of a website. Check the image properties if you don’t believe me. Or download the screenshot here. The screen device you created, will be stored in your browser and you don’t need to recreate it every time. Next time you want to take a high resolution screenshot, just hit F12, click the “Toggle device bar” icon, select your screenshot device and hit “Capture screenshot”. That’s a matter of 10 seconds! BonusIf you select “Capture full size screenshot” in the menu instead, a screenshot of the entire website (from header to footer) will be created. This is useful, when you want to archive how a website looked at a certain point in time. How do I make snip and sketch higher quality?The way to increase resolution is to display the image as large as possible on your monitor before using Snip & Sketch. Obviously the larger the selection area is, greater the number of pixels. Online photo companies note the DPI given in the Image file and they probably require a certain minimum of say 600 DPI.
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