http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2010/06/adding-screen-captures-to-software-documentation-getting-the-size-right/ A blog about removing the ambiguity of your online communications Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2010/06/adding-screen-captures-to-software-documentation-getting-the-size-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Greg DeVore Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:59 +0000 http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/?p=1514#comment-2236 <p>@Sudheer - Thanks for catching that. I updated the post.</p> @Sudheer – Thanks for catching that. I updated the post.

]]> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2010/06/adding-screen-captures-to-software-documentation-getting-the-size-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 Sudheer Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:45:37 +0000 http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/?p=1514#comment-2235 <p>Thanks for the article. It is very useful. Btw, you must have meant aesthetics.</p> Thanks for the article. It is very useful. Btw, you must have meant aesthetics.

]]> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2010/06/adding-screen-captures-to-software-documentation-getting-the-size-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 Techquestioner Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:38:44 +0000 http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/?p=1514#comment-1921 <p>This is a great summary of how to give users context with screenshots: Enough to orient them to where they should look for an icon or menu item, but not the whole screen to waste time and page or screen real estate. I like to use a broken line border on the cropped edges of an image to visually emphasize that the rest was deliberatly omitted.</p> This is a great summary of how to give users context with screenshots: Enough to orient them to where they should look for an icon or menu item, but not the whole screen to waste time and page or screen real estate. I like to use a broken line border on the cropped edges of an image to visually emphasize that the rest was deliberatly omitted.

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