d'oh! I forgot about the resolution thing. No matter, I can retake the ones I did at 800x600 easily enough. Are there any that aren't really worth bothering with Brian, or should I retake them all at the new res? I assume apart from that they were generally OK.
thanks -mike On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:25, Brian Vincent wrote: > I've been meaning to put something together for a few days here.. > > > shots to Brian isn't the best way to go about it as nobody knows who has > > sent what. Have you actually got any yet Brian? > > First, take a look at: > > http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/ss > > Quite a few folks have sent stuff in. Now, after looking at so > many screenshots and trying to evaluate them for content I've > realized a few things.. > > 1) We're absolutely going to have to insist on 800x600 resolution. > Thanks for all the ones so far, but really the only usable ones > are the 800x600. (There are exceptions, such as Mike's Quicktime > one that can be resized nicely.) > > 2) Screenshots of an application doing something are the way to > go. For instance, the one Mike just sent me showing Adobe's SVG > plug-in in IE is WAY cool. Unfortunately it's not usable because > of the resolution. Even a pull-down menu being pulled down is enough. > > 3) Cluttered desktops suck. You don't need to have 3 terminal > windows, Mozilla, and everything else in the background. For the most > part I think the screenshots have followed that rule closely. > > Okay, here's the deal.. Thomas Wickline volunteered to do screenshots > of these apps: > > Office 2000 and everything in it > lotus notes > Quicken > Quick Books > visio > > Carlos Lozano did shots for the "gold" list apps. I'm going to ask > him for some more here in the future.. (unbeknowst to him) > > The following would be nice to see: > any game > the exact same screenshot Mike Hearn sent of IE/SVG except at 800x600 > Adobe Photoshop > > Anything else is fair game. I'll put screenshots on that URL above, > so check there before doing any. > > -brian -- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QinetiQ