EVERYONE: When you save an image in photoshop, use the File>Save for Web option. That compresses it the best without losing quality. It's way better than doing Save As jpeg.
@pior & Eric Lightshot keeps the portion and its adjustable. Its kind of hard for me to put it into words, download it and you'll see what I mean. The only thing I don't really like about lightshot is that the save button (saving to file) is really close to the copy to clipboard. I guess its like an adjustable marquee tool.
I uploaded PNGs in my tutorial thread because jpeg artifacts aren't very becoming for UI screenshots, and it's common for PNGs to be smaller when there are big flat areas in an image. When I save some kind of art of course it's a JPG.
If you dont have photonshop cant you just open the png in gimp and save out as jpg? Colour jpgs only start to loose under around 60 percent quality, 80 should give you near perfect reproduction for a web presentation.
Thanks but I think it's not very convenience. I really like how you can start Greenshot in different mode instantly with printscreen plus some other keys :) The auto time-stamp added to the file name is also very nice. Jing also offers this functionality with an option to draw lines and add text before you save your screen.
Video compression only saves the differences between frames, you can bet every frame isn't anywhere near 1+ mb. Video also plays back at a fixed rate so it doesn't really matter how large the entire file is as long as you can stream it faster than it can play it back. An image has to be viewed in its entirety (or at least…