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    Originally Posted by CategoryTheory Go to original post
    Often enough, especially in these days of higher resolution, cropping is now more useful, not less. For example, consider the the image from your post here (the second one, from you, not the one quoted above it). The key point there is whether or not the enemy in the sight is pulsed; this enemy is just a few millimeters in size in the image in browser window on my screen (below left). Cropping down to the portion in question displays the key part at full size in the forum post (below centre). This is from a screenshot at 1080p; had this been from my PC it would have been a 1440p screenshot and the resize would have made the portion in question even smaller when embedded in the post (as simulated below right).





    I find that using files rather than the clipboard is still more incovnenient because I still have to use a file browser to navigate to the directory containing the image file. (Yes, there are things one can do to mitigate this, but they come with their own downsides.)



    Yes, using forum software that allows uploading images directly, rather than having to use a third-party image hosting service, has some advantages. I'm glad to see that Ubisoft is moving towards that! I do hope that they bring over all the posts from the old forum if they move the older games to it, though. Having to search two different forums would be a bit of a pain. (Losing the history would be even worse.)
    Right click -> open in new tab and then it displays in full res. Much like you shouldn't waste time trying to watch an embedded video and instead just use it to reroute to the video hosting sight where again it will be at the correct resolution. There's usually more than one way to skin the Windows cat and what method people choose to use is up to them really. As long as the point they are trying to make is made then who cares about the specifics of how they go about it.
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    Originally Posted by RichardOshea Go to original post
    Right click -> open in new tab and then it displays in full res.
    Exactly. "Make the reader do extra unnecessary work." Some authors like to do that, others not. It's all about how polite they want to be.

    As long as the point they are trying to make is made then who cares about the specifics of how they go about it.
    The reader who has to put up with inconveniences, even if minor ones, may care.

    There's usually more than one way to skin the Windows cat and what method people choose to use is up to them really.
    So you agree that it's fine for people to want to crop their images? If that's the case, then cropping is not completely unnecessary.
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    Originally Posted by CategoryTheory Go to original post
    Well, there's no absolute need to use the method I described rather than another one, but I do find pasting the clipboard directly into a web page to be faster and easier than finding and uploading a file from disk. That said, for a sequence of screenshots that you want to sort through later, saving directly a series of files would be easier. Thanks for mentioning this.
    Anyone in a group going AFK to save the contents of their clipboard is not going to be popular. Not as big an issue if you're a solo player of course.
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    Originally Posted by CategoryTheory Go to original post
    Exactly. "Make the reader do extra unnecessary work." Some authors like to do that, others not. It's all about how polite they want to be.



    The reader who has to put up with inconveniences, even if minor ones, may care.



    So you agree that it's fine for people to want to crop their images? If that's the case, then cropping is not completely unnecessary.

    Author? OK Dostoevsky, you do you.
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    I've updated the head post to add Snip & Sketch (activated with Windows-Shift-S), which allows you to take a cropped part of the screen directly (as well as the full screen), rather than having to select and crop later in a paint program. As with PrtSc, the image is copied to the clipboard, but with one keypress and two clicks you can open it in the Snip & Sketch app, freeing the clipboard for another image.

    I've also added a note about Paint 3D, and example of the (very different!) MS Paint and Paint 3D resizing algorithm output.
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