Comparing the Quality of Saved Images: Screenshot/Snipping Tool ≠ Download

I couldn't find a way to download an image at the Family History Center so made a screenshot using the Snipping Tool.  I was pleased -- until I enlarged the image at home and found its clarity lacking, and realized that the more the image was enlarged, the more pixelated it became. 

Here is a comparison of images from the same document in FamilySearch saved using three different tools plus the downloaded image.  Please click to enlarge the images in a new window to see the differences.

Snipping Tool.

Image cropped from FamilySearch using Snipping Tool, saved as png image

Print Screen button on keypad.

Image cropped from FamilySearch using Print Screen button on keyboard, saved as jpg image

Firefox's print screen.

Image cropped from FamilySearch using Firefox's Print Screen tool, saved as png image

Downloaded image.

Imaged cropped from downloaded image from FamilySearch, saved as jpg image

There are times when a clear image could be very important such as when there's a lot of writing on a page; think census, handwritten court document, etc.  If there is no way to download a document image I'll make a screen capture and try to be satisfied with it but as you can tell from the images above (especially if you enlarged them) a downloaded image is clearly more clear. 

--Nancy.

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