Does a Photo 'Snipped' from a Website lose any quality?

Cyberdesigner · 29 Oct 2015

The 'Snip' is one of my Favourite tools in the Box in Windows 10

As when I'm building a Website for someone, if they have a Photo Online that they would like me to use on their Site, then rather than download it from an email, that 'may' contain a Virus from someone I don't know, I can just 'Snip it' and Paste it, into their New Website.

But does the Photo lose any Quality, when its done this way?

lehnerus2000 · 29 Oct 2015

It depends.
Pictures are often resized (smaller) on web pages.
If you take a screenshot (or snip) you may be capturing the smaller image.

FF and its spin-offs (Pale Moon, WaterFox, etc.) have a "View Image" and "View Image Info" options in their context menus.
They also have a "Page Info" option which allows you to view all of the individual elements on a page.

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Note:
If the image is in a Flash gallery you probably have no choice other than to take screenshots.

Cyberdesigner · 29 Oct 2015

Hi and Thanks

I haven't really noticed any loss of quality so far except when Capturing a small image and then expanding it, in which case I ask the Customer to put up a larger image, which I can capture with a 'Snip'

lehnerus2000 · 29 Oct 2015

Cyberdesigner said:

Hi and Thanks

I haven't really noticed any loss of quality so far except when Capturing a small image and then expanding it, in which case I ask the Customer to put up a larger image, which I can capture with a 'Snip'

Since Windows screenshots ("Windows Key + PrtScn") and snips are png files, they should be WYSIWYG. :)

Does a Photo 'Snipped' from a Website lose any quality?

Does a Photo 'Snipped' from a Website lose any quality?

Depends