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[BIrONIC]

When I take a screenshot somewhere within a menu of the 'System Settings', or in an app, they are generally small-ish (usually less than 300KB). However, every time I take a screenshot of the homescreen, it is over 1MB.

Now, I don't really have a problem with this (Space is cheap these days. So, that doesn't matter). I'm just curious.... is this size disconnect due to the fact that, when the homescreen is involved in a screenshot, it has to accommodate the large, hi-res image file that we currently have set as the background?

Then....(and again, this is just for my curiosity)....even if that is the case (that screenshots of the homescreen produce larger sized files because of the file being used as the background image), why? Why can't it simply take a screenshot of whatever is on the screen, and use that?

Is it perhaps because the background image I'm using is just that much more complex, that it has a lot more data to cram into a single screenshot image file?
 

[johnthehillbilly]

AFAIK.... settings and other text screens have a lot less data to capture than say the home screen (especially) if you use a bright pic with a lot of colors.......

[BIrONIC]

Ya, that's what I was kind of thinking. It's just such an extreme difference , and my homescreen pic isn't using a lot of colors......well....maybe it's using more than I realize though.

[johnthehillbilly]

LOL .... if its not black (which is zero) its using more than you may think :)

[BIrONIC]

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I will upload a screenshot from my homescreen tomorrow and see what you think (sorry, but I'm doing well enough just to type this right now)...

[BIrONIC]

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OK, I guess I see how much detail there actually is in that pic now   :