Flare · Screenshots
Upscale screenshots to retina resolution with Flare
Screenshots taken on a non-retina display look soft on retina screens. Flare 2x or 4x sharpens UI chrome and iconography without the blur of bilinear upscaling.
Flare adds nothing. Output is built only from detail already in your file, so the result stays true to what you uploaded. More about Flare
Why Flare for screenshots
- Fast and cheap enough to run across a whole documentation site.
- Keeps flat interface colour flat instead of adding photographic texture.
- Faithful, so a screenshot still documents what the software actually showed.
Workflow
- 1Capture at the highest resolution the source display allows.
- 2Upload and pick Flare, 2x for retina or 4x for print.
- 3Export as PNG to avoid a second round of JPEG artifacts.
Honest caveat
If the screenshot is mostly small text, use Prism instead. It is built to keep letterforms exact.