According to an article I've used in my thesis, If you really want to know, ask a blogger, you people out there have all the answers. So here's a question for all you graphic savy readers: How come the screen shots I've taken look terrible when I use them in a Word document, and how do I make them look nice?

The way I've done it is I've pressed Alt+Prt SC and then pasted the screen shot into PhotoShop. That's left me with a screen shot, which looks perfectly nice with a resolution of 72 pixels/inch and then I've saved it as a JPG-file. I've then cropped and resized it so it would fit into the document. But when I inserted it in Word it looked absolutely awful. So what I need to know is if there's any way I can create screen shots in a better resolution than 72 pixels/inch or if there's something I can do afterwards to make them look nicer in the Word document. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Oh, I also need some tips for some graphics I can use for the front page of my thesis. I need to illustrate weblogs, community, writing, or something along those lines. I've looked around to find something I could "borrow", but so far I've come up empty handed. So again any help will be greatly appreciated.

Other than that things are going pretty well. The paper has been read through by different people now and I'm trying to fix the stuff that has been pointed out to me was wrong or could be improved. And generally I'm feeling more optimistic about the end result. The thought of flunking has been driving me nuts the last couple of days, but I'm feeling a lot more confident that I've written a decent paper and that I might even get a half decent grade on it. So that's a nice shift from being worried sick for 18 months.