screenshots, how to?

[C. Free]

i need some help. how do i take and then post a screenshot? thanks a bunch.

[Rhothaerill]

1. Press the "print screen" key when you have the shot you want in front of you.

2. Open up a graphics program (MS Paint will work, but not well). vmxa1 will show up in here soon with his link to a free downloadable editor

3. Paste the image into the graphics program

4. Resize the image to a maximum of 800x600 (the max size Poly allows) and save as a .jpg image.

5. Click on the "post reply" in Poly (instead of using the quick reply at the bottom of the page) and scroll down until you see that you can browse for images. Browse and find the image you want to post. Make sure you include at least one word in the text area or it won't post.

6. Click on the "submit reply" button and you're done.

[Dis]

yeah what he said, I prefer to convert them to jpg images first. ms paint seems to make them into bmp images.

[Rhothaerill]

Good point and I usually do too. I'll add that above.

[vmxa1]

Ok here it is:

http://www.irfanview.com/

[Dis]

yep, I use irfanview as well. I use it for all my screenshots.

[Grandpa Troll]

indeed

I have PSP7 and that is how I do it

.jpeg

good luck

[justjake73]

Originally posted by Dissident
yeah what he said, I prefer to convert them to jpg images first. ms paint seems to make them into bmp images.

"SAVE AS" allows saving in Paint as jpeg

I think it's ALT + PRNTSCRN to get the grab

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by justjake73


"SAVE AS" allows saving in Paint as jpeg

I think it's ALT + PRNTSCRN to get the grab

as long a jpeg is the default file extension

and for grabbing the screen shot PRT SCN will do the trick

Gramps

[tonyhaug]

It's CNTRL and PrintScreen at the same time. And you can paste it (immediately, before you save any other file) into MS PowerPoint if you have it. You can paste it into MS Word or Wordpad, but then you can't get it back out as a jpeg. If you have MS PictureIt! you can also paste it into a blank frame and then save it as a jpeg.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by tonyhaug
It's CNTRL and PrintScreen at the same time. And you can paste it (immediately, before you save any other file) into MS PowerPoint if you have it. You can paste it into MS Word or Wordpad, but then you can't get it back out as a jpeg. If you have MS PictureIt! you can also paste it into a blank frame and then save it as a jpeg.

well, I have xp and use as a picture editor PSP 7, all I do is simply press PRT SCR and then when I go to past it I right click the PSP7 new blank form and hit paste as new image

then I can alter the image by size, cropping or adding what so ever I chose

Gramps