Screenshot help

[Frankychan]

Hey guys...a moment of your time for this poor poor man.


I've been trying to make some screenshots of my games lately and they are all fudging up. I hit the "Print Screen" button in game, and when I open up MS Paint and "Paste" the screen is black with only a few images here and there.

Lesse, I have MS Paint and GIMP. Is there anyway I can get it so i can get a good screenie or is this a lost cause?

[Chaos Theory]

Paste the screenie while SMAX is still running.

[Jamski]

Indeed - and run your desktop in at least as good colur depth as SMAC.

-Jam

[Frankychan]

so you want me to paste the screenie and save it as .jpg while the game is minimized?

[Chaos Theory]

AFAIK, SMAC doesn't let itself be minimized, just sent to the background.

[Enigma_Nova]

Do that in a good 256 color editing program.

Either that, or change the color depth from 8 to 16 bit at the desktop while SMAX is running.

[Jamski]

And save it as a .BMP then use PS or a similar prog to change it to a .jpg for the best results.

-Jam

[Googlie]

I save mine to Microsoft Photo Editor - easily opened while the game is running (hit the windows key, and then select it, and then open a new file and paste it in) Alt/tab returns to the game

I do that with word, too, when I'm logging events in OCC and other challenges

G.

[Blake]

Okay SMAC has ISSUES with other programs. This is my procedure:
Playing SMAC, find something I want to Screenshot, hit alt-printscreen
Press the Windows button and load Paint Shop Pro
Alt-tab to PSP and "paste as new image"
Save the image as a .psp file (but really anything could do)
Return to SMAC
Quit SMAC, this causes PSP to crash
Reload PSP, open the saved file, resize/edit whatever, save as an optimized JPG or 8bit PNG

[Velociryx]

I use photoshop without difficulty.

open it first, then run smacx. take a pic using print screen, alt tab to the photoshop window, file, new, paste the image, save as jpeg and adjust size to 800x600, then jump back to smax.

-=Vel=-

[Illuminatus]

I use Hypersnap - it takes screenshots from everything .