? about posting screen shots

[smkymntgrl]

O.K. I have searched on this and found a thread that said to use the print screen button, but alas when I hit mine it does nothing? I can go into my print screen utility and get the screen I want to print out on paper, but I don't know how to save it to get it onto my post. I'm wanting to ask a ? about dma and thought it would be easier to do a screen shot of what I have rather then try to explain it all out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[MikeyBK]

O.K. I have searched on this and found a thread that said to use the print screen button, but alas when I hit mine it does nothing? I can go into my print screen utility and get the screen I want to print out on paper, but I don't know how to save it to get it onto my post. I'm wanting to ask a ? about dma and thought it would be easier to do a screen shot of what I have rather then try to explain it all out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

After taking the screenshot, go to the start menu and under accessories, then under MS paint, then under edit, paste and the screenshot should appear, then save as png or jpg to whatever folder you want.

[uufta]

This faq should help you...

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=45405&highlight=Posting+screenshots

[Gary D]

I use Quickshot myself because it can download an image directly to imageshack. It also has a Mozilla firefox plugin that if I right click on a picture, I can chose to send it to imageshack or to any other folder on my computer.

When I get to imageshack, I take the direct link and insert in the image file locator. I use the format PNG because it takes less data than JPG.

Links;

Mozzilla: http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

Imageshack: http://imageshack.us/index.php

Quickshot: http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=quickshot

[smkymntgrl]

Thanks for the fast reply Mikey, I'll give it a whirl.



gd8ck and uffta

[soup]

If you want a shot of just your active window only press alt/printscreen. That way you don't get everything else with it.

[Gary D]

@ soup

That is an option in quickshot while running

[soup]

I didn't know, I right click the image into photofiltre but thanks for the info.

[uufta]

This is how I learned to do it from LT. Colombo...

press ALT+print screen. open MSpaint>edit>paste>save as(select PNG).go to imageshack
http://www.imageshack.us/ browse for this file you just made, then "host" it. copy and paste the link under "hotlink for forums 1" in your post.

peace

[anonymez]

This faq should help you...
http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...ng+screenshots

just a correction :^)

Do save straight to png instead of saving to bmp and later converting to png cause the conversion will blow up file size!

is not true, both bmp and png are lossless formats, the latter allows compression. there will be no difference in quality/file size whether you save straight to png or from bmp-->png

[smkymntgrl]

I don't know what I'm not getting about this.

Mikey I tried your method and when I go to paste it in paint there is no option to paste. When you say "after taking the screenshot" what should I be using to take the screenshot?

I tried the alt printscreen but all I get is it actually printing out on paper.

When I try the quickshot w/image shack I paste the link in the post and when I preview it, it goes to the quickshot image like gd8ck posted.

I got fed up and quit trying for now. I guess I'll try again tomorrow. I must be tired and missing something! lol

[MikeyBK]

no paste option under the 'edit' function?

[photo_angel2004]

I don't know what I'm not getting about this.

Mikey I tried your method and when I go to paste it in paint there is no option to paste. When you say "after taking the screenshot" what should I be using to take the screenshot?

I tried the alt printscreen but all I get is it actually printing out on paper.

When I try the quickshot w/image shack I paste the link in the post and when I preview it, it goes to the quickshot image like gd8ck posted.

I got fed up and quit trying for now. I guess I'll try again tomorrow. I must be tired and missing something! lol

the alt/print screen doesnt work for me either it had to do with some of the programs I run. I think adobe photo shop has something to do with it. Any ways I use Snagit. You can try it free for 30 days after 30 days it doesnt cost much. And it does a lot of cool stuff.


It is also very user friendly:

http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp

[mill]

http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...ght=screenshot
I get the paste option after hitting alt and print screen but you must first select the picture you want to post by clicking on it befor you hit alt and print screen , It took me along time to figure this out/

[smkymntgrl]

After much last night I got up this morning, restarted the computer and tried again. I guess maybe last night I tried so many different things I even had my computer confused!lol I got it to work, probably not the best or easiest but I got it to work!

When I hit alt/printscreen it would try to print on paper, I had to cancel print and then go to paint. Last night paste wasn't an option under edit in paint for some reason(I'm sure it was an "operator" error!). This morning it worked fine and then I saved it and hosted thru image shack.

I tried the quickshot and was doing something wrong eveidently, will try to look into that as it looks easier. Gonna look at the snagit as well.

Thanks for all your help!