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Laecinth

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Screenshots

How do you take them and upload them on the forums? I know it's with some sort of software, but which is the one best fit for EE?

SmittyW

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Joined: 2015-03-13

Posts: 2,085

Re: Screenshots

You should use "Many Cam".

Chimi

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Re: Screenshots

All screenshots are the same, just a bunch of pixels.
To take a screenshot with Windows, hold shift and press the Prt Scrn/Sys rq button on your keyboard.
Open a photo editor, such as Microsoft Paint. Right click and hit paste. Save it somewhere.
To upload one, go to ImageShack and click the Browse button. Find the picture on your computer and hit Open. Then click Upload Now. It'll take you to a screen with a bunch of codes. One will be called Forum Code. right click it, click Copy, then go the forum page that you want it to be and paste it! Simple as that!

Reven

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Re: Screenshots

There's a better way to take screenshots for windows 7 users.
Start > Run > SnippingTool

Kaslai

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Re: Screenshots

One quick trick: If you hold the ALT button as you press PrintScreen, only the currently active HWND will be captured. No cropping necessary!

Bossking

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Re: Screenshots

wow aslai thats really helpful

0176

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From: Brazil

Joined: 2021-09-05

Posts: 3,174

Re: Screenshots

One quick trick: If you hold the ALT button as you press PrintScreen, only the currently active HWND will be captured. No cropping necessary!

Thanks! Too bad it doesn't work with Flash and Java...

tokebot

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Re: Screenshots

download irfan view or any other imageeditor for that matter.

press print screen on your keyboard (next to F12)
paste in irfanview (or any other) you should now have a picture of your desktop in irfanview (or any other)

crop the parts that you want in your screenshot.

save as gif or png

upload the picture to imgur.com

paste the url or the uploaded picture in your post, mark it, and click img
if you want to resize your minimap you should use "resize" or "nearest neighbor" to keep all your details when you upscale,
dont use bilinear or resample as that will blur your details when you size up

Kaosslasher

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Re: Screenshots

i use paint and Imgur and yeah

chimis tutorial is good, but imageshack sucks >.> just saying

jakery

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Re: Screenshots

How do you take them and upload them on the forums? I know it's with some sort of software, but which is the one best fit for EE?

On the PC I'm a big fan of Screenshot Captor. You can hold Shift + Print Screen and select a rectangular area to capture to a file. You can capture just your EE screen, and not the whole browser window.

On the Mac it's built in; hit Command + Shift + 4 and select the area you want to capture.

The site I use is TinyPic, which requires no registration but has an annoying Captcha check every time you upload an image.

Last edited by jakery (Apr 21 2011 9:28:49 am)

Fir3Fli3

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Re: Screenshots

The program you need is Gadwin Printscreen, it automaticly saves your printscreen and you can choose if you only want to printscreen your active screen
Some examples are in my smiley making guide (old): http://eeforumify.com/viewtopic.php?id=3652
It's exact, and very easy to use!
After you got the picture, upload it at: imgur.com and your done!

Last edited by Fir3Fli3 (Apr 21 2011 9:34:12 am)

Laecinth

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Re: Screenshots

Chimi, I followed your guide, except with Imgur instead of Imageshack. When I try to copy paste the picture from this: http://i.imgur.com/tFo1K.png to the forums, it won't work. (no option to paste) yet when I get to paint, it pastes fine. What's going on?

JadElClemens

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From: Colorado, USA

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,559

Re: Screenshots

Press the print screen button, or prnt scrn, sometimes. Paste it into paint, or some other image editing program. Go to a site like tinurl, imgur, etc. Upload it, post the link here in img tags.

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Laecinth

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Re: Screenshots

Thank you everybody, but I owe it mainly to Chimi , so he gets 1+ rep

Last edited by Laecinth (Apr 22 2011 2:17:59 pm)