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shrimpee says:

During GSW we were having people who did not know how to take screenies at all and missed some great moments because of this, or didn't get to take screenies when they made their own meetings.

WELL, FRET NO MORE. HERE IS SHRIMPY'S TUTORIAL ON TAKING SCREENSHOTS.

Look at your keyboard. The key that you're looking for is 'Prnt Scrn' or 'Print Screen'. It is usually placed with the SysRq key on standard PC keyboards, in the upper right corner right before the number pad. Some computers/keyboards do not have a print screen button, however, and if you're unable to find it then please send me a picture of your keyboard and I will try to find it. If there is no print screen button I have no idea how to take screenies. D: If anyone has any idea how to take screenies in any other way but this, feel free to post them.

Here is where it is on most laptop keyboards.


Here is where it is on most PC keyboards. Some keyboards also have it right over the number pad.


OKAY. You have located your print screen button, have you? Now you can take a screencapture! What happens to it, however? It's just like a 'copy' tool: the information is still there, but you have to 'paste' it into a program. I generally use paint because it comes with my computer, but if you have any other programs then use them.

REMEMBER: ONLY PRESS PRINT SCREEN ONCE OR ELSE YOUR PREVIOUS PICTURE WILL DISAPPEAR. If you know you're going to be taking multiple screenies in a row, have multiple program windows and save them as you go.

Once you have the picture you can edit it as you like!

Any questions post here. If you can't find your print screen button, post a picture here and we'll help you find it. If anyone knows how to take pictures of a computer screen (similar to print screen button) post those here and I will add them to the first post.

Well, nice tutorial for the PC's.
Now.

Who has a MAC out there? i know I do!

How to take MAC screenies!

Press

COMMAND+SHIFT+4
After that, there will be a little cross as your mouse. With that, you click and drag over the area you'd like to take a screenie of.
The picture will automatically be saved to your Desktop.

Just incase if you are maybe new to Mac (even thought all buttons are quite seen...) Here:





~For a FULL PAGE Screenie~

You press

COMMAND+SHIFT+3
(It will also be saved to your Desktop)

:3

hope this helped! ^^

shrimpee says:

You have to cut it and paste it into a new Paint document. Cut out the part you want and leave the rest.

Well... do u have mac? Cuz im sure all MAC users should know what the "Command" button is. O.o

EDIT: HOLY CRAP! I totally just noticed. thanks for pointing that out... haha... command s**t... xD

Guess I'd better post here too XD

You should take screenies as PNG, not JPEG (for tip on how see below pics!). Don't use JPEG it messes up the graphics (JPEG is really only meant for photos, as in camera).

Compare these two, it's the same but one in JPEG and the other in PNG:

JPEG:


PNG:


Big difference in quality! The JPEG algorithms are for photos not for graphics, it gets confused by high contrast stuff like text.

(btw. ignore the red and blue edges on the text in the PNG, that's my comp doing weirdness XD)

WINDOWS SCREENIE TIP:

A really really great tool (for Windows, sorry I don't think it exists on Mac) that simplifies screenshots a lot is Cropper. It's much better than PrtScr + paint and stuff, I use it all the time! If you download it, please follow the instructions on that website for proper installation smile

Easiest is to just start it, then right-click and "hide" it so it goes into the task bar. Then, if you've set it up properly, just press PrtScr for screenshot or even better, Alt-PrtScr for capturing just the active window, and wham it automagically saves the pic on your desktop! If you set it to PNG in the setup it will even be in the proper format XD

Yay, ready to go biggrin

And you can take several shots in a row too, they'll just end up as several pics on your desktop (or wherever you decided they should go, but I find the desktop is easiest).

Ａll Windows version come with the really basic MS Paint. But, I recommend you get Cropper, see my previous post about it. It's a lot easier to use.

bugging? what did it do? it works like a charm for me smile

well as long as you save as PNG it's fine i guess xd