I've mislaid the instruction and I don't take pictures that often to remember. Can someone explain please.
Focus on the picture you want, be it a tank, a view to an attack lane, etc.
Press the "print screen" button that should be over top of your insert, home, page up trio of buttons.
Open paint, or any other graphics program you have.
Hit paste, and voila!
Cheers!
Leto
... and convert the gamma from Macintosh to Windows (1.22 I think), one of the most annoying thing in CM
You can set up a free hosting account at
www.photobucket.com and upload your pictures to it, then you just link to the pictures in your post using the little "insert image" button found when using the full "New Reply" button....looks like a picture of two mountains with the sun over them.
Suggest this be moved to the "Important Threads" section at the top.
1 - Take the screenshot by hitting the 'Printscreen' key
2-'Paste' it into Windows Paint (or similar prog)
If you intend drawing arrows etc and putting words on the pic, do it and save it onto your hard drive in any folder (eg 'Pictures Folder')
3 - Register at a free image hosting site (I use Photobucket because its smoother than some others,
http://photobucket.com/) and upload the pic into there.
4 - 'Copy' the 'IMG' line of code (or the http line etc for some other forums)
5 - Go to the CM forum and 'Paste' the code into your post.
Note - Although Paint is good, it can only do so much, so if you want to pretty up your pics with fancy tools (Sharpen, lighten/darken, juggle colour tones, contrast etc) use free Irfanview from here -
http://www.irfanview.com/
(And don't forget you can enhance photos the same way too, for example a half-dead dull photo off the net can be brightened up, enlarged and sharpened no end)
PS -And don't forget if you want to permanently keep your pics for posterity,burn them to CD as backups in case you lose the originals if your PC crashes or if Photobucket goes up the spout etc..
Another thing - once your pics are in Photobucket, LEAVE THEM THERE, because if you delete them from PB you'll break the link to every net forum you posted them in and they'll vanish unless the forum locks them in, but not all forums do.
(Also, don't move your pics around in PB or give them new names because that'll break links too)
another free screenshot program:
Link
hint: check your screenshot before you move on to the next one...sometimes trees or such disappear:conf:
PS - I find I get best graphics results if I save the screenshots onto my hard drive as PNG files instead of JPEG, then upload them to Photobucket.
PNG are that little bit sharper especially where you've drawn arrows or typed words and stuff on the pics, but with JPEG the colours are often runny or blurred..
I hear GIF is good too but I haven't tried it because PNG does a perfect job..
I found this on a techy website -
GIF/ JPEG/ PNG
GIF
The GIFformat is one of the most popular formats on the Internet. Not only is the format excellent at compressing areas of images with large areas of the same color, but it is also the only option for putting animation online (unless you want to use Flash or other vector-based animation formats, which typically cost more). The GIF89a format also supports transparency, and interlacing.
GIF files support a maximum of 256 colors, which makes them practical for almost all graphics except photographs. The most common method of reducing the size of GIF files is to reduce the number of colors on the palette. It is important to note that GIF already uses the LZW compression scheme internally to make images as small as possible without losing any data.
Transparency
As I mentioned above, the GIF format supports transparency. This allows a graphic designer to designate the background of the image transparent. This means that if you place a transparent GIF in a yellow table cell, the background color of that image will turn yellow.
Interlacing
The interlacing feature in a GIF file creates the illusion of faster loading graphics. What happens is that an image is presented in a browser in several steps. At first it will be fuzzy and blurry, but as more information is downloaded from the server, the image becomes more and more defined until the entire image has been downloaded. It's important to note that interlaced GIF files will usually be a bit larger than non-interlaced ones, so use interlacing only when it makes sense.
When to use them
Generally, GIF files should be used for logos, line drawings and icons. Avoid using it for photographic images, and graphics which have long stretches of continuous-tone in them. When you're designing GIF files, avoid using gradients and turn off anti-aliasing where possible to minimize the file size.
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JPEG
The JPEG format, with its support for 16.7 million colors, is primarily intended for photographic images. The internal compression algorithm of the JPEG format, unlike the GIF format, actually throws out information. Depending on what settings you use, the thrown out data may or may not be visible to the eye. Once you lower the quality of an image, and save it, the extra data cannot be regained so be sure to save the original.
Progressive JPEG's
Any JPEG file can be saved as a Progressive JPEG. This is very similar to the interlaced GIF. As with GIF, this presents a low-quality image to your visitor at first, and over several passes improves the quality of it. Some graphic editing tools allow you to specify the number of passes before the image downloads completely.
When to use
As a rule, the JPEG format should be used on photographic images, and images which do not look as good with only 256 colors.
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PNG
The third, and newest, file format that's widely supported by the Web is PNG (pronounced Ping). PNG was developed to surpass the limitations of GIFs, and as a means by which developers can avoid having to worry about the patent licenses associated with other formats. PNG was designed to offer the main features of the GIF format, including streaming and progressive file formats. It also provides greater depth of color, catering to images up to 24 bit in color.
It's expected that support for PNG will be widespread in the near future, although it will never completely replace GIF, as it doesn't support animation
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One soft that i do enjoy very much is FRAPS, mostly for it's FPS displaying and video recording functions, it's also an useful Screen Capture Software:
Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.
Several others tools do it too but after trying them i do prefer Fraps because it do everything
behind the scene so one can take several screenshots in a row without any problems (for example, i took screenshots of the whole CMAK bestiary in a row without a single Alt-Tab).
By the way, FRAPS is a payware ($37) and only the BMP format is available in the freeware version (BMP, TGA, JPEG, and PNG in the full version).
If one know a free tool as capable than Fraps, I'll be the first to applaud
Source:
http://www.fraps.com/