Topic: Screen Shot Help (Read 3570 times)

sekim · « **on:** March 21, 2002, 02:16:02 pm »

Can someone tell me, and others, how to do a screen shot?

KingSparta · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2002, 02:20:02 pm »

you can use a Program Like www.cpic.com there is a 30 day trial

and Pressing "Print Scrn" key will get you a screen capture.

there are other free programs you can use.

Gatobrit · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2002, 02:23:13 pm »

Pressing Alt|PLS|PrintScrn will get you a screen shot of just the active window.

Gatobrit · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2002, 02:25:10 pm »

I should point out that Alt-PrintScrn and PrintScrn will copy the screen shot to the clipboard.

sekim · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2002, 02:40:08 pm »

KingSparta & Gatobrit

Thanks for quick reply. Next Page

LCtheDJ · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2002, 03:07:53 pm »

Hey thanks a lot from me too! I knew about PrtScr but not about Alt-PrtScr; that will save me from a lot of cropping.

P.S I've checked Miriam-Webster ( http://www.m-w.com ) and can NOT find "alot".

KingSparta · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2002, 03:49:03 pm »

alot is right after allot

alot = alot
allot = more of alot

Michael Horton · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2002, 04:24:40 pm »

it's in alot of dictionaries, just not that one

and thanks for the screen shot tips--I had no idea

KingSparta · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2002, 04:31:21 pm »

this is one of the screen shot programs my company "Orkin" uses

It Is Called SnagIT By TechSmith Version 5.2 I think Is Current

Tweaker · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2002, 04:44:20 pm »

Another alternative is to go to www.nonags.com It's a site of Free Software with no nagging screens from the software you download. Under Free Software there's a section called Graphics \ Screen Capture Tools. Look for a program called MWSnap. Free and works great!

Severian · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2002, 05:16:52 pm »

All of the above is so. If it happened that you were wanting a shot of a fullscreen DirectX thing like a game (that sniper shot you put through your best friend's forehead, for example), there's a utility called HyperSnap that works real good too. A lot of the standard screen capture utils don't provide such functionality, dunno if the ones y'all mentioned do.

(A lot = a coupla less than alot)

Scronch · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2002, 05:32:02 pm »

I use PrntScrn for routine one-shot captures. I use SnagIt for looped captures within engineering macros.

Scronch

sekim · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2002, 05:51:06 pm »

Ok, many good ways to do this. Next question- how do some of you paste these shots in the forum here? There was a topic started by 'Kell' and zrocker suggested a screen shot so that we may be able to help. Also this may be handy, at least in my case, for odd beta happenings. Not to mention the occasional shot of "lime green espionage smacking turpentine table marshmellows."

Severian · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2002, 07:01:58 pm »

You gotta compress it to a web-friendly format like GIF or JPEG, and then post it to your friendly neighborhood web server. Then you just stroll into Interact and use the img tag to do it. Like (img=http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/images/jukebox/header2.jpg), but using square brackets instead of the parentheses like I just did, would give you the picture of the MJ logo, as so:

Thus you would use the address of your screenshot, and you're good to go.

sekim · « **Reply #14 on:** March 21, 2002, 07:20:05 pm »

Severian

I turned my image into a GIF with photoshop, not a problem there. However posting it to my friendly neighborhood server is losing me. Sorry, I try to solve most of this BS out myself, but sometimes its just easier asking for help.

Severian · « **Reply #15 on:** March 21, 2002, 08:04:03 pm »

Sure. Wasn't that many years ago I was baffled by the concept myself. Have you ever posted files to a web server, do you have any access to a web server? Surely your ISP must 'give you 1MB of web space!'; they all seem to nowadays.

sekim · « **Reply #16 on:** March 21, 2002, 09:13:01 pm »

Actually, they do and it is 5MB. I started to check on that after it sunk in for a while. I guess I should activate it one of these days. Maybe tomorrow, make that later today. It is getting kind of late. Thanks for your patience.

Mike

Severian · « **Reply #17 on:** March 22, 2002, 08:07:24 am »

OK...so you're all good now, or did you need further information?

sekim · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2002, 08:15:58 am »

Severian

Hi, I did activate the page but still seem lost for setting the directory to my image. Talk about generic. Next Page

Severian · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2002, 08:27:45 am »

Not sure what 'activated the page' means in this context, but whatcha need to do is grab your bad self a freeware File Transfer Protocol program (FTP) and send that image file up to the web server via the instructions provided by your ISP. They would have to have given you an FTP address and stuff like that, some basic connection information. They may have even given you a program or a utility to do it. You toss that connection info into your FTP program and it should allow you to connect and then probably just drag and drop the image from your local directory to the remote one--uploading it. After upload, it's available at the directory your ISP tells you it is. Commonly the way these ISPs do it is they give you a directory that's actually your user name, so your address is probably something like http://www.ispofmachinehead.com/~machineheadsusername. Assuming that's so, then you'd just use (img=http://www.ispofmachinehead.com/~machineheadusername/machineheadsimagefilename.gif), but in square brackets of course, and your image appears here on Interact.

You may or may not have a tilde in your address anywhere. I just have seen it that way many times. Bottom line is, your address is whereever they tell you your web page is gonna be.

sekim · « **Reply #20 on:** March 22, 2002, 08:40:54 am »

I'll have to check on the ftp. I think there is a free version that came with the page. In my personal page set-up there is an option to enable or disable the page. After about three and a half years with the same provider you would think I could have checked this out sooner.
Admitted slacker.

once more

Severian · « **Reply #21 on:** March 22, 2002, 10:17:59 am »

So you're on the point of doing it. To demonstrate, here's your page background posted in Interact, simply by linking to its address, just like your page does:

sekim · « **Reply #22 on:** March 22, 2002, 10:33:33 am »

Getting close. I installed an ftp utility and tried to transfer my .gif but it doesn't show up on the page. I'll have to play with it some more.

Severian · « **Reply #23 on:** March 22, 2002, 11:11:35 am »

If it did transfer correctly, and you see it on the remote server window or whatever in the utility you're using, then all you're screwing up is the http address. What's your image filename?

sekim · « **Reply #24 on:** March 22, 2002, 11:46:21 am »

Severian

I think I messed up somewhere with that utility. But I don't think I need a utility such as what I downloaded. I have ms web publishing already installed on this machine. Let give that a try first and see if it works. By the way the image is called screenshot.gif if that is any help.

Easyrider · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2002, 12:11:10 pm »

MachineHead

I downloaded the program that Tweaker said to try.

Not sure how it all works, but I just used the full desktop shot.
Than I saved it as a jpg and open my photo program and cropped the picture. Than save the image

Go to interact and follow the instructions in "posting help" for image

after the = sign put the drive\directory location\file name
c:\image\dsp.jpg
make sure and use the brackets and img=

Severian · « **Reply #26 on:** March 22, 2002, 12:30:16 pm »

(img=http://personalpages.tds.net/~zrtm/screenshot.gif)

Must not have uploaded it yet. If so, the above line would work, if put in square brackets.

Easyrider, the image you tried to post is busted because you can't link to images on your local drive. You've got to have them being served up by a web server. It's got to be a web address, in other words. Not a local path. YOU may be able to see it, but nobody else does.

Easyrider · « **Reply #27 on:** March 22, 2002, 01:39:39 pm »

Severian

Boy that was dumb!!!

Thanks for the feed back.

Never had any use for personal web page.
Contacted my ISP, I am suppose to get 5MB.

I'll will try than!!

Boy that was dumb!!!

sekim · « **Reply #28 on:** March 22, 2002, 02:11:10 pm »

KingSparta · « **Reply #29 on:** March 22, 2002, 02:36:38 pm »

Change ( to [
Change ) To ]
(img=http://personalpages.tds.net/~zrtm/screen.gif)

sekim · « **Reply #30 on:** March 22, 2002, 03:00:35 pm »

KingSparta

You must have just got that. It was already up before I even got here. I changed a couple of things from my previous attempt. So I think I'll give it a try.

Strange, I did use the brackets and still can't get it. I even copied and pasted from your link below.

KingSparta · « **Reply #31 on:** March 22, 2002, 03:05:31 pm »

make sure you have the correct path

sekim · « **Reply #32 on:** March 22, 2002, 03:26:31 pm »

Correct path, as in harddrive path? Remember you are dealing with a VERY technologically inept person. Next Page

At least I figured out the little smiley face dudes.

KingSparta · « **Reply #33 on:** March 22, 2002, 03:45:17 pm »

>> Correct path, as in harddrive path?
HTML link

sekim · « **Reply #34 on:** March 23, 2002, 05:35:29 pm »

I'm so happy I could $#!~. Great big THANK YOU to everyone.

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