Making an image of what's on the screen...

[utiler]

Hey all, this is my first post after being kicked out of my last home. good to see familar faces..
[yes, i will see if i can find a photo of me and add it to my profile, scary thought!!]

Just wanting to know how you guys take a screen shot of what is showing on your computer? I have long seen people post images of program interface and wondered how it is done.

Cheers, happy to be in the company of friends; just need a good bottle of squashed grapes.....

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[RonS]

Just wanting to know how you guys take a screen shot of what is showing on your computer? I have long seen people post images of program interface and wondered how it is done.
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Hello utiler
Here is a very good app called Print Screen. You can download it here http://www.gadwin.com/download/ and it's free.

[Gaieus]

Utiler,

I have a simpler screenshot "taker" but this one can (ALSO) capture what you're doing on screen:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/aviscreen.html

(for "just" a print screen - which I'm fairly contented with - go to here (find the "PrintSceen" section):
http://www.gadwin.com/download/

[utiler]

Thanks Ron and Gaieus,

I will have a look at them both.....

If only i got table service as quick at the restuarant that i ate at on saturday as you guys have replied.....

Many thanks, I like this place!!

[tomsdesk]

This must be a Mac thing...PC's have a "print screen" key. The snapshot goes to the clipboard now instead of the printer...open any image program and hit "paste". (Do Mac's still have that little bomb icon, or do they crash less now :`)

[Gaieus]

Tom,

The "PrintScreen" program is a very nice and nifty one - better than MS built in features. On one hand.
But I do really like the other (film making) one - especially for little tutorials or something...
Like this one: http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/sphere.avi

(Can you imagine how much I hate to "draw a sphere"???!!!)

[Stu]

Andrew,
there is PDF Creator.
Im finding it good for capturing ACAD drawings for emailing to Clients.
And you can specify Jpegs, Pngs etc if you want to.And its cute being able to make PDFs without Acrobat.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
Stu

[otb designworks]

If you happen to have a Mac, shift/alt/4 all at the same time gives you a crosshairs that allows you to draw a window and get a png. This works particularly well with dual monitors.

[utiler]

thanks all, I am on PC and am aware of the print screen key but it seems the long way around. i have tried Gaieus's recom, aviscreen and it is a little beauty!!! real easy to operate.
Stu i do have PDFcreator but was unaware that it would export to jpeg, only.... you know PDF!!!

thanks guys.....

PS: love this little bar we have found; sshhhhh don't tell the young one's.....

[not registered yet]

utiler,

Something that most folks aren't aware of is that Alt-PrtScrn (in Windows) captures just the current window, not the entire screen.

Personally, though, I like the screen capture utilities that come with PaintShop Pro and CorelDraw. The one in Corel is probably more powerful--more options for capturing specific screen elements like menus and child windows and cursors and so on. It's a stand-alone utility with a taskbar icon and can save images to the clipboard or to disk. However, I prefer the one in PaintShop Pro; it's simpler, with fewer options, but still fairly capable. It pulls images directly into a concurrent session of PaintShop, where you can crop them, enhance them, resize them, and export them in the image format of your choice.

-Gully

[Gully Foyle]

[utiler]

Cheers Gully where does Alt print screen go when executed? did not work for me.....

[not registered yet]

where does Alt print screen go when executed?

To the clipboard. Should work. I just tried it.

-G

[Gully Foyle]

[Baker518]

Gai, I have used your method of creating a sphere, your tut is a bit fast on one or two points. My problem is that my sphere keeps coming up with holes in it, top and bottom. What am I doing wrong?

[Gaieus]

Mike,

One possible cause is that you are modelling in very small scale. When it comes to millimetres, Su tends not to fill very small faces with the follow me tool.

Scale your model up by 10 (or even 100) times (depending on the scale), make the sphere and re-scale it to the size you need.

[Baker518]

Gai, that worked great. Thanks.

Another question, how did you shift the inference in your tut without moving? Is there a shortcut I missed?

[Gaieus]

If you mean the rotate tool, I just place it, click one and before releasing, start pulling in a direction (in this case along the red axis - but it can be any line or guide lie or even a "free" direction). Then release the mouse button (the axis is now closed and won't change) and pick the point of rotetion and rotate.

If that's not what you mean, explain, please.

[Baker518]

That did the trick, much easier than roaming around the screen waiting for it to change then holding down the shift key

Thanks....Mike

[Mike Lucey]

A, give this little utility a try out,
http://toolbox.vmn.net/godownload.php

Mike

[utiler]

Thanks Mike, will give it a chop......

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