Screen Shots
<p class="default">Screen Shots Notes
09:16 PM, January 16, 2006
This is really easy ... probably no reason to buy SNAGIT (see www.snagit.com)</p>
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<p class="default">also see node below: alt+PrtScn captures just one window.
I do many experiments tonite:
1) To capture only the active window .... PRINT SCREEN KEY. (this works... do NOT hit alt key or shift key!!!!)
(that captures the active window to the clipboard)
2) open PAINT program and do control v to paste the screen image from the clipboard.
4) do save as (I do many experiments with modes of files ... the bmp files, espec 24 bit color are huge ... eg 4 MB:
so only save as 24 bit color if you are not planning to mail it out)
JPG works great ... produced only a 100k file that looks good.
GIF looks quite acceptable and is even smaller ... 70 k.
5) If you want to crop the image ... use the rectangular crop tool then
do Edit>Copy To ... and specify a file ... only lets you save as a bmp though ... and they are usu big.</p>