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Stabilis -> RE: ingame screenshot taker (3/16/2013 14:20:33)
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I will tell you how to do this:
[When you want a picture of what you see on your computer screen (monitor), you press the "prt scr" (print screen) button as shown here (click me). If you have a Mac, press command, shift and 3 OR command, shift, 4 at the same time.]
When you do that your computer screen's "look" is saved to your clipboard (like when you copy text it goes to your clipboard) in bit by bit text or ANSI which are close to machine code but you do not need to know that. So that means do NOT copy something right after you press the "print screen" button or else your picture will be lost.
[What you need to do next is save your clipboard data (the place where your picture is saved when you press "print screen") into graphical data like a jpg picture or a png picture. To do that, you need to open a graphical manipulation program like Paint if you own a PC or Paintbrush if you own a Mac OR xPaint if you own a Linux. After you open up a program like Paint, all you have to do is "paste" your clipboard. Sometimes the program has a "paste" button in the GUI itself so if you see it, just press it.]
[Now you see a screenshot in colour picture of what you saw when you pressed "print screen". What you need to do next is save that picture as an image file that anyone can see when you bring it (upload it) to the internet. To do that, go to file:save or file:saveas, and save the picture in folder you can easily reach. For example you can right click your desktop (your main computer screen (this... but do NOT click on the Start Button {the one that looks like Windows}), and when a menu pops up, scroll over and click create:folder. Now you have an easy to reach folder on your desktop! So save your picture that you had in Paint (if you use Windows as an example) into desktop:folder, give the picture a name that you recognize, and save it as jpg, png, or gif in the "format" selection.]
[Now you have a web-friendly photo ready to upload to the internet. Now you can click your browser (IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc etc), and you need to go to an "image file hosting" site. This kind of site allows you to freely (usually) choose an image file that you have on your computer (like the EpicDuel picture that you took) and save it to their "database" to it's own url address. But you do not need to know the details about that stuff. A reliable and easy to use site is TinyPic or if you want, PhotoBucket. I strongly do not recommend PhotoBucket because of it's heavy use of userbase functionality. You would have to spend time logging into an account and navigate through the features of your account just to get a working link to a picture that you want others to see. So I recommend the easy-to-use TinyPic that I linked you to. Once there, all you have to do is:
-click "browse"
-check if the "file type" is "image"
-check if the "resize" (size) is "default"
-do NOT select "share"
-click "upload now"
Once you have done that, you will be prompted with a fantastically easy-to-read captcha (just to prevent bots). Answer the question it gives you and click OK. After a couple seconds you will get a page with a few different links. Click, or select the text in the box that says "direct url" and copy. Now you have a working link to the screenshot you first took for everyone to see! Post it as either a link or img, but I recommend a link for forum rules. Does this help?
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