How do i take a screen shot?

[KingTigerTankCrew]

jsut wondering if anyone could help me find and take srceen shots

[Bonxa]

A classic question. I believe you hit print screen and then there's a screen shot in the CM folder or in the copy/paste memory, can't remember which. You can always check the manual.

[eichenbaum]

If you want to place screenshots in your AAR's, forum posts etc. but you don't know how this example might help you out...

1. Before you start making screenshots is nesecary to have a decent photo editor like PhotoShop or PaintShop Pro. I prefer Photoshop because it as a much better compression filter for JPG (jpeg) files. Adobe Photoshop has a light version that is much smaller in size and doesn't have so many features as the full program : Adobe Photoshop Elements.

See http://www.abobe.com. You can also download a trial version at that address.

Photoshop Elements 2.0 has been used for the examples in this instruction.

2. Find a nice shot in Combat Mission by moving the camera around. If you've find a nice position then press the Print Screen button on your keyboard (also written as Prt Scr). The whole screen will be saved to your clipboard as a bitmap image.

3. Press ALT+TAB to switch to your desktop while CM is still running. Start up PhotoShop Elements if you didn't already.

Select File > New

4. Keep the image size that's displayed in the dialog. This is the size of the content of the clipboard. Give a name and press OK.

5. Select Edit > Paste or simply press the CTRL+V keys.

6. Select Layer > Flatern Image.

7. Select the Crop Tool in the toolbox.

8. Press the left mouse button where the Top-Left corner of the images will start, hold down the left button and drag to the Bottom-Right corner of where the image will end. Dubble-Click within the selection and the image will be cropped.

[eichenbaum]

9. Select Image > Resize to make this image's size suitable for the internet. I prefer 800 pixels width screenshots on eichenbaum's because they can be viewed by most visitors with any problems such as a small monitor size or slow internet connection speed.

10. Set the Width of the image in the dialog. If the option 'Constrain Proportions' is selected the Height will be adjusted automaticly.

11. Select File > Save for the Web to create a JPEG file of this image.

12. Adjust the Quality to 60 or 70%. If you leave it to high your picture will be large in size and displayed very slow for visitors. Try to keep the file size below 200K. If you're planning to use more then 10 images on one page keep the size below 100K. (10 * 100k = ca. 1MB !)

13. Save this file as a JPEG on your disk.

14. The final screenshot could look something like this :

Greetings,

Nils

[ April 18, 2004, 01:15 PM: Message edited by: eichenbaum ]

[GJK]

Are you on a PC or a Mac?

If PC, get Irfanview for copying your screen capture into. It's free and pretty powerful - especially with what you get for the price. As mentioned, just hit "Print Screen" and then open up Irfanview and paste it into a new file. Save it as a .jpg.

[tar]

And if you are on a Mac, then Apple-Shift-4 or Apple-Shift-3 should do fine for the initial screen capture.

[Other Means]

if you're on a PC & just want it quick, just press Print Screen, run MSPAINT (start->run->type mspaint) and in that window press Ctrl + V together.

however for something better, eichenbaum's & GJK advice cannot be bettered.

[junk2drive]

i do it like other means said, and put a shortcut on my desktop for ms paint.

i also minimize by using the windows key between the alt and ctrl keys. windows key + m will minimize all open windows