I want to be able to take a snapshot,such as "print screen",and save it as a jpg,I guess in order to put it on website,such as this one,or others to show what's going on. How can I do this ?

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Press the Print Screen key to capture the whole screen
Press Alt-Print Screen to capture just the active window.

This copies the screen into the clipboard, and you can then paste it into your image software such as MS Paint and then you save it to a file.

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Yeah, that sounds about right, lets see what happens.

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and include the entire URL in the body of your question, not in the attachment area.

Edit: Picture removed.

To see how this looks in my message, click on Reply With Quote at bottom of this response.

Next. If you can't get your attachment/picture within the 50KB range, but you have a web site, you can post pic there and link to it by posting URL. Such as

OOooohh ! Beautiful !!

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That's wonderful! Thanks - Do you have anymore like that?????

Dee

What is this a picture of? I love it! Wish I could get wallpaper in this pattern.....

What about a Bug Swarm?

I Forget, what is stopping you from saving this picture in your PC, and after selecting Stretch in your Display/Desktop settings use it as your wallpaper?

In my MS Paint program, I think it will only save to bitmaps,is there a special version,or another program to do this ?

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No, when you click on Save or Save As, click on the down arrow of Save AS Type to choose a different format.

http://www.geocities.com/one_human/advanced.html#mspaint_fix

BTW, all I had to do to get my MS Paint to save a .jpg and .gif was to open Paint and drag a .jpg to it, save it as a .jpg and do the same with .gif.

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Paint will save it as a jpg file. Just click on save as and at the bottom of the "save as" box it says "save as type" Open the drop down box and click "jpg import". It will then be saved as a jpg file.





http://www.bobbalogh.com/majorityofone.html

Balo, what Paint will "save as" varies from installation to installation, so what you say isn't true for everyone. It may have something to do with whether or not you have Office installed, but it certainly does vary.

Insert text here

Thanks Paul, since Paint works that way for me I assumed, silly me, it worked that way for all.





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Marie, I resent the picture you've posted here of my wife.

Well, just fine old dude, you might just as well have the other pic

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How's this ?

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Attachment #1, (jpg file)

No, that's bad, unless you wanted us to see a picture of an X, LOL.

Edit: Be sure to right click, properties, size.

Aahh ! Wisguys,ehhh ?
Yes the X was what I wanted you to see,only the P and Desktop didn't load ! LOL

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Attachment #1, (jpg file)

LMAO @ Roni ! How'd you do that ??

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The magic of Photoshop

How's this ! Wweeeeeeeee !!!!

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Roni, I laughed so hard I almost had a cow, man!
Er, that's a mental image I don't need at this time of the morning .

Dee, here are two more of my favorites...

I love those - are they your design? If not, then where are you getting them??? They're terrific.

Dee233

Here's a couple I picked up in a minute surfing the Caligari Gallery. They may not be to your taste, but you never know what you'll find there.

Thank You! I'm a real jpeg junkie and am always looking for pictures and sources so that I can add to my collection.

Dee2332

Ok,let's see if this works !

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Attachment #1, (jpg file)

Wasn't this pic like this before?

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It's OK for you to post this but if I had of posted it there would have been a flame. LOL.

Seriously, when I do a print screen, it shows the whole desktop and when I do alt-print screen simultaneously it still shows the whole desktop, rather than just the open window. How do I get it to do the right thing????

You have to press Alt and while still pressing Alt, then press PrtScn

Duh! Wouldn't this be simultaneously???

Dee-
*sigh* No I didn't make those pics & before my hard drive crash I had backed-up all my important files except for my favorites so I no longer have the link to site. As I recall they were having a contest and you could vote on the entries. I had a dial-up connection at the time so I didn't get to save very many pics. My computer usually froze every time I accessed the site *sigh*.

Bob-
Are you referring to the difficulties 56ker's will have opening this picture heavy post? That did cross my mind but me and Mike were on a roll, oh well.}> I'll be removing my pics later on tonight.

Re your keyboard problem, were you ever able to use that method with current keyboard? Is the window that you're trying to copy the 'active' one before you do alt-print scrn? Have you tried reinstalling keyboard software/drivers? If all else fails try this handy free utility http://www.pc-magazin.de/datatip/common/dtt/file.php3?areaid=58&fileid=353

Sorry for sending you to a non-english site, but the original creators of program no longer offer the free version.

For a translated version,try here:
http://translator.dictionary.com/url_f.html?lp=ge_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pc-magazin.de%2Fdatatip%2Fcommon%2Fdtt%2Ffile.php3%3Fareaid%3D58%26fileid%3D353

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I got the translated version just fine. Only trouble is that it did not tell me anything.

Or, I am too dumb to get it, which is a distinct possibility.

Bob-
Hehe, that translation does leave a bit to be desired.

Anyway if you keep Print Key in the System Tray (or click on a short-cut) it will take the place of the Print-Scrn key. When you press print-scrn the Print Key program will open in its own window. Then you press 'Rectangle' on the menu, Print Key will disappear and then you left-click & use the crosshairs to outline the area you wish to copy, unclick, Print Key returns, select Copy then you can paste your selection to Paint ETC. There's more it can do but that's the basics.

Here's the page for the Pro Version...
http://www.warecentral.com/

I was talking about talking about women.

I have a microsoft internet keyboard pro. Think it might be the keyboard which makes both ways alt-print screen and print screen alone produce the same results??

Mike1-
Waaaa, your link took me to a blank page. German can be a difficult language to translate, eh

Bob-
Well Mike1 is not a woman and no one flamed him. He started it...did not, did too, did NOT!

Nah, I doubt it could be the keyboard brand. I've never met a keyboard that couldn't do alt-print scrn. And I've met all of 4 keyboards in my entire life.

(sotto voce)
did too!

Montana,it may take a few seconds for it to translate,depending on your speed,but you could go to dictionary.com and they have a translator link where you can translate a whole web page,otherwise read on !
PrintKey2000 5,03 German
Column: Druckertools
Date: 30.06.1999
Size: 1,035 KB
Downloads: 5753
Version: 5.03

Description:
With print keys you produce responding paper printouts of the current picture ski min stop in the hand turning. Before the actual printout you determine the desired printing options. To the selection among other things color farb-oder a black-and-white mode, centring of the Screenshots on the page as well as output quality are. Print key makes it possible also to store Screenshots as file in different formats on the fixed disk. The in such a way produced diagram files can be continued to process with any picture processing program. Print key supports the Windows 98 multi-screen mode. (Freeware, German)

Author contact: coolmen@bluewin.ch


printkey.exe downloaden

back to Druckertools


upward

To download click on downloaden,hehehe But I guess you'll have to do it from the german page !

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Marie - you got Yahoo mail

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My desktop is too large to post, but you can see it here in Angelfire

Roni,that is awesome,I can't even see it all in (F11) Full Screen !
Is that from your 27" flat computer monitor screen ? LOL

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That's my 21" inch Sony monitor, I love it, at work I have a 22" but mine is better

no, i have same KB, and alt-printscreen does what it is supposed to for me

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Lovely images folks.. great thread.

t_bare

Anyway it's funny, I just lately got obsessed with screen capture programs,my new project,lol. And for those interested here is the best freeware one I could come up with, it works great !
http://www.webattack.com/get/mwsnap.shtml

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Well I see some of us are still in a sharing mood (thanks Bob G) so I rifled through some of my backups and found some more wallpapers. We will now ensure that this is one of the longest loading threads on PC911 .

BTW, Roni, Bug Swarm is such an apt name for that first pic I think I'll change the title. Oh no, wait a sec, it's already named Bug Swarm }> .

Yomama, right click on any picture and "Save Picture As..." then do what Roni said.

Mike1, you really should try the 30 day free trial of Print Screen Pro. It allows you to copy other shapes ie circles, oval, not too sure if it does free form shapes.

Wait I'm not finished yet!





This one I recieved via email...just flat out funny...

Only 2 kittens would 'say' that...

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And thanks Montana,those are definitely keepers !

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Yeah but what about these?:

Wallpaper 1

Wallpaper 2

Wallpaper 3

Wallpaper 4

Wallpaper 5

Number 4 is now my new wallpaper. It's too large for my 15 inch screen though. It's flopping over the sides

If you can set Stretch in Display it will fit the size of your monitor.

Er, the flopping over the sides was a joke Roni.

sotto voce
(apparently not a very good one if I had to explain it)

Beeyooouuuteefuull, Roni !, I don't know if you've seen my other post about one of your wallpapers,but would it be nosy of me to ask you how big your monitor is ?

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21" of beautiful Trinitron Sony monitor.

Sweeet !!!!!

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This is my monitor

Hmmm, nice. Didn't know they made one with dual inputs. Now you've made my wish list longer.

Yep, there are several monitors with this feature, and it is very cool, I switch sometimes to a second computer I have, so I can surf the Net if my main one is scanning the hard drives or defragging

I did the Print Screen key to the clipboard...that's all I can do...I can't paste it to Paint at all - what is missing? I don't know how to do any of this stuff.



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Lonnie, sometimes we just don't get something so a tool that works for doing the same thing is very helpfull. I understand how to do all of the above but I still use such a tool. It's a free product called Screen Print from www.softwarelabs.com. It resides in your System Tray and has all of the fuctions you will ever need. In spite of the fact I know how to use all of the above, I still use Screen Print.

Thanks Sonny, but isn't there an easier to use/understand program somewhere...this is too complicated for me to understand.

Never mind...guess I will just have to forget about doing this stuff...goes along with the rest of the territory.

Thanks anyway.

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Sir Winston Churchill: "Never, never, never quit."

Try again:

1 - Press the "Ctrl" key and HOLD IT

2 - Press the "Prnt Scrn" key

3 - Release both keys

4 - Open Paint

5 - Click "Edit"

6 - Click "Paste" and there you are.

IMPORTANT: If you have an Office Keyboard or other keyboard with an "F Lock" button, be sure that it is on if not the "Prnt Scrn" key wont work.

tried that, but where do I get it from? paste from where? have no idea where it was saved to,etc.

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it is not the "Paste from", is the "Paste" that is located above it, between "Copy" and "Clear Selection"

Paste From is the only option I have...nothing else.

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You have to press PrtScn before you have that option.

Roni...that is what I did, after the PrtScreen...went to Paint,etc...only option is Paste From, NOT Paste ! I am on daughter's computer right now (previous replies from my computer), and this is the same option on HER Paint...grrr.

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But do you have that option grayed out?

From the bottom where 'Paste From' to almost the top, everything IS grayed out...that is the problem

EDIT: in the Edit section - this is only available:
Select All and Paste From...rest is grayed out

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That means that the problem is that for some reason the picture is not getting into the Clipboard, remember you only have to press PrtScn (You do not need to press Ctrl+PrtScn) maybe your keyboard is damaged.

It is in the clipboard...how do I get it to Paint?
keyboard can't be broken...2 different keyboards (hers & mine - hers is HP, mine is eMachines)and BOTH can't be broken.

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Lonnie
have you tried Alt+PrtScn ? Ctrl+PrtScn doesn't work for me either . Print screen alone does as does Alt+PrtScn .
Jane

Jane

mine works with Alt+PrtScn, Ctrl+PrtScn and also PrtScn alone!, so all this time I've been pressing Alt just for nothing

What Keyboard do you have Lonnie? a Standard one?

PrtScn will capture everything in the Sreen.
Alt+PrtCrn will capture the Active Application in the Screen.

eMachines, with all the doodads (that I don't use at all).
Daughter's is HP with whatever those HP keys are.(she doesn't use hers either).

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That's transparent to the end user, when you press PrtScn the image is saved in the Clipboard, you don't need to open the Clipboard to do that but if you want to do it, go to Start, then Run..., type clipbrd and press OK, the image will be there also.
But I'll say it again, you don't need to be concerned about where the image is, just press PrntScn, Open Paint, go to Edit, then Paste, if the program ask you to enlarge the size of the picture say yes.

Sheesh, what is up with that Prt Scrn key? Backward Bob also has a problem with his key.

Lonnie, can you copy and paste anything at all into Paint? Try right clicking on Roni's signature, select Copy, open Paint & click on Edit. Is the Paste option available this time? If so then we'll know it's just your Prnt Scrn key and not some other problem. Still won't be able to fix original problem but er, um, whatever

did that (roni's sig, etc)...now what? it's in the paint...what now.
both of the prtscreen buttons CAN'T be broken...grrr.

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hmmm.


Lonnie

oh s**t !

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*just fell off my chair*...don't ask what I did, I can't remember ! but it wasn't as instructed...sheesh

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Well, whatever you did, it worked

Nah I don't give up so easily, What's that secret method you used? If you don't send me a video I don't believe you