Trial screenshot

[Naki]

My first screen shot so hope this works Spitfire over appropiate scenery. Seems very fuzzy how do get rid of the fuzz? Yes I know the cursor shouldn't be there as well. Anyway just a trial shot. Won't win any prizes with this.

[Alex]

Not too bad for your first shot, and obviously you have got hosting sorted out at well.

The 'fuzz' is there because you have uploaded this picture in the form of a '.gif' file, which has low quality unless it is quite small. Next time try and upload a '.jpg' image, which has good quality, with a relatively small file size.

Alex

[Ian Warren]

COOL!
Alex , extra info Thanx

.. yeah myself new at 800X600 screenies , easier way off doing is just ajusting your Display settings to above , only for your planned foto shoot -
Heck thats all i do - then return orginal display set .

[Naki]

Thanks Alex - will have another go

Cheers

[Naki]

mmm - jpeg this time but still fuzzy - although looks a bit better Maybe some more editing

[Alex]

Hmm, what are you using to capture your screens, just the old Print Screen button?

Alex

[ZK-MAT]

I'll add some tips too

Go and get IrfanView. It's free and in my opinion the quickest, no frills image editor/convertor that uses next to no resources.

Open IrfanView and press C. Select what options you want. I suggest:

* Foreground window (so you get just what's current - NO taskbar etc, more importantly if you use a multi-monitor set up it only takes a pic of one of them)
* Hot Key = Ctrl + F10 (So it doesn't do something like turn one engine off or go in slew mode in FS... I seem to get that all the time when multiplayer chatting ...)
* NO tick in include mouse cursor
* Save captured image as file with default file name (capure_date month year time etc)
* Choose destination directory - I have one entitled "Screen Grabs"
* Save as JPG format (although if I want a good quality screenie I often use Tiff which gives a 2meg file size, then convert to jpg later)

* Click 'Options' Change quality percentage to say 95%

* Press Start, it minimises to taskbar.

* Press CTRL + F10 to take your screenies.

You can use the program to crop them, resize, convert from and to 18 different file formats, sharpen, blur, and my favourite, batch convert/resize and rename many files all in one go. This is a must if you have 20 screenies you want to reduce to say 800 x 600 with a bit of sharpening and save as sequential file names.

Yell out if there's any queries.

[Naki]

I am using Screenhunter - thanks Mat will give this a try - a bit late now

Cheers

Naki

[Alex]

I use YaFSScreen, hotkey is just the Print Screen key, has always worked well for me...

Alex