Screen capture

Hi,

Just thought I would use this thread rather than start up another. When I post my screenshots on here they are small images how can i make them big? I am using Photobucket to store my shots by the way.

do you save them (and upload them onto photobucket) as bmps? the file sizes of bmps are far far too large for photobucket – so photobucket resizes them to get them under the image upload size limit.

if you do upload them as bmps, save the images as jpegs (preferably using something other than MS Paint becuase the quality of what you get is abmissmal). Use Photoshop or Paintshop perhaps. using image editing software, like the two mentioned, resize the images (to 800×600) so that we can see them clearly. save them as good quality jpegs, and then upload them to photobucket, and hopefully voila.

also, check the album settings on photobucket making sure that the max upload size is 512kb, not 256kb. if the image file size is over 512kb, photobucket will automatically resize them.

hope that helps

Hi,

Just thought I would use this thread rather than start up another. When I post my screenshots on here they are small images how can i make them big? I am using Photobucket to store my shots by the way.

Screen capture

For the two folks that responded to my question, thank you so much. The PrtScn worked for my purposes now. If I need higher quality graphics I’ll go with the software.

🙂

Fsscreen is your answer – although it saves the images as bmp’s, there is a simple freeware program called irfanview which will batch convert the images to jpegs, with high quality as well. try and avoid using MS Paint as the program is well known for saving your images in shoddy quality. see if you have something like photoshop or paint shop as they save the images in better quality.

i believe that there are screenshot programs that will save the images as jpegs, but i don’t know at what level of quality.

with fsscreen, you just run the (VERY) small program in the background and when you want a shot just press the normal print screen button, and fsscreen will save the image into a folder (the folder that the fsscreen program is in).

to get it: http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=fsscreen.zip&CatID=root

hope that helps

Ok – when you’ve got your shot press “Print Screen” and then go to any image editor even (dare i say it) MS Paint and press past (CTrl+V). Crop off the edges and copy the new selection. go to save as select type as JPEG and voila. I know they’re are programs to capture images but I can’t seem to find one. Over to you…