Can anyone please help me (screenshots)

[jeanway]

I am new to computers and i would like to know how do i put a picture on the winning screen shots ? or elswhere...

[maxd]

I'm working on a new FAQ for screenshots but in the meantime have a look at this post from a while back: How To Create A Screenshot.

[LOOKAWAY]

Hi if you want to put a screen shot in a post on this forum, then you click on the manage attachments buttom (scroll down)

Now if you dont want to go through that process or want to post a image on a forum any forum that does not have a manage attachments button or what ever they call it where you are at.

Sign up at photobucket its free, then follow my pics that i will post now.





Then choose your file like this.



Once you double click on a file or choose a file from the drop down menu, it will automaticly download to photobucket.

Then you double click on the image file, shown below.



Then you right click on the image file which will be blue, and choose copy which you can see on the next pic.



And now all you have to do is come back to the web page that you want to put a pic in and right click on the page (where you can type) and click on paste, shown on the next pic.



You can also see from that last pic what the image codes look like.

Hope this does it for you.

[KasinoKing]

Hope this does it for you.

It doesn't do it for me!
Your images are so wide they go right off the edge of my screen, which I personally find very irritating.
Uploading JPEG's is very quick & easy once you get the hang of it, and means you only have to save your shots on your own PC - not host them on some 3rd party site. Much more convenient IMHO.

KK

[brianzz]

It doesn't do it for me!
Your images are so wide they go right off the edge of my screen, which I personally find very irritating.

[LOOKAWAY]

It doesn't do it for me!
Your images are so wide they go right off the edge of my screen, which I personally find very irritating.
Uploading JPEG's is very quick & easy once you get the hang of it, and means you only have to save your shots on your own PC - not host them on some 3rd party site. Much more convenient IMHO.

KK

Hi KK, would you care to explain how you upload a jpeg. Without using the manage attachments button.
Or would that be inconvenient and slightly irritating for your slapstick mood.

[jeanway]

Thanks Lookaway , your way seems difficulti did it thanks to the others who have helped, all i have to do now is remember how to do it again if i have to, thanks for everyones help.

[KasinoKing]

Hi KK, would you care to explain how you upload a jpeg. Without using the manage attachments button.
Or would that be inconvenient and slightly irritating for your slapstick mood.

Why would anyone not want to use the "manage attachments button"?

[vinylweatherman]

It doesn't do it for me!
Your images are so wide they go right off the edge of my screen, which I personally find very irritating.
Uploading JPEG's is very quick & easy once you get the hang of it, and means you only have to save your shots on your own PC - not host them on some 3rd party site. Much more convenient IMHO.

KK

Quite, it can be irritating when using my older PC which only has a standard 4:3 monitor. My new PC can cope, but that is not the point.

In order to host the screenshot on a third party site, one needs to have learned the art of taking the screenshot and saving it to the PC, which comes to KKs second point.

Why would anyone not want to use the "manage attachments button"?

With the JPEG saved to the PC, this part, the forum "manage attachment" function, is the easy bit.

There are possible problems for newbies though, and the main one is down to the fact that casino lobbies exceed the forum standards for images, so you cannot simply take a screenshot, save as JPEG, and upload to the forum - this will fail due to exceeding the standards, however, third party sites will accept the image "as is", and also provide a tool for insertion of your image into a text page, or indeed a forum post. This might make it easier to go down the third party route, rather than working the extra steps to get the image scaled down to forum standards, a process that can be problematic - I have seen images scaled down to the size of a postage stamp, and images scaled, but blurred because quality has suffered severely in forcing down both pixel resolution, and encoding quality to meet dual standards of 640x480 AND a file not exceeding a certain figure.

So far, and on the reccomendation of a previous poster, I have found Photofilter to be the best application for resizing files to forum standards without losing image quality. Photofilter is FREE.
The standard photo editing tool that comes with Windows does the job, but produces a poor quality image as it loses too much detail in the compression.

The standard bitmap file that a straight screenshot takes are way too big for the forum standards, even when reduced to 640x480, this is why saving as JPEG is always being recommended, it produces far smaller files, but loses little of the detail if the optimum settings are used.

Hopefully, the new guide from Max will cover this and more, and lead to a better experience for all forum users, from those who like to look, to those who want to brag

[LOOKAWAY]

Why would anyone not want to use the "manage attachments button"?

I always use the manage attachments button, but jeanway also said "else where"

Yes you can use the manage attachments button on any thread here at CM but on other forums, sometimes you can only put in one screen shot or if its not a gambling forum there may not even be a manage attachments button.