"How To" Screenshots: fire away!

[maxd]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a new section for the FAQ wherein I want to detail the wonderful world of screenshots.

• What applications should one use for screenshots, or not?
  
• What caveats and gotchas should players know?
  
• Any tricks and tips from the Casinomeister faithful?

So post your "takings screenshots" suggestions here, or questions if you've got 'em.

I expect this will evolve over time so I'll update the questions and answers as need be.

FWIW, I will incorporate Simmo's info posted here: How To Create A Screenshot.

 

[maxd]

Let me chip in with a few of my experiences:

• some casino packages seem to hijack the PrintScreen button (under Windows) so you can't always count on that technique.
  
• a good screen-grab application can be invaluable: I've used
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  for years now and swear by it. Not free though, need to buy a license for it ($$).
  
• if you're into freebie apps
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  is good, though it is not as full-featured as something like SnagIt (nor as bloated!).

 

[brianzz]

I use snagit for vids and screen caps, the best part is you can set it up to screen cap and auto name and auto save so you don't even have to bother with going and pasting and saving and naming yourself. You don't necessarily have to buy it per say, just look around, it can be had. Very good program tho'.

 

[WonderingSpirit]

Windows vista has a built in snip tool. Thats the easiest way to take screenshots as you have full control of which areas you want to take screenshots of. There is also a marker to highlight part of the screenshot.

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You can choose rectangular screenshots or freeform like this

 

[bb28]

Gadwin's Print Screen is a good freebie.

 

[love2winalot]

Hiya. Also, a lot of people do not know how to get their screen shot to appear on message boards. I use Photobucket. You go to their site, and the set up is free. They host all your pictures there for free.

At photobucket, you hit upload, and browz, to get the picture off your pc you want to upload. It takes about 5-10 seconds to do. Then, move your cusor over the picture, and boxes appear underneath it. Right click on, "link" and copy. Now come here, and click, "paste" and Weeeeeee.

 

[catrina m]

I have mentioned this before but Gadwin printscreen is free and a small download.

Works perfect everytime.

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[BLUEWATER]

I already know how to do the screen shot. How do I do I post in the forum? Can you please give me advice? I have one ready to post the paint from my desktop.

Thanks

 

[KasinoKing]

I already know how to do the screen shot. How do I do I post in the forum? Can you please give me advice? I have one ready to post the paint from my desktop.

Thanks

When you post, look below the typing area for a button marked "Manage Attachments".
Click on that & then it is all pretty clear.
You need to make sure your picture is the right size first or strange things can happen!
I have a guide

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.

I hope it's a good one!
KK

 

[maxd]

KK's thing sounds good. Here's a "once over lightly" guide through the posting process:

Start like you would for any other post, scroll down until you see the "Manage Attachments" button:

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This will open up the 'Manage Attachments" pop-up:

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Repeat steps 1: and 2: for each attachment you want to display (note that there are file dimension and size limits). When you're done click on "Close this window" (step 3).

 

[maxd]

Somewhat related to the original topic:
"Best Free Screen Capture Utility" round-up (

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) at

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.

 

[felicie]

Here goes nothing.....[Felicie adds: just following the instructions so I could do a screen shot]

 

[Smokeycasino]

The crop tool should be mentioned.

 

[chayton]

Another thing worth mentioning - if you just hit Print Screen you print your entire screen, including your destop and other windows that may be active at the same time.

If you hold down the ALT key and then hit the Print Screen, it only captures the top 'active' window. So if you're playing at a casino and ALT+PrintScreen you get only the casino - if you're playing at a casino and get an error message window and use ALT+PrintScreen you get just the error message.

 

[legenden1]

I´m having trouble managing attachments due to lack of space (so it seems anyway). I have checked my profile and deleted old attachments from there and when I go into "Manage attachments" it says "0 of 97,7KB used". That´s too small to attach even one JPEG-file. I can see some of my old attachments lined up in this area but when I select them all there are no "Delete"-button. What can I do?

 

[miket2112]

Same here

I am having the same problem. Can't free up space to post new screen shots. The old ones can't be deleted from the drag and drop menu in the attachment manager. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Slotaholic]

I´m having trouble managing attachments due to lack of space (so it seems anyway). I have checked my profile and deleted old attachments from there and when I go into "Manage attachments" it says "0 of 97,7KB used". That´s too small to attach even one JPEG-file. I can see some of my old attachments lined up in this area but when I select them all there are no "Delete"-button. What can I do?

Well im having the same problem,cant find any delete button when i try to manage my old uploaded files.

Slotaholic

 

[sfcat]

Can haz delete button

I ran into the same problem, would love a delete button!

 

[LaHutti]

It would really be a shame, if people start deleting screenshots from the screenie section. We'd get a long list of nothing in there. Better cough up some more space CM

 

[suomikala87]

It would really be a shame, if people start deleting screenshots from the screenie section. We'd get a long list of nothing in there. Better cough up some more space CM

I think people are running into this problem only when they are still classified as Newbie Members as they have very limited space available. When you're classified as Full Member or up the problems with space are over as the limitations disappear

 

[LaHutti]

I was thinking it had to be something like that too

I think people are running into this problem only when they are still classified as Newbie Members as they have very limited space available. When you're classified as Full Member or up the problems with space are over as the limitations disappear

 

[kidgloves]

testing....

 

[sscrabble]

testing

 

[randomiam]

heres my bet

i use mwsnap it lets me take a pic or the whole screen just a even square or any area its freeware and simple to use
it you want to take a pic and not have to edit the casino name or user name out later it saves that time
also it has no bullshit bundled with it

www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

 

[Wild Reels]

for anyone using win7 there's plenty of good stuff built in now, if you want a quick and easy tool of course you can use the print screen button, along with that there is also a small program called snipping tool that's able to screen shot a specific area which you can drag and drop out across the screen, saving you the trouble of editing the shot later on, useful for removing parts of the screen you dont want to share.

The program is normally in the Accessories folder,

you can read more about the various "snips" available here

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[maxd]

Firefox has advanced quite a bit from the days when I first posted this thread. If in-browser snaps are good enough for you then Nimbus Screenshot (

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) has served me fairly well recently. It drops your screenshot (visible part of the page, all of the page, selectable region, etc) into a basic paint-style editor for mark-up and then saves to their own "cloud" storage or locally, as the user prefers. Being a browser plugin it has its quirks but overall it's pretty respectable.

On Linux I've been using Hotshots which seems fairly full-featured and robust. It ain't Snagit -- nothing is really -- but it gets the job done. It is Qt-based so it's dead easy to install from the Software Manager if you are using either KDE or LXQt (aka Razor-QT) desktop managers. Not sure how well it performs in a GTK+ desktop manager -- Gnome, Mate, Xfce, LXDE, etc -- but knowing Linux I'd say you're probably fine as long as you don't mind the install process adding a little Qt bloat to your GTK+ environment. As I recall Enlightenment has it's own screenshot tool. I'll hazard a guess and say you're probably best sticking with that, whatever it is. In my experience -- admittedly a couple years old now -- E's stability can easily be compromised by adding Qt and GTK+ apps.

 

[TheSlotsMan1978]

How to post a screenshot

Hi all can anyone help I would like to post a screenshot but I don't no how to can you please help thanks all.

 

[Tirilej]

Maybe you can find some tips in this thread.
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/how-to-screenshots-fire-away.27799/?t=27799

I'm bad at explaining that kind in English

 

[KasinoKing]

Hi all can anyone help I would like to post a screenshot but I don't no how to can you please help thanks all.

Quick version:
Hold ALT GR and press PRNT SC.
Open paint & press CTRL+V
Resize to 680 x 480 pixels
Save as a JPEG (VERY important!)

Long version (including step-by-step instructions, screenshots and how to upload to CasinoMeister):

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Hope you've got something great to show us!

KK

 

[quber]

easier way if you have win 7 or 8.

open up the 'Snipping tool' just search it from the start button and drag the cursor around what you want to screenshot then just do 'File_save as' and it will save as a jpeg and should be the right size to post.

in the post just click on the add image button, hover over the tools and it will say which one to use.

 

[Tirilej]

easier way if you have win 7 or 8.

open up the 'Snipping tool' just search it from the start button and drag the cursor around what you want to screenshot then just do 'File_save as' and it will save as a jpeg and should be the right size to post.

in the post just click on the add image button, hover over the tools and it will say which one to use.

Can you please tell me in Swedish what a 'Snipping tool' is?
English is fine too
Maybe you can take a screenie of it and show me

 

[clubworld]

Can you please tell me in Swedish what a 'Snipping tool' is?
English is fine too
Maybe you can take a screenie of it and show me

Hi Tirilej,

To capture a snip


Open Snipping Tool by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Snipping Tool, and then, in the list of results, click Snipping Tool.

Click the arrow next to the New button, select Free-form Snip, Rectangular Snip, Window Snip, or Full-screen Snip from the list, and then select the area of your screen that you want to capture.

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It is very easy to use so when you play with it you will get an idea how this work.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,
Karolina

 

[Tirilej]

That won't help much since I need the Swedish word for Snipping tool

I'll try and google for it. Thanks for trying Karolina

Edit: Found it. Skärmklippverktyget is the Swedish name. Now lets see if I can find it.

 

[clubworld]

That won't help much since I need the Swedish word for Snipping tool

I'll try and google for it. Thanks for trying Karolina

Edit: Found it. Skärmklippverktyget is the Swedish name. Now lets see if I can find it.

Skärmklippverktyget ??? WOW ...

I'm sure you will find it as long as you on windows 7 or 8 it should be under start menu.

Good luck and have fun exploring!

Regards,
Karolina

 

[Tirilej]

Skärmklippverktyget ??? WOW ...

I'm sure you will find it as long as you on windows 7 or 8 it should be under start menu.

Good luck and have fun exploring!

Regards,
Karolina

I do have Windows7, but apparently not the right version so no tool for me

Edit: That was a lie. I found it

 

[Journeyman]

i post my screenshots with this. works very well.

 

[clubworld]

I do have Windows7, but apparently not the right version so no tool for me

the Ctrl + PrtScn is also easy to use then you can paste it to paint / email / word etc. I personally use this short cuts as find it easy.

 

[Tirilej]

the Ctrl + PrtScn is also easy to use then you can paste it to paint / email / word etc. I personally use this short cuts as find it easy.

I edited my post if you scroll back up. I found it.

Now I will start to practise it too

 

[clubworld]

I edited my post if you scroll back up. I found it.

Now I will start to practise it too

That's great! Good luck with it, it is very useful tool too

 

[maxd]

This thread seems like a natural continuation of the one in Screenshots-O-Rama. I trust no one will be overly inconvenienced if I merge the two.

 

[thebigs]

I really have no idea what i am doing wrong.
Even when i shrink my screenshots to a minute size they are saying they are too large when i upload them so i cannot seem to post them today.

 

[Tirilej]

I really have no idea what i am doing wrong.
Even when i shrink my screenshots to a minute size they are saying they are too large when i upload them so i cannot seem to post them today.

Is it really jpeg then?

 

[thebigs]

Is it really jpeg then?

I am saving as jpeg.Is that wrong.

 

[Tirilej]

I am saving as jpeg.Is that wrong.

No that is what it should be, so it's strange you can't get it down to the right size.
I know how to but can't explain in English. Read KK's link to his side. he explains it well.
I think it's on page 2 in this thread.

 

[KasinoKing]

I am saving as jpeg.Is that wrong.

JPEG is correct.
Sounds like your problem could be the "huge white border" one.
If using Paint always look carefully to ensure the area outside of your actual shot is light-grey, not white.
If it's white, then this is part of your picture and will consume extra memory space when you save it, and it will be too big to upload.
My guide explains how to avoid this. It's very simple once you know to look out for this problem.

KK

 

[BETAT]

I really have no idea what i am doing wrong.
Even when i shrink my screenshots to a minute size they are saying they are too large when i upload them so i cannot seem to post them today.

Have you perhaps met your attachment allocation (ie you've maxed out the space you're allowed here in CM to post screenies/images)? Check under your settings, look to the left, scroll down, miscellaneous/attachments. Click this, you'll see a green/red bar up top. If you've maxed out your allocation, delete a few older ones to free up some space. This might be why you can't up any more images. Gl.

 

[PrivatePike]

Post more JPEGS

Hello All,

How can I post more pictures?
My profile says I have nearly use 750MB

I have only posted 10 pics APPROX and are around 100 KB each

I have seen post alot more Pictures that are the same size/quality.

Thanks in advance

Al

 

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