Screenshots

PresidentMike · February 13, 2003, 01:17

How do you get a screenshot? Thanks.

wilbill · February 13, 2003, 01:39

Ctrl+Print Scrn. Then paste it into Paint or another graphics program and save it.

Skanky Burns · February 13, 2003, 06:03

Preferrably in .gif or .jpg format. Avoid .bmp, as that creates a very large file.

Alex · February 13, 2003, 09:08

And .bmp files will only be posted here as attachments, not the image itself.

Sheik · February 13, 2003, 15:59

Whenever someone asks this I always post the below program:

Alex · February 14, 2003, 08:15

hm, ok. So what does this program do?

Jawa Jocky · February 14, 2003, 10:16

I like irfanview. Do the google search I'm too lazy to find the URL. Don't forget to resize your image to 600x450.

Sheik · February 14, 2003, 16:54

The program takes a screenshot when you drag the little white box off and into a window. When you start it you will see a little white box and when you click it and drag it to the window you want to take a snapshot of it will prompt you to save the image.

Crousto · February 14, 2003, 17:16

Thanks for the tip Sheik, that's a great tool. But the zip file you posted didn't work for me as it missed a DLL. I downloaded it here instead, which worked.

Konquest02 · February 14, 2003, 17:28

Quote:

Originally posted by wilbill
Ctrl+Print Scrn. Then paste it into Paint or another graphics program and save it.

Why Ctrl+PrintScrn. A normal Print Screen will do. In fact, this combination of keys won't do anything except a normal print screen...

--Kon--

Jahi · February 19, 2003, 03:10

i just hit the print screen key meself.. never needed to use a combo.

bongo · February 19, 2003, 10:12

I don't know if ctrl+prtsc does more than PrtSc alone but alt+PrtSc takes a screenshot of the active window. As the active window happens to cover the whole screen in civ3 you will never see the difference

I'm a big fan of irwanview myself. You can't actually draw with it but you can view and convert between almost every format imaginable. Check www.irfanview.com

planetfall · February 19, 2003, 10:49

Here's what I do:

1. start paint
2. start civ
3. play until want game image
4. {print screen}
5. Alt-Tab to Paint
6. Paste, expand window yes
7. click on Paint's dashed rectangle icon, upper right
8. select minimap
9. cut minimap
10. Paint new document
11. paste in Paint
12. save file as ABCD.gif
13. open irfanview
14. open ABCD.gif
15. crop to minimap
16. save as ABCD.gif, replace yes.

And you will have a nice small gif image that will not take up much space on the forum and will be easily viewable. The reason use irfanview is because paint leaves too much white background as a part of the image. I suppose I could just paste to irfanview, but got used to using paint. A problem with paint is sometimes your original expanded image, i.e., before first cut, gets confused and you may need to repaste the image.

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