Screen Capture

[4thTimeLucky]

I have a PowerPoint presentation that needs to be in in an hour and I need to put into a screenshot/screen capture of a webpage.

How do I do it?


Huge thanks to anyone who can help.

[I use Explorer and I have Paint.]



Mods: I will change the title to just "Screen Caputre" once the solution has emerged.

[SiN]

Press the Print screen button on your keybo.

open paint.

paste your cap in there. should work just fine.

[Peetster]

What she said.

Once you have the screen capture on your clipboard, you can also just paste it directly into powerpoint.

[The_Dude]

there are shortcuts to printscreen.

if you press SHIFT + PRINTSCREEN it only captures the window, not the taskbar on the bottom.

[4thTimeLucky]

Geniuses. You're all geniuses. Thank you.

EDIT> Next question, how do I chnge the title of the thread on the main forum list. I tried and it only changed the heading within the thread. If that makes sense.

EDIT2> Seems to have done it now. Don't know if it was me or a Mod. Nonetheless, you're all still geniuses.

[hrdwareguy]

/me Changed title of the thread and removed URGENT HELP NEEDED

[darkure]

The_Dude, thanks for that SHIFT shortcut. I knew all about the printscreen but then I always had to go into photoshop and crop out the extra stuff. It will make life a bit easier.

[wakelagger]

The shift + printscreen shortcut isn't working on my WinXP Home computer. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. That shortcut would be very useful to me.
thanks

[wakelagger]

The shift + printscreen shortcut isn't working on my WinXP Home computer. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. That shortcut would be very useful to me.
thanks

[m0j0]

shift printscreen ain't working for me neither professional edition xp

[hrdwareguy]

ALT+Print Screen will capture the current active window only.

[The_Dude]

bah, that's what i meant. sry

[wakelagger]

it works now, thanks hrdwareguy

[gerg01]

you can also use ALT+Prt Scr

[Jack Ruby]

Just never EVER save off a screencap as a 24-bit .BMP. Only the evil and the ignorant do that - use JPEG or PNG instead.

[hrdwareguy]

Originally posted by Jack Ruby
Just never EVER save off a screencap as a 24-bit .BMP. Only the evil and the ignorant do that - use JPEG or PNG instead.

Yep, save them as 16 color images. That's what do for help files where I work. And before you get started, amaizingly when we used JPG files, the help files were larger then when we used BMP files.

[FuddMan]

how can you capture screens from a video?

[Leviathan[NCV]]

Fudd, you can't without a proper video editing program to capture frames. Try nandub.

[The_Dude]

just a suggestion, try pausing it and taking a capture

[losfp]

That should work unless the playing software uses some sort of overlay thing to play the video - in that case you'll just get a solid block of whatever colour the player uses as the overlay colour.

And yes, definitely optimise the image, especially if you are going to send it via email!!! At work (My job involves maintenance of websites) we often get word, PPT etc documents that are massive because someone has pasted an uncompressed bitmap into the document and shrunk them to whatever size they wanted.

[Jack Ruby]

I think if you want to take a screencap of Windows Media Player, all you have to do is turn off DirectDraw acceleration in the DirectX control panel. Don't forget to turn it back on afterwards.

[billcollins]

lot of video programs have a "video acceloration" setting (like IE)... Set that on low and it usually disables the video overlay that prevents you from taking a screenshot.

[Ishmal]

thank you people of the tfp...

that was the infomation i was serching for!!!

now i'm goin to bump this incase other people don't know how 2 do it...

its great for jokes!