Desktop screenshots (What program are ya'll using?)

[Gshizzle]

Hey guys, What programs are you guys using to take screenshots of your desktop? I wanna be able to take shots of my overclocking results using cpuz-id.

 

[Xyclone]

See that Print Screen button on your keyboard. Hit it to take the snapshot, then paste it into Paint or a more sophisticated program, such as Photoshop. Some people use programs to do this, but I just like using the Print Scr.

 

[Gshizzle]

I tried that and nothing happens when I hit it. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Trevelyan]

hitting print screen just copies an image of your screen to the clipboard. You need to paste it into some program, like MSPaint.

 

[dBTelos]

I use MWSnap.

 

[Ika]

printscreen. when I want to get fancy I use hoversnap.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Builtin Gnome Screenshot. I'll use GIMP for fancy effects.

 

[Gshizzle]

Originally posted by: dBTelos
I use MWSnap.

Thats what I wanted! Thanx guys!

 

[dBTelos]

No problem.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Print Scrn + MS Paint.

 

[dBTelos]

With Print Screen you don't get any options, you can only get a low quality JPEG image, and it takes longer then it does with most programs.

 

[xtknight]

Actually, print screen captures an uncompressed 32-bit bitmap with W2K/WXP. The case may have been different with Win9x (I believe games always got captured at 8-bit). You can decide what to do with it from there (save as lossless PNG, lossy JPG, lossy GIF, etc). And slower? 100 ms. vs 200 ms. maybe? I guess I don't understand. For capturing video you will obviously need to use something other than print screen. Print screen can not capture overlay video, you will need to use other programs for that. Video rendered by the video mixing renderer does not have this problem.

 

[KillyKillall]

SnagIt 7 ..every option you could ever need/want.

 

[professor1942]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Print screen can not capture overlay video, you will need to use other programs for that. Video rendered by the video mixing renderer does not have this problem.

What is an example of overlay video? Print Screen always works for me with movies in Windows Media Player.

BTW use Alt+Print Screen to capture your focused window only rather than the entire desktop.

 

[dBTelos]

"100 ms. vs 200 ms. maybe?"

I mean the process of clicking print screen opening MS Paint from the start menu then paste in the image and save it to the desktop.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: dBTelos
I use MWSnap.

Me too! Have tried many others, but MW Snap is far and away the best. It allows more precise control over exactly what is captured. Full desktop? Almost never!