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Screenshots - Aurora - 24.04.2010
Where do the screenshots get saved?
I just can't find them. :?
- Gumpy - 24.04.2010
Main game folder as TARGA files should be labled as grab0000 and so on.
- whiskyman - 24.04.2010
To my knowledge they're not saved anywhere, just a temporary file. What I do is press the 'print screen' key on the keyboard and then open up your usual image editing program (photoshop, paint etc) and then paste (Ctrl + V) the screen shot into it. Then save it to where ever you want.
Hope this helps!
(obviously my knowledge doesn't count for much!!!
) Oh well learn something new every day, so by doing it that way (gumpy's way) would the resolution of the images be higher than just a screen dump-so is there another way of taking the screenshot rather than just pressing 'print screen'?
- Deutschmark - 24.04.2010
Salute ALL hi ;-)
Gumpy Wrote:Main game folder as TARGA files should be labled as grab0000 and so on.
Gumpy is correct.
Deutschmark
WW1 Project Member.
Several ways to get screen captures - Fireskull - 24.04.2010
Fraps is a fun, free way to get screenshots. You can also use it to record any motion on the screen and all the sound, including your voice by microphone such as in TeamSpeak, in the movie mode. You can assign a single key to activate a mode in Fraps, which makes this very convenient. Fraps will allow you to save images to any folder that you desire or it will save them to the default Fraps folder.
Fraps
http://www.fraps.com/
Several Microsoft programs allow screen capture while they are open. I sometimes use Office PowerPoint because it has almost no hit against IL-2 performance. PowerPoint has a Clip Board built into it. Microsoft programs use the Clip Board to handle the screenshot. Every late Microsoft operating system comes with a Clip Board which can be used for screen captures. I can't remember if Paint has a Clip Board integration, but Paint is used by me to edit the screen capture.
Open the program, whatever it is, which hosts the Clip Board and push the screen capture button combination which can be found in your computer Help section. My HP laptop uses fn + alt + Print Screen (prt sc) to trigger a screen capture. for example.
Editing screen captures There are many possibilities for editing an image that was captured as a screenshot.
I use Office Picture Manager to crop it-the easiest that I found for this. Sometimes I use Office Picture Manager to switch the file format of the image.
Paint is a program which is free and can be used to edit the screenshot, as well as change the file format.
Office PowerPoint is great for adding text to the image and other features. This program allows for the widest possible selection of file format conversions that I have ever seen! It includes a Clip Board to receive the image file upon making the screenshot. Then you would have many options in editing it.
GIMP
This is a free ( donation would be nice ) program with image and motion image editing capabilities. Many of the features are professional quality.
http://www.gimp.org/
There are many other possibilities in programs which can edit a screen capture.
More detailed discussion should perhaps continue in our Screenshots, Images, and Video Forum.
Have fun with it.
Objective: The Final Image File Format - Fireskull - 24.04.2010
One must always keep the end goal in mind for image handling tasks.
FREE Image Hosting
There are several websites which will host and house many of your images for free:
Photo Bucket
http://photobucket.com/
Image Shack
http://imageshack.us/
Flickr This one will also host your videos.
http://www.flickr.com/
YouTube It will store and allow you to publish videos and slide show style presentations of still images.
http://www.youtube.com/
I personally have used all these for IL-2 and keep some images only in my computer.
Intructions
Settle on one or two of these websites as your permanent host for publishing your images. Discover what file format is required by the website. Aim your image editing tasks to comply with their requirements in your final draft images. Look in the Profile (on top of the page) sections of All Aircraft Arcade and other websites to discover what the file format requirements are for them to allow your images to be presented.
I highly recommend keeping a copy of your image in the file format of the image editor, in case you want to make changes or find another use for the image in the future. You can then further edit the image at that time, having kept a backup.
I use the JPEG format through Photo Bucket for AAA, for example. Examples of my images can be seen in the PC Technical Help Forum, "PC Technical Relationship to IL-2: The info helps everyone" Sticky topic at the top, where I use my IL-2 images to tutor users in what to expect with their computer and IL-2 technical enhancements. This way they know what to expect in IL-2 image quality after making graphics settings.
Most image hosting websites will allow you to keep your images there while you transfer them to other websites. Most of the images at All Aircraft Arcade are actually being transfered from other websites which host them. This is typically how the screenshots of IL-2 are done here.
Find an image hosting website which allows easy further editing of your image.
There are many uses for the images and the tools used with them. It's very fun to do and also nice to see the work of other people.
The image below in my signature is being transfered from Photo Bucket at this moment:
- seaniebeag1983 - 24.04.2010
Whopping post there Fireskull
Get In!!!!
- KG64_Cnopicilin - 24.04.2010
Fireskull, I must ask do you have a pocket full of those step-by-step guides? Usefull stuff for everyone.
- Aurora - 25.04.2010
Thanks for your replies!
Images Files very from one program to another... - Fireskull - 25.04.2010
A further clarification is that the Screen capture which is done with the Windows Clip Board is only a temporary file. For example, the Clip Board integrated into my Office PowerPoint is a temporary file. You can click on the screen shot while in PowerPoint and edit the image after it becomes displayed by clicking on it. After editing the image, you use the Save AS... function. While you are in the Save As... Windows box, you select the file format which you would like. You can repeat the process with the same image to save it to other types of file formats.
Because it is a temporary file, a Screen Capture file is very difficult to find and usally not worth the effort. This is a reason why we need to use an image editor with integrated Clip Board or Fraps which has its own system.
Fraps does leave a permanent image file after you push a hot key to save what is on the screen. Simply look in the main Fraps folder and you will see your image files there. You can also assign the saving of images to an external folder, such as another hard drive.
Many image editors work this way or in a similar method.
- ton414 - 25.04.2010
Fireskull thank you very much for your answers so technical and detailed.
I'll work hard