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Victoriafla

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi..I'm using the infraview that someone posted here. Thanks for posting the information on how to get a screen cap, but how do I get rid of the player screen?Everytime I hit the alt. print screen I get the picture but also the real one player, well part of it. Thanks.

SunshineVickyFla@aol.com

Mosessupposes

Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Vicky, here is the answer to getting rid of the Real Player screen around the screen cap by using IrfanView:

1. Open the picture you saved in IrfanView

2. Put your mouse arrow over the picture.

3. Push down on the left mouse clicker and a + (plus) will appear over the screen cap. If you drag the + (plus) you will see a rectangle appear.

4. Everything inside the rectangle can be saved and everything outside the rectangle can be cropped out. So practice where you place the rectangle.

5. After you are satisfied with the location of the rectangle...go up to the "Edit" command on the top of IrfanView...Click "Edit" and a drop down menu will appear...look for "Crop"...click crop...everything outside the box will
disappear.

Hope this makes sense.

Mygetaway

Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How do you save more than one picture at a time to the clipboard? Or how do you view them, if you have more than one??
Thanks for all the great advice BTW..
(Even though I have a nasty 56 connection)

Mygetaway

Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 05:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry to be a pest..
As I was playing around, I figured out that if you have the RealOne player at 100%, when you do a print screen/alt cap, you get the black screen. But if you resize your player to smaller, even like 95%, you can get a clean clear pic, without having to change the optimized video display thing... :)

Ryn

Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 11:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmm - that makes sense since you can't click on the different camera's if the video is set to anything but 100%

hey - I have not tried this app - but saw it on Techtv last night.

Pc users only - FREEWARE

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Gadwin Printscreen - looks very similar to hypersnap with possibly some more options.

I will let ya know how it is when I get it downloaded (860 kb).

If anyone else has it already let us know if its worth it!!

Ryn

Friday, July 26, 2002 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok - I downloaded it, it has some things hypersnap doesn't, but hypersnap is a better program imho.

then again Gadwin is free.

Bastable

Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's all very nice.

Now, can anyone tell me how to do it for Macintosh???

Therlin? You out there?

Delilah

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 02:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you everyone! I now know how to use the irFanView but I would like to know how to post a screen cap in the caption contest thread. Can someone help me? Thanks!

Max

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 03:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I'm stumped. I've tried everything mentioned and all I can capture is a black box with no BB image in it.

Are there some settings I'm missing? I've got it set to capture as a JPEG file, but I've tried it as BMP, too. Still just a black box.

Here are my RealOne settings (See I can capture screens, just not the video picture):

RealOne settings 1
RealOne settings 2
RealOne settings 3

Any suggestions?

Sage

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Max, I'm not sure what the deal is with the black box. SpongeBob has the same problem too, and I have no idea what is causing it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Bob2112

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sage,

You could email me some screen caps and I could post them as my own. :)

Max

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well I can get pics from the video playing over the Intertainer service. Difference is it plays in a browser window instead of a separate RealOne player. Here's one:

Vegas

(seems kind of appropriate for BB3, doesn't it?)

I guess it's just a problem with RealOne.

Junifer

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Once you make the screen cap (I make mine with paintshop pro4), how do you get it into a message? Do you paste it?


O O
\||/ . : * : . Jennifer . : * : . \||/
/\ /\

Max

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Junifer/Jennifer,
Click the "Format" button in the top bar on this page. Go to the "Other Formatting" section and you'll see instructions for pasting images. :)

Junifer

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 08:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Max! I think I got the colors down. Although I'm still confused about how the tags help the site to recognize the picture from my computer... ok, here goes nothing, nobody laugh if I spaz out and get this TOTALLY wrong... lol!!!!


Nope, not letting me paste an image, it says I have to upload? Where would I upload to?

Max

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Use the \ image{description} tag (without the space). When you save the message, you'll be prompted for the location of the image file. Just use the browse button to locate the file you saved on your computer. It will get uploaded from your computer to the server and display in your message.

Junifer

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ThanksMax!!! (this is getting fun) Now let's see if I can get the image thingy to work....

Gerry doing his usual morning ritual

Junifer

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 07:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Woo hoo!!!!!!! You rock Max!!!

Mlans

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just wanted to chime-in here to say that I am having no problem doing vidcaps by just RealOne Player and using the Alt-PrntScrn combination and pasting into a paint program - the key is to make sure the image is sized smaller than 100%. It just seems to work. Go figure. Of course, you need a little editing to just get the image.

Here's a sample at 99% (Great close-up by CBS, eh?)

Gerry Exercising - 8/1/2002 7:40am

Victoriafla

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Moses,

Thanks for the info. I did what you said but... after I get that box around the picture... the picture gets huge. I think I need to keep practicing. ANyway thanks for your help.
Vicky

Victoriafla

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 08:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay I am getting soooo confused about pasting the pictures also. I have taken a bunch of good shots, but don't know where to put them. Can we do a photo album or something where everyone can see our pictures? ps. I know I will have a problem because I even tried to D/L my own picture in my profile and it said my picture was to big. I have no clue how to shrink a picture. Sory, I'm done rambling.

Victoriafla

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Max,
I forgot what thread it was on, but if you uncheck, I believe it's optimized player in your real player you will not get a black box anymore. Go to prefernces, then I think it's hardware. Then uncheck the box that say's optimized player.

Vicky

Max

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 08:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw that message, but I can't find anything in RealOne player that says optimized mode. I think maybe that was from R8 or another version of the player. Oh well. I waste less time if I'm not taking screen shots anyway. :)

Victoriafla

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes it is in real 8, Sorry. I'm sure somone will be able to figure it out!

Vicky

Delilah

Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 02:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have been driving myself crazy for three days and I hope someone can help me. I have learned how to make screen caps, how to remove the RP screen, how to crop, resize etc... and my question is - what do I do now?

Which program / type of program do I need to view the screen cap? I save it in a file but I cannot open it, I can only see the preview. I know how to upload pictures and GIFs etc but cannot even open the dang screen cap never mind upload it. I can only open it in the irfan program.

Do I need a paint/draw program or a picture making program?

Sorry if I am rambling! For example, when I upload a picture from the internet, I just right click on it and copy and paste it into my post. Same goes for a digital pic on my PC but I am at a total loss when it comes to screen caps and it is driving me bonkers. Please someone help!