Screenshot programs?

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  1. dreamlorde

    dreamlorde Level III

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    Anyone know of a good one that I can download for free? I've been working on a comprehensive game guide but I need to take pictures of certain games to explain what you need to do in them.
    Thanks 8)

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  2. jfur_x

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    Do you mean a graphics program to paste your screen shots in? If so you can use paint. Just hit the print screen button on your keyboard when you want to take the screen, minimize what you're doing, open paint and press ctrl+v.
     
  3. puzzl3b0x

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    If you want to take a screen shot of the active window, press "ALT + PrintScrn" instead of print screen. This is really helpful!
     
  4. FastBullet

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  5. xiatus

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    Basic one is Print Screen and paste into any paint prog.
    MS paint if you don't want anything special and no dl needed.
    or get Photoshop and have a bit more fun :p
     
  6. looneytoon

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    HoverSnap is a very good screenshot program, you can get it from snapfiles.com you can chose whether the screenie is gonna be bmp, gif, jpg, or png. I highly recomend this
     
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    i used to use photoshop, but found paint better.
    you can always edit them after on photoshop, for presentation and such.
     
  8. xiatus

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    For speed yea paint is better. sometime i have multiple progs running...loading up cs is a pain.
     
  9. rapidah

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    if i want to select a part of the screenshot, i put a rectangle around it, open another ms paint, and paste it on there to save
     
  10. Xiaoset

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    MS Paint is so basic for it, but it's so easy, I'd just stick with MS Paint
     
  11. moose

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    its very easy and i thought it was cntrl alt prt scrn?
     
  12. looneytoon

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    you see, what i love about hoversnap is you can skip all the MS paint editing because you can select what part of the screen you want to take a screenshot of, so you dont have to go to ms paint, and do all that editing, but its always good to remember the ms paint method for taking fast screenshots, it really comes in handy, and hoversnap is very very small and it doesnt take much memory
     
  13. Sammy

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    there is no such thing as a screenshot program.. just use print screen button.
     
  14. Angelika

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    He's looking for a program to paste and edit his screen shots in, that was established by the other posts. It helps to read all or the majority of the posts in a thread to be sure your adding something pertinent and new to it.
     
  15. FastBullet

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    Fraps ;) You can ever make movies :p
     
  16. Cyhan

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    Well everyone seems to have covered everything.

    Paint for speed, Photoshop for editing and such like :)
     
  17. alex123kill

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    Yea, Paint is for speed if you do not want to wait of if you do not own Photoshop. It is better to us PS because it is better qauilty...
     
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