Screenshot software

[undercovergeek]

Having discovered that dxtory kills skylines I'm looking for another screenshot provider that saves the shot as jpg

I have one but it saves in png and then I have to convert to JPEG

What do you guys use?

[BanzaiCat]

Hypersnap.

Also Fraps. Fraps is free; Hypersnap is not, though it has a free trial.

[GJK]

Why do you have to convert from png to jpg?  (Just curious)

[GDS_Starfury]

Hypersnap.

you go girl!

[undercovergeek]

Why do you have to convert from png to jpg?  (Just curious)

It how brant likes the shots for the ckII aar and they're much smaller in size

[JasonPratt]

I take most of my screenshots with win-printscrn, which is totally free and already part of Windows; and occasionally with the F12 key in a Steam game when the other doesn't work. Everything which doesn't use those so far (which admittedly isn't much) had its own internal screenshotter.

They save as a png, but when I drop it into Imageshack it converts to jpg automatically. Don't know if I can save it back out of Ishack yet, though -- when I archive my AARs in a doc file, I just use the png's.

How terrible it looks depends on whether I'm downconverting to 800x600 (which I always do) and how far I zoom-selected when modding the photo before sending it to Ishack.

Hypersnap.

you go girl!

Lol'd hard at that!

But you're the sassy one.

[Staggerwing]

Having discovered that dxtory kills skylines I'm looking for another screenshot provider that saves the shot as jpg

I have one but it saves in png and then I have to convert to JPEG

What do you guys use?

PNG is actually quite common. IIRC, you can even upload images here as PNG. Not sure about photobucket. I'll try it and see...

Photobucket:



Direct upload:

[bayonetbrant]

I can take jpg or png, no prob.  I can convert just about anything, but I prefer NOT to deal with .bmp files just b/c they're so damned big they jack up the email inbox.

There's a snipping tool built into most windows version, isn't there?

[jomni]

Having discovered that dxtory kills skylines I'm looking for another screenshot provider that saves the shot as jpg

I have one but it saves in png and then I have to convert to JPEG

What do you guys use?

Skylines is in Steam right?  Then press F12.

[undercovergeek]

Hmmmm - I'll have a look, it's the only one that dxtory, which I like, has caused a problem with

[GJK]

What was that old utility that would let you rattle off a series of screenshots without having to do the "paste+save" routine for each one?  I have it uploaded to my back up somewhere.  You tell it what folder and it saves a sequentially numbered shot every time that you pressed the specified key-combo.  You may of mentioned it upstream already; it's been that long ago.

[panzerde]

I've used Greenshot for awhile now with good results. http://greenshot.org

Works in Matrix games that hate Fraps.

[spelk]

I used to use Snagit, a paid for piece of software - but I found it become bloated and almost unusable - suffocating in its own featureset.

So I dropped back to Fraps for a little while.

But nowadays, I just use the Dropbox client. It captures most screens and uploads them automagically. However, I haven't spent a great deal of time milking screenshots of wargames, like I used to.

[Kushan]

I use BandiCam. I used to use Fraps, but ran into issues when trying to use it to take screenshots in Matrix games.

Has a free version that lets you take screenshots without a watermark, however videos are watermarked and limited to 30 seconds.

[BanzaiCat]

Hypersnap.

you go girl!