Capturing a screenshot, on a Windows 7 PC:
- once you have the desired window displayed, select it,
- press Alt+PrtScn on your keyboard,
- in Windows 8.1, hold down the Windows key (four panes key) and press PrtScn,
- open Microsoft Paint (or similar),
- Ctrl+v to paste the window into MS Paint,
- edit / trim / annotate it as needed,
- Ctrl+s to save it to disk
Capturing a screenshot animation, on a Windows PC:
- use Licecap, downloadable from here: http://www.cockos.com/licecap,
- download and install it.
- once you have the desired view displayed, start Licecap,
- position it over the area you can to capture,
- click [Record], select a destination folder and enter a file name,
- set any desired options,
- click [Save] to start the recording, and [Stop] to finish it,
- you can also Pause the recording and insert an explanatory text frame.
Including a screenshot in your reply
- upload it to an Image Server (e.g. imgur or ...),
- paste the resulting link to your image, surrounded by "[img]"%20and%20"[/img]" tags (no quotes), into your reply,
- or post a thumbnail image, with a link to the big picture into your reply.
Instead, it is better to post a thumbnail image and a link to the bigger picture; that makes reading and replying easier. As an example, using imgur.com (other image servers should have similar mechanisms):
- upload your image to imgur.com ,
- click on the ... menu and select "Get share links", here are the sorts of screens you should see:
>>> https://i.imgur.com/EdggheJ.png - click [Copy] for the "BBCode (Forums)" link for the uploaded image. then Ctrl+c,
- paste it into your post AND ADD A 't' to the image filename to create a thumbnail-sized image,
- paste in the link (to the full-size picture) again AND REMOVE the IMG tags to create a link.
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[img]https://i.imgur.com/P1yDJJ4t.png[/img] >>> [url]https://i.imgur.com/P1yDJJ4.png[/url]
The end result is:
>>> https://i.imgur.com/P1yDJJ4.png
