Screen shot question

[CAT3508 336]

Have been admiring all the screenshots recently, but I can't seem to take one myself. My old XP comp. had a built in clipboard, W7 doesn't have one. Have tried copy and paste and that doesn't work either. Just how do you take them, and ultimately post them?

Cheers,

Neil

 

 

[mutley 4,487]

Hi Neil

Hit the V key in the sim and that will save the image in your documents / P3D folder.

Then upload them to an image host, get a url link from there and paste that link into your post and it should show.

I am sure there is a post about it in the forums?

Cheers,

Joe 

[brett 2,284]

It's probably the longer way to go but I have always used my Snipping Tool. I fly in windows mode so by using this I can clip the image to size and save as a jpeg which I save to my desktop. From there it is easy to copy them to an image site. I think I started doing this way so I didn't have to change the V key capture which is a .bmp to a jpg before saving to an image site I think that has changed over time though.

In Win 7 it is found in your Accessories folder and I then put in in my taskbar tray for easy access. In the options section of the snipping tool you can also make it save to your clipboard too .

[J G 927]

If you are using X-Plane then its Shift-Spacebar.

[CAT3508 336]

Thanks all for the replies. Using P3Dv4

Cheers,

 

Neil

[UKJim 502]

I use a simple tool called 'Greenshot', it's freeware and you can take a look in the settings to see how you want it setup. Really easy to change things, but I like the capture region function with an auto save to a folder. This saves the need to crop and save in paint etc. 

In terms of uploading and sharing - I store all my images/screens on a GitHub respository. Once again it's free and supposed to be used as code storage/versioning for developers, but I find it good for image uploading

Here is an example (click for full size)...

Cheers,

Edited May 10, 2019 by UKJim