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Frankychan is offline Frankychan
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Screenshot help Tired of ads?

Hey guys...a moment of your time for this poor poor man.


I've been trying to make some screenshots of my games lately and they are all fudging up. I hit the "Print Screen" button in game, and when I open up MS Paint and "Paste" the screen is black with only a few images here and there.

Lesse, I have MS Paint and GIMP. Is there anyway I can get it so i can get a good screenie or is this a lost cause?

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Paste the screenie while SMAX is still running.
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Indeed - and run your desktop in at least as good colur depth as SMAC.

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so you want me to paste the screenie and save it as .jpg while the game is minimized?
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Inflate your Upload Space

AFAIK, SMAC doesn't let itself be minimized, just sent to the background.
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Do that in a good 256 color editing program.

Either that, or change the color depth from 8 to 16 bit at the desktop while SMAX is running.
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And save it as a .BMP then use PS or a similar prog to change it to a .jpg for the best results.

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I save mine to Microsoft Photo Editor - easily opened while the game is running (hit the windows key, and then select it, and then open a new file and paste it in) Alt/tab returns to the game

I do that with word, too, when I'm logging events in OCC and other challenges

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Okay SMAC has ISSUES with other programs. This is my procedure:
Playing SMAC, find something I want to Screenshot, hit alt-printscreen
Press the Windows button and load Paint Shop Pro
Alt-tab to PSP and "paste as new image"
Save the image as a .psp file (but really anything could do)
Return to SMAC
Quit SMAC, this causes PSP to crash
Reload PSP, open the saved file, resize/edit whatever, save as an optimized JPG or 8bit PNG
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I use photoshop without difficulty.

open it first, then run smacx. take a pic using print screen, alt tab to the photoshop window, file, new, paste the image, save as jpeg and adjust size to 800x600, then jump back to smax.

-=Vel=-
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I use Hypersnap - it takes screenshots from everything .
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