Want tools to appear in screen shots

[angler2229]

I know this sounds crazy, but I would like the tools (cursor, pointers, etc.) in my programs to appear in the screen shots. I do educational "How To's" and the tools are important for my students to see. Right now I have to draw a facsimile of the tools and that takes time.

Thanks for any suggestions!

angler

 

[LokiOfGameSlave]

What are you using to take screen shots? Normally the cursor, mouse pointer, etc... would show in the screen shot.

Using the PRINT SCREEN key on your keyboard and then pasting to either paintbrush or any graphics program will ensure that your cursor and mouse pointer will show up.

Also, you can use a program like SnagIT (which is free). With this program you can select in the preferences section whether or not you want to show the cursor and mouse pointer.

You can get SnagIT at

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

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[angler2229]

I have been using the prnt screen button. The tools never show up in Paint which is where I crop the image.

I will try SnagIT and let you know. Thanks loads!

 

[Chewwie]

I've tried different combinations of Printscreen:
Printscreen, Ctrl+Printscreen, and shift+Printscreen all do the same thing: Puts the entire image of your current desktop into the clipboard (for pasting into Paint, or similar) showing how all of your open apps are layered.

Alt+Printscreen is slightly different in that only the currently selected (top) application is put in the clipboard - so the size varies depending on how you've sized your app before doing this.

All of these methods include toolbars, status bars, title bars, etc. None of these include the mouse cursor in the image.
You could draw a simple pointer, save it in its own little file, then open it in parallel with your image of the app, copy + paste, etc... Or perhaps you'll find a drawing pgm which will let you open .cur (cursor) files. (Paint won't.)

Good luck.
- Chewwie
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[angler2229]

Wow! SnagIT is awesome! What took me about ten steps in Paint is now pared down to only four steps in SnagIT.

It is worth the $40 cost.

Thanks again.

angler

 

[LokiOfGameSlave]

Save yourself the $40. Cut and paste (or just click the link) the following in to you browser Address bar.

http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=&n...s_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

This will bring up the results of a search on SCREEN CAPTURE with with word FREE somewhere in the web page.

There you will find many different utilites that you can use that WON'T cost you money. Why pay when it is readily availabe for free?

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