Taking Screenshots with Vista and Windows 7

[stankirby]

I stumbled onto a Windows tool today.

 

"Snipping Tool"is found under Start Accessories.

 

It is internal to Windows Vista and Windows 7.

 

If you Google it I believe you can download it for Windows XP.

 

To set it up:

1. go to the OblivionLauncher.exe and select options, then Windowed mode.

 

2. Then launch the Snipping tool.

 

3. I use OBSE to play my game.

 

4. If I find a screen I like, I use ctl-alt-tab to open the Snip.

 

5. Then I use the mouse to set the area to capture.

 

6. Then I just "save as" xxx.png, or gif or jpeg or html.

 

Screenshots are very good.

 

 

Hope you find this useful.

[slygothmog]

I stumbled onto a Windows tool today.

 

"Snipping Tool"is found under Start Accessories.

 

It is internal to Windows Vista and Windows 7.

 

If you Google it I believe you can download it for Windows XP.

 

To set it up:

1. go to the OblivionLauncher.exe and select options, then Windowed mode.

 

2. Then launch the Snipping tool.

 

3. I use OBSE to play my game.

 

4. If I find a screen I like, I use ctl-alt-tab to open the Snip.

 

5. Then I use the mouse to set the area to capture.

 

6. Then I just "save as" xxx.png, or gif or jpeg or html.

 

Screenshots are very good.

 

 

Hope you find this useful.

 

I use Snagit ( there's a free trial version ), it works very similar to the snipping tool but with a larg selection of capture and editing features. I will put a link here for any that are interested.

 

http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp