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need some input on how to make screen shots and to post them here in ms flights.net thanks
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If you're referring to in-game FSX, simply hitting the V key should produce them in your FSX directory.
If you want to take print screens, you should have a print screen button, and the best way to crop it from there is with Microsoft Paint.
Once you have the JPG or PNG of the screenshot you like, you can share it on here in one of two ways. You can directly link to the picture by uploading to a website like www.imgur.com, and clicking to upload your image there, and once it's done uploading, you'll be given a direct link to the image.
Come back to the forums here with that direct link, and you can start making a post, and by all the text formatting options you have for your post, there's also a little image icon, you can click that and input the direct link URL that you have copied.
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If in Free Flight:
1. Choose your aircraft and camera positioning carefully. And select your weather and time of day. For example, one nice effect is a low sun behind the camera, dark clouds behind the airplane, and rolling the wings for maximum effect.
In both Free Flight and Multi-player:
2. Ensure any toning and shading add-ons like ENBseries and Shade are switch on or off as required.
3: Switch off red lettering (ctrl+shift+L and shift+Z) unless you specifically want it there. Switch off the menu bar (Alt). Consider going to full screen (Alt+Enter).
4. Take your screenshot by hitting the V key. If you have plenty of disc space, take several!
5. Go find the screenshots. These are in BMP format (big files) and normally in your My Pictures\Flight Simulator X Files folder. The file names shows the date and time you took each shot.
6. You may want to edit the shot(s). This might be for several reasons. You may have extraneous stuff in your pic. Your subject may be very small. The raw pic may be too big to be seen easily on a forum post on all browsers. You may want to reduce the file size. You can do some or all of this using an image editor such as PhotoShop or GIMP. Rectangular pics with sizes of 1000 pixels wide x 600 pixels tall work well in the forum. (Square pics work best as Teamspeak avatars.)
7. Go to the website http://imgur.com and either drag your finished pic from your Windows Explorer or click on Upload Images > Computer to select your image. Follow the fairly clear instruction until you get to upload. You will eventually see your pic on the left of the screen and a bunch of links on the right. You want the second link, under "Direct Link (email & IM)". Click on the document icon at the left of that second link and it copies the URL to your computer's clipboard.
8. In your forum post type the following: [img] [/img] and then put your cursor in the middle of that (between ] and [) and paste the URL from your clipboard. Click on Go Advanced and preview to see what it will look like.
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As usual an excellent tutorial for capturing screen images and posting them on the forum. I predict it will become the defacto reference used in the future whenever this question is asked again.Originally posted by Storm View Post
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going to be awhile got to figure it out using gimpComment
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Step 6 - using an image editor - is often desirable but it is optional! However - for what it's worth - my personal opinion is that it's useful to learn image editor basics.
If you use imgur, it has an upload limit of 20 Mbytes per picture - which should be fine for all FSX snapshots in BMP format. Moreover imgur will automatically translate your larger BMP files for you into a PNG file - another image file format - usually a much smaller file size but with no loss of picture quality. The link it gives you will be to a PNG file that it is hosting for you. It's that PNG file that appears in the forum post.
See here: http://imgur.com/help/uploading
However, one other thing that an image editor like PhotoShop or GIMP will do for you is allow you to change file formats at will. The native BMP files that FSX saves for you are huge and often unwieldy, but at least they are exact in quality. PNGs are also exact but are usually much smaller because, unlike BMPs, they attempt to use file compression where possible. (Different formats each have their own strengths and weakness and are useful in different circumstances.)
As well as PNGs, an image editor will allow you to save your snapshot in the familiar JPG format. JPGs can be anything from low quality and a small file size, through to high quality and a large file size, with many other choices between those extremes. This can be useful when emailing your pictures, and a combination of small file size, low quality and additionally small dimensions height and width is useful for thumbnails.Comment
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imgur seem to have shuffled and renamed their links a little. If you click the little document at the left of the "BBCode (message boards & forums)" line, it will copy the link, together with the [img] [/img] tags, to your clipboard, so you don't have to type them and risk getting them wrong. Then you just paste your clipboard to your forum post. See here:Originally posted by Storm View Post
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