How to edit/post a screenshot.

[OxyMind]

I've seen a handful of people who are unable to post/edit their screenshots correctly. I figure I will hear, "Everyone knows how to do this" and you should. If this has already been made, just delete this, I couldn't find it, but maybe I missed it. If I had a digital camera that worked I could make this much more detailed, but I'll try my best without one. Also, this guide is for Windows Xp.

How to edit/post a screenshot

Step 1: ​

Find out what you'd like to take a screenshot of (I'll use runescape as an example). Next find the PrtScn button on your keyboard. For my keyboard the button is to the right of F12,and it also has the words "SysRq" and "Insert" on it. Press the button, and you should see your mouse flash a bit. This is the original screenshot I took for this guide(I downsized it).

Step 2:​

Open up Microsoft Paint. If you are unable to find it, go the start menu, then click on run. Type in the words "mspaint", then click ok, and it should load up paint.

Note: This may not work for all computers, and if it doesn't, paint can be easily downloaded off the internet.

Now that you are in paint, you want to go to the top left, click on edit>paste. Your screenshot should come up across the paint screen.

Step 3:​

Now it is time to edit your screenshot down to what you want people to see, instead of just posting a picture of your whole screen.(This part is fairly simple once you have it down, but it might sound confusing at first).
You will want to click this button in on the toolbox.

Once you have clicked this, your mouse should be shaped like bullseye. You should proceed to drag the bullseye around your initial picture that you are planning on posting. After that you can let go of the mouse, and there should be a dotted line surrounding the picture. Right click somehwere inside of the dotted line, then click copy. Then go up to the left hand corner and click file>new. It will ask you if you'd like to save the changes made to the original screenshot. Click no, then a new blank paint doc should come up. Go to edit>paste again, and your final screenshot will pop up. Go to File>save or save as. Save your image somewhere that you can easily find, such as the "Pictures" folder, or "My Documents".

Step 4:​

Your screenshot is now saved on your computer! Good job, but there is one final step if you'd like you post it on a forum.This final step is called hosting the image, and it can be done through several sites. I prefer to use this one:
http://load.imageshack.us/
Once your image hoster is up, you want to click "Browse". Find your image where ever you saved it and select it. Then click on "host it!", and it should load up a page with several URLS of your image. The one you want for posting a image in a forum is "Hotlink for forums (1)".


Now you have the link to your final image, which you can simply copy and paste into a forum:

Enjoy!

EDIT: this actually did take me some time to make.

 

[david493]

Nice guide, pretty detailed on what to do. If you don't know how to post a screenshot, then I would follow this guide, btw, other programs besides paint work too, like Adobe Photoshot, and Paint.net

 

[Macroman]

Thanks, Nice guide.
Just reminding you that if you wrote this guide for an application, it wouldn't count. As there are already many.

 

[venom]

Great guide, good use of picture's, well detailed! over all I thought it was great!

 

[OxyMind]

Nice, I'm glad some people liked it.

Macro, I doubt I'll put in an app. I just remeber reading a guide on how to do this when I was a noob at a different forum.

 

[lil_melo15]

Yes I might say very nice guide.

 

[juvenilepunk]

Great guide but its been done countless times
I think its even stickied.

 

[Olivia]

Thanks man! I needed it!

 

[Olivia]

Very nice guide btw

 

[RS2Sms]

Pretty good guide. Nice use of pictures.
It may be a little too short though.
7/10

 

[Kimo rulz]

nice guide thanx