How to capture screen shot

[RichKid]

Hello Staybaker,

Many thanks. I clicked on the "Free Download" of Windows Snapshot Maker, waited more than a minute and nothing happened. ???

Meantime, following your latest directions, Rich, here's my latest attempt:
(holding my breath!)

Julia,

That looks great!! Well done.

Now for that blank space (useless stuff) around the good stuff. I assume you followed the steps in post #27 above.

1) Open the file you just attached in MSPaint.
2) If you look carefully you will see six tiny squares (some black, some white) anchoring the image at the four corners and at the midpoint of each side, the solid (black coloured) squares of the six which appear allow you to drag in the border to fit snugly with the image.
3) Just float your mouse pointer over one of those tiny squares and it will become a thin double headed arrow, left click while the arrow is showing (keep holding down the left mouse button) and move the border to where you want it. Do this for each side until the image fits.

OR

3A) Alternatively you can use the 'select all' option in the 'edit' menu and move the whole image to the top left corner using the mouse pointer (four directional arrow appears, left click and move the pointer). Then click outside the dotted area to get out of the selection; now drag the lower right corner of the canvas using the anchor point (tiny black square) to make the borders flush with the image borders. That's it!!

4) Save the file as usual (and attach it again to ASF).

That should show just the chart and other info you wanted without the extra white border, looks much neater.

Now it's my turn to hold my breath, waiting for the finished product. Wish there was some free video utility (like the ChartTV episodes) which would allow me to show this in action- would make it so much easier to show the steps, with a huge time saving too.

PS Believe me Julia, once you've done two or three you'll be doing the whole thing in about a minute.

 

[bullmarket]

Hi GP

Julia,

That worked okay, but it would be better if you could crop off all the white space outside the chart. Unfortunately MS Paint doesn't seem to be able to do that.

Irfanview does it easily though

Cheers,
GP

MS Paint can get rid of all the white space as I described in an earlier post but it's cumbersome.

Any image editing software with a cropping tool will do it easily. From what I've seen on the www there is a truck load of image editing software available. Personally, I like Photostudio but to a large extent they're all pretty much alike - just depends on how many extra bells and whistles one wants to play with

cheers

bullmarket

 

[Happy]

How uploaded images are treated?

Do we have quota for so many kB, like in a number of personal messages, or we upload and forget, with no limit?

 

[Joe Blow]

How uploaded images are treated?

Do we have quota for so many kB, like in a number of personal messages, or we upload and forget, with no limit?

Hi Happy,

There is no per person limit on attachments. The forums keep track of how many attachments every person has uploaded and how much space they take up but there is no storage quota per person.

 

[Sweet Synergy]

Hi Everyone,
I've got an image ready to post but am having trouble working out how to upload an image through the forum editor.
Any help would be much apprieciated!

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Everyone,
I've got an image ready to post but am having trouble working out how to upload an image through the forum editor.
Any help would be much apprieciated!

Try following the instructions given a few posts down in this thread: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2522

 

[Sweet Synergy]

Thanx Joe! .... I got stuck on trying to use the image button at the top of the page instead of using the "manage attachments" further down. So simple when u know what ur doing!