Inserting screen prints

Tatty_

Hi, could someone help please?

I've seen various people insert images from web pages to explain their replies. How do you do this? I've just tried to copy an exert from a website, to post on the Discount codes forum, but it's just come out as text, not a picture, and it's all over the place

I'm not talking about inserting a link, just a portion of a webpage, to show someone where something is.

dogmaryxx

Like this

Tatty_

Yes, exactly like that! How did you do that?????

gaming_guy

Tatty_ wrote: »

Yes, exactly like that! How did you do that?????

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=412932#post412932

does that help?

superscaper

Tatty_ wrote: »

Yes, exactly like that! How did you do that?????

Actually I don't think that is what you're after as that was simply inserting a picture. It sounds to me more like you want to take a screenshot of a section of the webpage which isn't necessarily already a single picture (unlike dogmaryxx's example). In which case you'd need to literally take a screenshot of the screen (crop it, or if using Vista use the Snipping tool, host it on something like http://tinypic.com/ and then insert it/link it here).

dogmaryxx

Or did you mean

Taffybiker

To take a snapshot of your monitor display, just press shift+PrtScn. This will copy the image into the clipboard. Then just Paste into your application.

Tatty_

Yes superscaper, you're right.

I use Vista and had played around with the Snipping tool, but I don't know what 'hosting' is. I will have a read.

Thanks taffy, but I wanted to copy a small portion of a webpage, to explain something in my reply on these forums.

Ok dogmary, i'm jealous!

fermi

Tatty_ wrote: »

I use Vista and had played around with the Snipping tool, but I don't know what 'hosting' is. I will have a read.

Upload to somewhere like http://tinypic.com

And post like:

[noparse][/noparse]

.

dogmaryxx

I have XP ,NO CLIPBOARD so use paint which is in Vista so will try to talk you through it

1 print screen
2 open paint
3 press Ctrl+v to display screen capture
4 go to file and save in my pictures say
5 go to photobucket website and join,its free
6 select upload from my computer
7 click choose files and double click image reqd
8 wait for image to upload
9 click edit under image
10 click crop above image
11 crop area reqd and save=middle button under image
12 double click thumbnail
13 right click image and copy location exit photobucket
14 write forum post and click insert image button where its reqd
15 paste image location in box ok
16 thats it preview post to confirm image is in situ

Its DEAD EASY really .Somebody will correct i am sure if different in Vista

superscaper

dogmaryxx wrote: »

I have XP ,NO CLIPBOARD so use paint which is in Vista so will try to talk you through it

1 print screen
2 open paint
3 press Ctrl+v to display screen capture
4 go to file and save in my pictures say
5 go to photobucket website and join,its free
6 select upload from my computer
7 click choose files and double click image reqd
8 wait for image to upload
9 click edit under image
10 click crop above image
11 crop area reqd and save=middle button under image
12 double click thumbnail
13 right click image and copy location exit photobucket
14 write forum post and click insert image button where its reqd
15 paste image location in box ok
16 thats it preview post to confirm image is in situ

Its DEAD EASY really .Somebody will correct i am sure if different in Vista

One of the great things with Vista is the Snipping tool that's built in. No need to do any cropping afterwards. You actually select the area to be screenshot. So I think you're pretty spot on, just with Vista you can miss out a lot of the steps.

I'd suggest tinypic over photobucket just because you don't have to bother with signing in/account/privacy settings etc. Just upload the picture and copy the link.