READ THIS: How to take screenshots: The whole nine yards.

Here's the entire process of taking and posting a screenshot, from start to finish.

1. Press the "print screen" button on your keyboard to take a screenshot of whatever your screen is showing. Works for both in-game and in world editor.

2. Now you can do this in two ways depending on which image editing programs you have. I will show you how in Photoshop and MS Paint.
2a. Photoshop: Open a new canvas, and press "ctrl+V". Your screenshot will then appear on your canvas, and you can edit it however you like. Save it as a jpeg file.
2b. MS Paint: Open Paint, and press "ctrl+V". Paint is very limited in its editing power, so from here, you can just save it as a jpeg file.

3. Now to post your screenshot, start a new thread in this forum, or whenever you post, and towards the bottom, there will be a small "attach file" field. You can either enter the path of the file you want to upload, or press browse and search for it there. Then press "submit new thread" or "submit reply" and your screenshot will be displayed below your message.

Now that you know how to take a screenshot, please don't start any more threads asking how. Pheonix, maybe you should sticky this.

what's the "print screen button"?emote_sweat
P.S. sounds like a very good tutorial. I didn't know how.:D

Print screen should be next to F12. Every keyboard is different but every keyboard has a print screen button.

Ohh0_o now i see it:gsmile: tnx:D

You should probally add that one has to crop their images. Im not calling anyone stupid....but...some people dont know this yet.

When I press New (In Photoshop Elements, I dunno if people will be able to follow me), it will show me the exact size, pixel by pixel, and so when i press OK, it gives me the thing, and I can Crtl+V without being cut off.

When you hit print screen in Warcraft or the WE it *magically* generates a .tga screenshot in Warcraft III\screenshots you clowns.

Here's a proggy that can equally magically convert all .tga's in the folder it's in to .jpg's.

Windows print screens to the clipboards are much more convienent and useful IMO.

Not really because you have to go and edit it before you can make another one, whereas you can just make as many as you like and edit afterwards if you just use the screenshots dir.

windows uses the Print Screen button as a copy button for the screen...
for WE however, it saves the img and u can find that img at ur warcraft screenshots folder

Cropping images are good to reduce the size of the image and taking out the tool bars and things. In Photoshop you can click the top left button that looks like square, circle or any other one and then click on the corner area of your image you want to crop and hold and scroll to the opposite side of the area you want to cut out. Let go and then press delete. In MS Paint it is sort of the same thing in except it is the top right button in the toolbar. This is pretty simple and most of you probably already know how to do it but for the few who don't, there it is.

this whole time i've been going into the wc3 directory, goin in screenshots and opening it when i culd hav just copy-pasted it?? cool...
btw:: why is it "printscreen" when it actually just saves a picture of the screen? :>

Uh, I put up 3 SS but I can't get them into my post or delete them, they are just sitting in my attachments


any help?

I'd guess that the "meaning" behind Print Screen is that you could think that it "prints" what's on the screen at that very moment to a file in the computer - similar to what a printer does, just it takes something you give it and prints it on a paper.

And, yes, Wc3's screenshots gets stacked somewhere, but don't use the "rawmaterial" - it's big, and got alot of unneccessary information (toolbars etc)

i highly recomend Microsoft Image Composer
easy to use, uses a very easy crop system thats ajustable so you dont have to worry about doing and undoing, and you can save it in a very fine amount of formats.