How do I take screenshots?

[Juli]

I have used the search option, but haven´t found anything. Can anybody please post a link to a tutorial on taking screenshots, or post how to do it here??

[Manoflooks]

press prtSc, beside f12 or around there.
Then, you can either minimize, paste into paint, save, and upload(right away, for every pic), or you could just download Fraps or something before hand, so the TGAs can be uploaded

[Monsieur Alphonse]

press Prt scr whenever you feel, like you need to take a nice screenshot. After quiting the game at the end of a successful session / campaign all the screenshots are stored in the tgas folder (C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\tgas). A program like irfanview or Faststone Image viewer can change the tga files into jpeg and viola beautiful screenshots.

Or you can download frapps. The advantage of Frapps is that it takes the screenshots at the resolution you are playing.

[tuore]

Fraps is a good choice. You can just click and take screenshots. I use it in my AAR, and it has done well so far.

[Don in the North]

what i do is i have the UI (user interface) set to minimal in options, then push f5,f6,f7 once or twice in-battle to toggle the UI between on, popup and off, then once screen is clear i will hit enter to clear any unit selection ive made (removes arrows) ill pause the game with p, put the mouse cursor over the pause sign (the pause sign disapears in final screenshot, if you use the TGAs found in the above mentioned folder path) so that ugly unit status popup doesnt work its way around my mouse. hate that so much. then i finally push print screen a number of times depending on how many different angles ill want to capture.
afterwards ill open up the TGAs, and save them as JPGs or do a batch conversion (easy to find over google) and save myself about 10min of time, then once that is done ill look at the sharp, goodlooking shots ive just made

[Juli]

Yay, thanks! I want to make an AAR, so I need some screenshots.

Is Irfanview freeware? Cause I couldnt open TGA´s with Paint or Microsoft Image Viewer