Screenshots in Posts

[Viva Espana!]

Alright, I'm using Fraps to take screenshots in game. But when I look to put them in my posts for my AAR, it assumes I'm taking a picture from the internet. How do I post photos from my files on the forums?

[Sylver]

Host them on imageshack or something like that, and put the URL to the image between some tags, like so..

[img] picture url goes here [/img]

[Jaketh]

photobucket is the best, dont use imageshack

[Bawha]

photobucket is the best, dont use imageshack

Photobucket will cost you a bucket after a certain upload limit is reached, where imageshack is free!.

So imo, go with imageshack.

[Aeneas Veneratio]

Photobucket will cost you a bucket after a certain upload limit is reached, where imageshack is free!.

So imo, go with imageshack.

Heh, that is why I got 2 (free) accounts on photobucket

[Captian Barbossa]

It's too bad DeviantArt won't let you hotlink to other sites the way photobucket and imageshack do.

And on that note, (I've already asked this question but didn't get a response) How do I take ingame screenshots? Where are they saved? I really don't want to start a thread asking this question.

[Bawha]

And on that note, (I've already asked this question but didn't get a response) How do I take ingame screenshots? Where are they saved? I really don't want to start a thread asking this question.

Dunno what ETW own screenshot key are.
Tho i think i read somewhere something about F5 doing something something!

Otherwise, give fraps a try: www.fraps.com.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Pick one that doesnt give every person who clicks on your pics "The Dumb Test" popup.

[upsettingshorts]

tinypic

And for screenshots the only way I know is Print-Screen then paste into a image editor like Photoshop, which I'm sure we all have and acquired from a retail outlet or online store

[D.B. Cooper]

I used to use Photobucket before I realized that all my pictures were being trimmed to 1024 768 .

[Ondaderthad]

You shouldn't reach your upload limit if you first save your pictures in JPG format. And for most purposes upload them at the smaller sizes.

[Captian Barbossa]

I tried pressing printscreen once, expecting a dialog or text messege to pop up, telling me a screenshot had been saved, but nothing happened.

I've seen a screenshot folder listed in the main empire_script.txt file, but when i go to the directory it mentions, I don't see a screenshot folder. (I checked appdata too)

I find it really suprising (and really poor judgement) for CA not to include a hotkey function for screenshots. EVERY other game I've played has a hotkey tied to screenshots.

Guess I'll have to try fraps, although I've not used it before.

[Ondaderthad]

Nothing wrong with Fraps except that the free version is limited to 30 sec videos and saves screenshots in bmp (very large files) format.

[masliko]

You don't get any msg's with print screen.i don't think.After you have pressed "printscreen" open paint & hit paste.Upload to imageshack and your go.
Also try this for screen captures,recording with commentary etc etc,its really easy to use (toggle on,toggle off)and best of all free!http://camstudio.org/

I have seen lost of tuts done with this.

[Captian Barbossa]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[NONOPUST]

Download Fraps and use it for in game screenshots.

Register an account on Photobucket.com. Upload them there.


As you can see you can choose what Photobucket can do to the file once uploaded.

Also always upload in JPEG format, as its the smallest, but with same quality.

I make sigs for my clan and I literally have hundreds to maybe a thousand photos in my one account and I don't believe I'm close to 25% of the most I'm allowed to have.

[WeardLan]

PrtScr: Free: press once...

Gimp: Free: start, edit, paste as new image

easy as pi..

[NONOPUST]

PrtScr: Free: press once...

Gimp: Free: start, edit, paste as new image

easy as pi..

Not as easy as fraps though, with that method you would have to alt-tab for every screenshot, whereas fraps can save the ss to a specified folder.

[Kake]

PrtScr: Free: press once...

Gimp: Free: start, edit, paste as new image

easy as pi..

MS paint...

[Vor]

I use UOSU for screenshots. Dunno if the site to download it from is still around or not though.