What's that Icon?

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:21 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2012, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?



The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

"Nil" wrote in message ...
On 05 Apr 2012, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?

Captures are worth a thousand words:

http://rednoise.devio.us/temp/IView-cap1.png

#5 Custom rectangle / Region Capture

http://hot-text.ath.cx:1361/thousand...s-captures.PNG
http://hot-text.ath.cx:1361/thousand...-captures2.PNG
The above is a Captures of a Captures at work.....


http://rednoise.devio.us/temp/PSP-cap1.png

Capture Area

On 05 Apr 2012, "Hot-Text" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

#5 Custom rectangle / Region Capture
Capture Area

I don't care. I already have those abilities with both the programs I
mentioned.

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:00 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:21 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2012, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?



The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen



OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

On 05 Apr 2012, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I
can't remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Really??? I can hardly remember wanting to capture more than a client
window, dialog box, or small portion of the screen. The capture is
usually to illustrate some particular detail, and it seems to me to be
a waste to use an image file that's 10 times the size it needs to be.

BeeJ wrote:
OK, step me through putting the captured image where all can see it.

Draw a picture of it, scan it, and upload to one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...aring_websites

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:00 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:21 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2012, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.
PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.
I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?


The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen



OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

I do screen captures in GIMP, and can immediately edit the results,
by "cropping to selection" for example. In the latest version of GIMP,
they've well hidden the capture function. It was easy to find on
my old copy, but you won't know where it is on the latest one.
It's still in there.

Paul

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:11:47 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:00 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:21 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2012, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?



The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen



OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

I'm pretty much the same way. About 10% of the time I want the whole
screen; about 88% of the time I want the active window, and perhaps
about 2% of the time I want less than the active window. The first two
are handled nicely by PrtScn, while the third is handled by dumping
the image into a photo editing program. For me, I haven't seen a need
for a 3rd party utility that does more when it comes to screen caps.

"Nil" wrote in message ...
On 05 Apr 2012, "Hot-Text" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

#5 Custom rectangle / Region Capture
Capture Area

I don't care. I already have those abilities with both the programs I
mentioned.


That is the abilities of both the programs you mentioned.

If was a Capture of IranView doing::

#5 Custom rectangle / Region Capture
Capture Area..

But you know it all Mmm.........

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:00 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:21 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2012, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

PSP 9 works fine for me, too, but the first time I start it up in a
session, it takes 5 - 10 seconds. After that it comes up much quicker.
Irfanview always comes up in less than a second. Also, Irfanview has
more screen capture options. PSP has a few options, like the timer and
multiple capture, that Irfanview has, but I never use those.

PSP is overkill for screen captures most of the time, unless it's
already up.

I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.

What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?



The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen



OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I can't
remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.


Here a how to for Irfanviev::::::::
http://hot-text.ath.cx:1361/irfanview/

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In message , David H.
Lipman writes:
From: "Ken Blake, MVP"
[]
I have both PSP and Irfanview installed here but I've never used
either for screen captures. I just use PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn, which
seems to meet my needs.
What am I missing? What's better about PSP and Irfanview for this?



The ability to select a specific area of the screen, not the whole screen

Have you and Nil ever tried out Alt-PrtScn (rather than PrtScn on its
own)? Like Ken, I find that serves for the majority of my requirements.
I'm not denying that the others are useful occasionally (I have
IrfanView, though haven't used it for screen capture - though I admit
anything I take with Alt-PrtScn will be processed in IrfanView!), but
Alt-PrtScn is there already.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"The point about knighthoods for British actors is to enable them to go to
Hollywood to play butlers in glossy movies" - Sir (!) Alec Guinness, 1996.

Nil wrote:
On 05 Apr 2012, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I
can't remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Really??? I can hardly remember wanting to capture more than a client
window, dialog box, or small portion of the screen. The capture is
usually to illustrate some particular detail, and it seems to me to be
a waste to use an image file that's 10 times the size it needs to be.

For me, it's a lot simpler to just PrtScrn and crop it inside of the
graphics app that I am already familiar with, like IrfanView.

Jon

In message , Jon Danniken
writes:
Nil wrote:
On 05 Apr 2012, "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

OK, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. I
can't remember ever wanting less than a whole window, though.

Really??? I can hardly remember wanting to capture more than a client
window, dialog box, or small portion of the screen. The capture is
usually to illustrate some particular detail, and it seems to me to be
a waste to use an image file that's 10 times the size it needs to be.

For me, it's a lot simpler to just PrtScrn and crop it inside of the
graphics app that I am already familiar with, like IrfanView.

Jon


On the whole I agree, but I do do the first stage of cropping by using
Alt-PrtScrn rather than just PrtScrn, since it's there anyway.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Sarcasm: Barbed ire

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:17:26 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,
"David H. Lipman" , wrote

From: "Nil"

On 04 Apr 2012, Char Jackson wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm
trying to capture.

I've got at least 4 screen capture utilities on my computer -
Irfanview, GrabIt, Paint Shop Pro, and the ol' standby PrtScr. I use
Irfanview 98% of the time. Grabit is good for screen cap movies. Paint
Shop Pro takes too long to start up to bother with for this purpose. I
only mentioned PrintScreen because everybody has it - I never use it
myself.

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

I use a digital camera myself..... snicker

No, I use PrtScr and PSP6. (I have PSP8, but it DOES take too long to
start up for this, where PSP6 is pretty much *bink*.)

jim

On 4/6/2012 10:17 PM, jim wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:17:26 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,
"David H. , wrote

From:

On 04 Apr 2012, Char wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I almost always use Alt-PrntScrn so I get just the active window
rather than the entire screen. I guess it depends on what I'm
trying to capture.

I've got at least 4 screen capture utilities on my computer -
Irfanview, GrabIt, Paint Shop Pro, and the ol' standby PrtScr. I use
Irfanview 98% of the time. Grabit is good for screen cap movies. Paint
Shop Pro takes too long to start up to bother with for this purpose. I
only mentioned PrintScreen because everybody has it - I never use it
myself.

PSP works just fine for me with no startup hesitation.

I use a digital camera myself.....snicker

No, I use PrtScr and PSP6. (I have PSP8, but it DOES take too long to
start up for this, where PSP6 is pretty much *bink*.)

jim


Yep - PSP has gone down the bloatware trail. I first used PSPv1.x, then
v3, ... I now have v7 on this PC and v9 on a different PC; I prefer v7
and I don't intend to buy any of the newer Corel versions.
--
Cheers, Bob