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   I'm looking for a small program or two that will take the screens from
sims and or Windows Desktop and allow me to circle an area with some sort
of outline to draw attention to a problem.   I've found plenty of screen
grabbers, plenty of text editors...but what can I use to mark a section of
the screen so I can send the picture to another user?
  Windows Paint only works with .bmps so that's out...Irfanview is good for
viewing and resizing and converting file types, but it doesn't have any
painting functions that I know of to mark the image.

  any ideas?

dave henrie

Any photo editing app will work...

Dave,

Most of the car painters and track builders use Paint Shop Pro as their
graphics program of choice.  In fact, the original cars in NR03 were painted
with it.

You don't have to purchase the full version of PSP, you can download a
"shareware" version from the JASC website:  http://www.jasc.com/default.asp

This is a relatively simple graphics editing program with a complete set of
"tools" including a free-hand "drawing tool" that should work perfectly for
your needs.

Good luck,

TP

take a look at snag it from www.techsmith.com

What he said ;-)

Andi.
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   Snagit..works great...thanks you two...

dave henrie

Finally, something I can offer some advice on! In addition to the
excellent suggestions already given, you should get yourself a good
graphics file converter. The one I use on the Mac (also available in
Windows flavor) is Lemke Software's "Graphic Converter," but there are
many more choices for the PC, including Etrusoft's FREE Easy Graphic
Converter. Here's the URL and their blurb. BTW, a great place to look
for PC (and Mac) shareware and freeware is Tucows.com.

Bart

http://www.etrusoft.com/graphic-converter/

Easy Graphic Converter  (v1.20) FREE

Easy Graphic Converter is a powerful and easy-to-use graphic converter,
image converter and thumbnails maker that can covert image files and
make thumbnails. It a 32-bit software program that runs on Microsoft
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and
Windows ME Operating Systems. And it's a totally Free Graphic Converter
tool!

1. Easy Graphic Converter can both import and export images in the
following formats:

     * Windows Bitmap (*.bmp, *.dib)
     * GIF (*.gif)
     * JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg)
     * Portable Graphics PNG (*.png)
     * ZSoft PCX (*.pcx)
     * Adobe PSD (*.psd)
     * Targa (*.tga)
     * TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff)
     * Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
     * Windows Enhanced Metafile (*.emf)

2. Easy Graphic Converter can make thumbnails in two ways:

     * Best Fit
     * Exact Size of specified width and height

      Or simply export images the same size as the original ones.

3. Easy Graphic Converter is a batch converting tool. You can convert
batches of different formats images to one type of image in one time. It
supports auto name.

Hi Dave,

I would suggest you take a look at the gimp (http://www.gimp.org). It
can do screenshots of windows, desktops and has many drawing
functions, filter tools, macro capability and tons more.

Cheers,

uwe

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