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Paint/screen grab utils?

8 posts by 7 people · 01 Aug 2004 16:13 UTC - 02 Aug 2004 07:53 UTC

Dave Henrie 01 Aug 2004 16:13 UTC#33735
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
Biz 01 Aug 2004 17:55 UTC↳ reply to Dave Henrie#33738
Any photo editing app will work... "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > 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 goodfor > 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
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 "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > 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 goodfor > 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
What he said ;-) Andi. -- Remove only one zero to reply. "Phillip Malphrus, Jr" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > take a look at snag it from www.techsmith.com > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > 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 > >
"Andi Cole" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:410d3b57$0$96009 $[email hidden]: > What he said ;-) > > Andi. Snagit..works great...thanks you two... dave henrie
Dave Henrie wrote: > I'm looking for a small program or two <snip> > > 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.
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 11:13:18 -0500, Dave Henrie wrote: > 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 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 -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

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