Screenshott insertion

[deanva]

What is the procedure of taking a screen shoot in Windows 10 then inserting it into like the forum section or any part of SC4Devotion? If there is an answer already could you kindly put a link in your answer. Thanks.

[Seaman]

There are multiple ways of doing it.
I'll just explain what I do without claiming it to be the best.

1. take the screenshot by pressing the "print" key on my keyboard.
2. open microsoft paint and paste the picture into a new file (press "ctrl"+"v")
3. go to "save file as", fill in a name, change the file format to .jpg and save it in a convenient place
4. open your browser and go to a file hosting site (I use imgur, there are many more)
5. at the imgur webpage, you'll find a button "new post". You do not need any account for that. Follow the procedures of the following dialog and upload your picture to imgur
6. when your picture is uploaded, cklick on the little dropdown menue on the top right of the picture and select "get share links"
7. click in the following menue on "copy" next to "BBCode (Forums)". BBcode is the code used in this and many other forums to format the posts.
8. create a new post here in the forums and paste the link into the post like this:

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[img]https://i.imgur.com/bCpnZ7A.jpg[/img]
9. note that ideally you should not post huge pictures, because people with slower internet connections will have to wait for your pictures to load everytime the open your thread. You can adjust the size of your picture in paint.
10. In case you want to give a small picture in the text, that turns big(ger) after klicking on it, one way to do that is to use this code:

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[img width=500]https://i.imgur.com/bCpnZ7A.jpg[/img]
You can use any number smaller than 1024 behind the "width =". This increases readability for the others when they don't have to scroll down huge pictures. Unfortunately, the full picture provided by the link is loaded, regardless how small of a number you set in your code. There are ways around that, but that's for another lesson


This:

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blahblahblahtext....
[img width=500]https://i.imgur.com/bCpnZ7A.jpg[/img]
blahblahblah...

makes this:

blahblahblahtext....

blahblahblah...

[deanva]

OK thanks.