Creating/ editing pictures Thread

Hi,

I would like to know, what would be a good program to edit a picture or screen. Like say you took a screen in a game, like when i press the print screen button on the keyboard. What would be a good program where i can post/paste it and edit it. Like writing a sentance or cuting a piece of the picture of, like there is a piece near the borders of the pic and u want to cut it off so i won't show it in the
picture. Thanks in addition.

Sc(+)pe

Well, many people use Adobe Photoshop 7/CS2/CS2. But it's pretty expnsive. You can try Gimp, which is like photoshop but free. Theres another but can't remmber the name.

I always used MS Paint for that sort of thing. GIMP is an excellent alternative to Photoshop or PSP though

if you want to take a screenshot in a game many games have a button assigned for that like F12 you can bind it yourself if the game supports it like

/bind F12 screen
or
/bind F12 screenshot
or
/bind F12 shot

depends on if the game supports it and what the cmd is for the particular game is

well I heard that print screen was a better more detailed way to take a pic.

It makes sod all difference except that normally, an ingame screenshot thingy will remove the hud n' stuffz

wait, what do u mean an ingame screenshot will remove the hud? Is that were i would have to presslike F12. And also, can i post/paste a screen that i took by the print screen button in Gimp. How would i do that?

*sigh*

It really does help to know what game you're talking about before I can go into any specifics you know..

Which is lame anyway. And don't bind f12 screenshot in Deus Ex.

well it is going to be a standalone, but uses quake 3 files and will soon use doom3 and quake 4 files.

Huh?

if it quake3 hit f12 and look in baseq3/screenshots

Yeah it will save it to a folder... for what you are looking to do you can use MS Paint, although I would reccomend GIMP or maybe looking at eBay for PSP7 I think I got mine for 13 bucks... pretty good deal.

well i have adobe photoshop 7.0 umm the game is megaman arena. and yes i know how to take a screen shot by presseing F12. But it is a better picture for me if i would press print screen. I want to know how to paste that picture onto adobe 7.

Just create a new file, and Edit> Paste.

Quake 3...Doom 3...? dude, you can't combine a bunch of engine together unless you have the "full" engine. that could cost over millions of dollars to buy each of them...

don't talk to me dude, go to www.thinksurvival.com/mma i didn't make anything. I think it is the file formats. Not the maps or models. By the way. I have a .psd file and i want to turn it into a .jpg file because i need that one. Is there a way i can change them?

file>save as or file>save as copy something like that and then at the bottom of the save screen you can select the file format

Its better to do: File> Save as For Web then on the right theres a tab. Select what file format you want.

ok why is it better then ?

Because it applies various compression methods, doesn't it?

Krycha wrote: Because it applies various compression methods, doesn't it?

Most likly. I just remember reading it in a design article. Probaly won't make a differnce for just screenshots.

well with Photoshop you have a slider wich sets the compression as you save

Yea i got it, i know how to do it know. I am happy now