Screenshots??

Scizz

Just curious as to how some of you grab screenshots of your work. I see a lot of high-res, large screenshots of desktops and WIP in 3ds Max or what have you, and whenever I PrntScrn and paste in to Paint or Photoshop and upload my image, its all small and low res.

Artifice

I believe printscreen captures at you desktop resolution, so if you're working on a smaller screen it will be a smaller image. Also possible is that whatever image hosting site you're using is downsizing your images as you upload them, since most people (outside the art community) don't want 2000x1000 images of the family vacation.

I'd check your image host for a 'no downsizing' option as well as the size of the screenshot in Photoshop.

nordahl154

May I suggest Imgur? No compression, even if you don't have an account! (Assuming you aren't uploading 2000x2000 or something like that.)

passerby

just use dropbox fast and it dosnt compress the images in anyway.

and printscreen can olny get the same res as your display, but if your working in udk you can use the tiledshot command to take higher than display res images.

sprunghunt

http://www.flickr.com/
doesn't downsize a screenshot and has some handy features you don't get with dropbox.

RappyBMX

i use my own screenshooter http://remusjuncu.com/blog/2010/09/i-like-it-customized-screenshooter/

passerby

RappyBMX wrote: »

i use my own screenshooter http://remusjuncu.com/blog/2010/09/i-like-it-customized-screenshooter/

got a little python app that does a printscreen, saves it in my dropbox public and copys the URL to clipboard with 1 key press

Scizz

i found that image shack doesn't resize them. = )
I used photobucket and it resizes your photos if your not a pro user.

Kwramm

I grab with printscreen (or alt printscreen for windows) or fraps then upload on flickr, photobucket or my own website.

I just hate imageshack for being slow and obnoxious. Dropbox sounds cool but if you're an outsourcer in China it's useless because it's blocked.

Ace-Angel

Picasa, Imagru, Flicker and many others are what works.

Also, depends, if you're Viewport capturing from Max and Maya packages, you can get scripts to do the job for you and/or use Grab Viewport under tools sections.

You could also render...

FAT_CAP

dustinbrown wrote: »

If you're using 3ds max, and you don't need the UI in the shot, only what's on the viewport, then there is a maxscript on Xoliul's website called GrabViewport. It will let you take high res screen grabs.

http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader

For anyone else using that script, does anyone know of a way to get it to include an alpha channel with your screen grab? I've been making my viewport background color a bright color (like a green screen) and masking it out in Photoshop, but I'd rather have an alpha.

When I use this script to make a screenshot, I also make a copy of the material and set all the diffuse components to fully self-illuminated white, and make the background black. You can then just swap between the two materials whenever you need to re-render.

You can also just render a proper alpha, using the render elements function in Max, although I have found that sometimes this doesn't match up 100% with the screengrab, and is shifted a pixel or two out.

Sean VanGorder

When I need an alpha for Grab Viewport, I just set the viewport to Flat shaded. Just adjust the levels of it when you're in Photoshop and you'll have a decent mask.

Stinger88

Snipping tool or printscreen works fine for me. Never needed to printscreen at a higher res than desktop and i'm not sure why you would need to. If I was doing that i'd export a render or document from the software.

cw

I have my own script to grab the max viewport bigger than screen size, and it is very useful as you can get higher res grabs of viewport shader effects which may take time to setup render materials for.