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Screen grabs of the whold interface for tutorial
I searched the archives for this, but most posts seemed to focus on stills from video. I need to make grabs of some AE windows, timeline etc. for an article. They want hi-rez images for print, this is not an on-line tutorial. Can I do this without additional software? BTW I do own PhotZoomPro if that helps in any way. I just want fast, good and easy.
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1. Open Grab (located in /Applications/Utilities).
2. Choose Capture > Screen.
3. When the Screen Grab dialog opens, click outside that window. -
Thanks! Didn’t know about that!
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OUch- that’s hard. Just press cmd+shift+3 to grab whole screen. Press cmd+shift+4 to draw a marquee around an area to grab. Or the coolest, cmd+shift+4 then immediately space bar. That brings up a little camera. Move it over the window you want and click. It’ll capture that window.
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The keyboard shortcuts are best, but for those of us who have trouble remembering such things (like I always do), here’s a widget that allows you to do the same thing by clicking buttons instead:
https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/screenshotplus.html
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Chris,
You want the shoots to be printed and in this way you will get the standard 72ppi images. Not much for printing. So as long as you can not get a higher definition, try to get bigger windows reducing the resolution of your screen (800×600) before making the captures. I thing you will get more printable shoots.
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Chris,
Sorry for my stupid suggestion. If you decrease the resolution of your screen you you decrease the size of the file as well.
To decrease the resolution of the screen is good for me because I’m loosing a lot of vision and I need bigger windowns. But not good for printing:-)
Cheers.
Rafael -
pixels is pixels. Increase the rez and you’ll have smaller type cuz more pixels. No gain any way you do it. Not until rez independent interface Leopard.
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Bret,
Not entirely correct. PhotoZoomPro does a pretty good job scaling things up. Still, Leopard should be interesting. What will Apple call it when they run out of big cats?
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