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Making TrendWatch (And Your Life) Easier : Screenshot Capture

Posted by Andrew Faulkner on September 25th, 2006.

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I am exploring some interesting options for adding images to/pulling images from TrendWatch currently. First up - easy screen capture. This isn’t just something that will help you screengrab designs for trendWatch, but will help you on a daily basis as a designer:

http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

For TrendWatch, simply install the screen capture software and edit the settings to automatically print to file as a jpg.

Any suggestions for Mac screencapture software are most welcome. Feedback below.
Next up, daily/hourly/minutely inspiration on your desktop… courtesy of flickr/TrendWatch and some brilliant free software…

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On a mac: use Apple + Shift + 4. This turns the cursor into a crosshair. Click and drag to make a selection, and then release the mouse button. A photo sound effect will play and and a new PDF picture will be deposited on the desktop. Use your favorite photo editor to convert to a .jpg file.

Jeremy Scott
September 25th, 2006
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Also: Apple + Shift + 3 takes a screenshot of the whole screen.

Jeremy Scott
September 25th, 2006
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Thanks Jeremy! That’s good to know.

Andrew Faulkner
September 25th, 2006
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If you are looking for JUST website-based screen captures the Screen grab! extension for Firefox is great. It will save the entire scrollable page as a single image file.

Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/

Tommy Maloney
September 25th, 2006
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Good spot Tommy. That doesn’t spurt out jpgs does it? It’s good for general use but not for TrendWatch. Good find though.

Andrew Faulkner
September 25th, 2006
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