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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1254124" data-attributes="member: 141969">There are two ways to take screen shots.&nbsp; The way that [USER=68833]@ajs[/USER] has mentioned uses F11 on the keyboard.&nbsp; But you can also assign that function to a key on your remote control (use &quot;MP Config&quot;). My remote control is the Ortek VRC-1100, and I have assigned its &quot;*&quot; button to take a screen shot (&quot;*&quot; is reminiscent of a shutter button on a camera).&nbsp; The screen shot is placed in a folder in the &quot;Pictures&quot; folder belonging to the user that is running the MP client.The alternative way of taking a picture is to use the PRT_SC (print screen) key on the keyboard to copy the screen to the clipboard, and then use Windows &quot;Paint&quot; program to copy the image from the clipboard into &quot;Paint&quot;.&nbsp; If you do this, you end up with a picture &quot;canvas&quot; that is bigger than the picture pasted.&nbsp; This is what gives the white space to the right and below the actual screen image.&nbsp; The way to avoid this is to notice that immediately after the paste, the screen image is selected.&nbsp; If you now click &quot;Crop&quot;, the excess white space will be cropped off, leaving just the image.I use both ways of taking screen shots.&nbsp; This is mandatory for images of &quot;MP Config&quot; panels.&nbsp; Also, if the MP screen is windowed, pressing ALT_PRT_SC copies only the window with the focus to the clipboard. Finally, the MP client generates PNG files, which usually are much bigger than the equivalent JPG files.&nbsp; So in order to save space on the MP website, I will often load the PNG into &quot;Paint&quot;, and then save it as JPG, to produce a much smaller file for uploading to the MP website.Apologies if you know all of this already, but from reading the preceding posts it seemed to me that there were some misunderstandings in the conversations (which is understandable when English is not your first language).-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1254124, member: 141969"] There are two ways to take screen shots. The way that [USER=68833]@ajs[/USER] has mentioned uses F11 on the keyboard. But you can also assign that function to a key on your remote control (use "MP Config"). My remote control is the Ortek VRC-1100, and I have assigned its "*" button to take a screen shot ("*" is reminiscent of a shutter button on a camera). The screen shot is placed in a folder in the "Pictures" folder belonging to the user that is running the MP client. The alternative way of taking a picture is to use the PRT_SC (print screen) key on the keyboard to copy the screen to the clipboard, and then use Windows "Paint" program to copy the image from the clipboard into "Paint". If you do this, you end up with a picture "canvas" that is bigger than the picture pasted. This is what gives the white space to the right and below the actual screen image. The way to avoid this is to notice that immediately after the paste, the screen image is selected. If you now click "Crop", the excess white space will be cropped off, leaving just the image. I use both ways of taking screen shots. This is mandatory for images of "MP Config" panels. Also, if the MP screen is windowed, pressing ALT_PRT_SC copies only the window with the focus to the clipboard. Finally, the MP client generates PNG files, which usually are much bigger than the equivalent JPG files. So in order to save space on the MP website, I will often load the PNG into "Paint", and then save it as JPG, to produce a much smaller file for uploading to the MP website. Apologies if you know all of this already, but from reading the preceding posts it seemed to me that there were some misunderstandings in the conversations (which is understandable when English is not your first language). -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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