How to include screenshots with your submitted movie

[Pirate Balloon]

Like this:



Step 1: Open your image program.
Open a graphics program (or whatever the fuck you call them). In my example, i will use Macromedia Fireworks MX. Why? Becuase its quicker to load and faster for me than Photoshop. Should be the same process in all programs though, except MSPaint, which i will cover later.


Step 2: Choose Frame.
Open your movie. Running 3dmm windowed makes life easier, but it will work just as well fullscreen. Find the frame you want to appear in your movie thread. Below you can see the frame i want to get a screenshot of, to have

show up in my movie thread.


Once you are on it, make sure you havent selected anything in the scene (you know, so you dont have a yellow box around something).


Step 3: Print Screening.
Now simply hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard (AKA Prnt Scrn, Print Scrn etc.).

This will capture everything you see on your screen at that moment. If you use ALT+PRNT SCRN then it will only capture the active window, this being 3D Moive Maker. Using ALT+PRNT SCRN will make cropping much easier and quicker later on. The image is now on the clipboard, ready for you to paste into your image program. Okay, now i have pressed ALT+PRNT SCRN on that frame you see above.


Step 4: Editing your printscreen.
Now i go back to my image program (Macromedia Fireworks MX). I press New Document. Since my picture is on the clipboard, Fireworks suggests i have the canvas the same as the picture. Yes.


Now i simply crop, or cut out (whatever) my picture so the toolbars of 3dmm are left out.



Step 5: Exporting.
I exported mine as a gif, to keep filesize down. Do NOT export as a bitmap (.bmp). The final image has to be under 75Kb, so play around with the settings so you still have quality, yet a filesize low enough to be accepted. Heres the final result. Its a .GIF ~20Kb.
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Step 6: Attaching.
In your movie submitting thread, press the "Manage Attachments" button. You are presented with the following pop-up:


Just do as it says, and your image will be uploaded to 3dmm.ciom and included with your movie thread. You dont even have to have an account on the uploader to do this.

You're done. Final result:




USING MSPAINT
Argh, if you really HAVE to, then read below.
Follow steps up to and including #3. Now, go back on MSPaint, and press paste. It might ask if you want to enlarge the bitmap. Say yes. Now use the tools to cut out the picture. When saving, make sure you dont just hit save. NO BITMAPS. With Paint, the filesizes are ually pretty large and both JPG and GIF compression is shite. You'll have to use PNG. You might find it harder with MSPaint to get under the 75Kb limit.

Originally Posted by HMC

Remember with Paint you can use Stretch and Skew to resize your images. You may not know it, but Stretch and Skew actually anti-aliases the image a little.

Now do step 6.

[Sam Hughes]

*claps*

[Mabdog]

[HMC]

Remember with Paint you can use Stretch and Skew to resize your images. You may not know it, but Stretch and Skew actually anti-aliases the image a little.

[Jalal]

Finally people can post images of there movies!

[Demented Ferret]

Originally Posted by HMC

Remember with Paint you can use Stretch and Skew to resize your images. You may not know it, but Stretch and Skew actually anti-aliases the image a little.

Really? I thought it just used Nearest Neighbour, not Bilinear/Bicubic. Cool.

[Ross Marlow]

i don't have any of those programs.

[Pirate Balloon]

You must have Paint?

[Ross Marlow]

Yes, but all screenshots i try to add are invalid, and they are all gif's.

[Kevitus]

Seriously, if you use windows this can't be true.

[Mabdog]

hmmm... looks like ross marlow's a retard