Screenshots

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:56 pm

bob wrote:To reduce the file size on the screenshots -

If you don't have one on your computer already, download an image editor. Doesn't need to be Photoshop, just needs to be able to open a targa file (the .tga format NWN saves screenshoys in), then save it as a gif or jpeg. I understand IrfanView is a nice small, but full featured, editor. It can be found at http://www.download.com/IrfanView/3000- ... ag=lst-4-4.

I don't use it myself, but the next steps should be roughly the same as in Photoshop. Once you've opened the screenshot file, you can either save it as a jpeg (if it have a lot of detail) or a gif (if it has a lot of areas with roughly the same colour. Shoots in dungeon areas usually end up with large areas of black & sometimes end up smaller as gif files).

If you're saving as a jpeg, you'll probably get the option to set the image quality. Halfway along the slider (or half quality) is more than enough.

If you're saving as a gif, you'll have to convert it to indexed colour. An adaptive 256 colour palatte with no dithering are the things to look for.

You should be able to get the original 2+mb 1024x768 targa (for example) down to 120-150kb or less & not have the reduction problems you do now.

You don't even need an image editor that can open .tga's. When you hit prntscrn the image should also be saved to the clipboard as well as to the tga file in your nwn directory. Just hit the prntscrn key, then open the image editor and you should be able to paste directly in.
JPEG is the best compression as far as I am concerned and bob is right that 50% is probably almost overkill. When I compress to jpeg for filesize I usually set it to 33%.

I use this for a photo/image editor:

Awesome program!

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:35 pm

how do you get it free tho?

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:39 pm

<shakes head at throst>
And I qoute:
"Please stop spamming the forums - copying over an entire post that someone else made just to change one or two lines, and posting one-line replies over and over and over again has gone over the line.

Lay off or you will be banned from the forums for a week.

A copy of this warning is being placed in the DM forums as well"

You can't get Jasc for free, but do a search on tucows.com and you might find something.

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:41 pm

i've found a crack b4 for it and it didnt work...

has anyone else ever seen a crack for jasc, and if so...
where can i get it?
hmm, or what about any other good photo editing programs?
jasc cant be the only one out there...

IcemanXV · Post by **IcemanXV** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:49 pm

I Use Paintshop Pro 8.01.

But, if you're going another route, Adobe Photoshop is alright as well as Micrografx Picture Publisher.

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:09 am

Gimp is a nice free opensource image editor (Look+Feel like Photoshop, but missisg some feeatures)

And then theres always Suprnova for those *cough* "backup" copies of photoshop/paintshop/anything you want... you just need bittorrent to download from it though (p2p downloader)

If you just wanna convert files to other formats/compress them... i'd check out a program named ACDSee... i dont remember where to get it though... its a windows only program and its been ages since i used windows heh

ATI · Post by **ATI** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:36 pm

Come on now....be like you're fellow mates, and invest in photoshop cracks from shareaza and kazaa

Thank you suprnova.org

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:22 am

The NWN screenshot function is particularly handy if you need to cap a string of screens in rapid succession (as opposed to pasting them from the clipboard), or simply don't want to break from the NWN window to fire up an editor.

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:57 am

the $800 price tag just screams warez

and if you are interested in making animated GIFs or AVIs from actual game footage... check out a program called Fraps

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:39 pm

There's a nwn screenshot function? :*( i was using paint and printscreen forever and kept having to downsize after kills, which was a pain.

As for paintshop pro, Maximum PC released a 30 day demo of it earlier this year. It was decent, although i'd rather get a copy of photoshop.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:55 pm

NWN saves a targa file each time you hit printscreen, so if you've been using the key then cutting & pasting, check your NeverwinterNights\NWN folder. You may have a number of 2.3mb (at 1024x768) NWN000x.tga files sitting in there taking up hard drive space that you can safely delete.

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:09 am

Oh, thx. Never knew that. Should have plenty of stuff to delete then.

Kelli · Post by **Kelli** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:27 am

Just another idea: I use a program called Clipmate. When you hit Print Scrn, a copy of the file goes to clipmate and saves it there so that you can have very many screenies in an easy place to find. Also is very handy since it overides the normal windows clipboard allowing you to save your cut and paste operations instead of loosing them the next time you use the ctrl+c function

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:43 am

Got a url for clipmate?

Kelli · Post by **Kelli** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:48 am

http://www.thornsoft.com for clipmate