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Posted by ahl
ahl
1,935 Points

How to take pictures like this!

Hey!

I'm wondering how people take these pictures of their browsers.

http://gyazo.com/14d315df16ec05549c0c48c34d74a5ea

Do they use some kind of software, or do they just use some random screenshot program and then edit in photoshop? Do anybody has experiance with creating pictures like that?

Thanks

6 Answers

Spen Taylor
Spen Taylor
13,027 Points
Spen Taylor
Spen Taylor
13,027 Points

Are you talking about each individual image out of the three browser images? one at a time?

I recall there being a hotkey for it in windows, something like holding shift while pressing the screenshot button - as for macs I have no idea, I'm still pretty baffled as to why it takes a rather cryptic set of three keys?!

ahl
ahl
1,935 Points

I mean for each indivdual image. The picture was just the only one I could find as an example :)

Spen Taylor
Spen Taylor
13,027 Points

figured so :P

The shortcut for windows specifically took a capture of which ever application was in focus at the time, so of cause the browser would have to be in focus. Not sure id that helps much! What OS are you using?

ahl
ahl
1,935 Points

I'm using Windows 7. I know the "prt screen" key, but I just think that the pictures they have taken looks better then mine

Spen Taylor
Spen Taylor
13,027 Points

How so? because they are pre-cropped? as in no start bar etc?

Tony McKeown
PLUS
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points
Tony McKeown
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points

I'm not sure about the hotkeys but Skitch is my favourite capture program for taking screenshots.

http://evernote.com/skitch/

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Do they just use some random screenshot program and then edit in photoshop?

Yep, that's what they do

Morrice Pfeiffer
Morrice Pfeiffer
4,162 Points
Morrice Pfeiffer
Morrice Pfeiffer
4,162 Points

Fast Stone Capture

works awesome

M

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Fireshot for Chrome also works.

z z
z z
3,275 Points
z z
z z
3,275 Points

GIMP is what i use.