Chalet School Icons

[thisbluespirit]

I had another try. These are still newbie efforts, but playing with some of the effects made it possible to get away with those 'dotty' 1980s Armada covers, which was exciting (for me). Now, I'm beginning to get how the programme works (and I can see some more of the things I'm doing wrong), does anyone have any advice about how to get screen caps from things? (I'm willing to spend some money!)



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Comments

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean by the 'dotty' grain in them, but I like what you've done here so far - I wonder if messing about with the contrast and such on something like Gimp would help smooth them, but can't give any specific advice being only mediocre at it myself.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks. One or two of them are okay, aren;t they? I had fun and if I should post them anywhere else, any Chalet School fan would recognise the source - and half of these have already been considerably smoothed over! Heh.

The new prgramme I have is very good for photo-editing. It's just I'm finding out how to work it by pressing random buttons.

[pedanther]

Which program are you using, by the way?

[thisbluespirit]

Serif PhotoPlus 9. It's a more dated version, but that's because I got it free with my family history magazine. However, it does everything I couldn't do before. :-)

[john_amend_all]

For DVD screencaps I use the VLC player, pause the DVD where I want it and press Ctrl+Alt+S to take a screenshot. Once that's done, I can use GIMP to cut it down to an icon or scribble on it.

[thisbluespirit]

If that actually works for me, I might have to... ooh, I don't know - get on and write that story I owe you? (After I've made myself a Colonel Crichton icon, obviously...) :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Okay, I downloaded it; I'm playing something in it, but Ctrl + Alt + S gets me product info on my computer, which is handy to know, but not much use otherwise.

???

[john_amend_all]

You could also try 'Snapshot' on the 'Video' menu. That worked for me...



...but perhaps they've changed it since I downloaded my copy.

[thisbluespirit]

I worked it out! Okay, am off to play...