screen capture and changing rez

[waynester]

samsung 26" monitor/tv 1920 x 1080
win 7 64 pro, nvida 230 w1.5mb mem
connected via hdmi

Maybe i have overlooked the answer, but here is my problem.
I have tried , faststone, snag-it, picpick,screenshotcapture programs and all give me same results.
When i "click" for screen shot, the screen rez changes to giant size and all i can see of screen is @ 1/4 top left of original screen with no way to view other 3/4 of screen.

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

Have you tried Photoscape to screen capture?

Another method of taking a screenshot is by pressing the button "PrintScreen" on your keyboard. Then "CTRL+V" paste it on Windows Paint.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9717-screenshot-paint.html

 

[Tepid]

I have used all those programs and don't have those problems,,, so, it has to be something you are not doing right, or another problem.

Or, try D3fton3z suggestions. But you shouldn't have to.

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

If TS decides to use my method and still experiencing problems with the resolution.
Try this. Press "PrintScreen" on your keyboard. Open up Windows Paint, don't paste it 1st. On the top left hand panel, click on "Resize". Click on "Pixels". Adjust it to your screen resolution. Click Ok. Now paste "CTRL+V" the screenshot you just took into Paint.

Hope this helps.

 

[waynester]

thank you for your suggestions, D3ftOn3Z and Tepid. with no changes on my part , picpick (which is similar to snag it) has started to work properly. Faststone and photoscape still change rez or "zoom" in to the upper left part of screen when you try to enter capture mode.

 

[waynester]

here is an example of "full screen"capture using faststone, it only captures the top left 1097x617 of screen.

 

[BSkiLLs]

Have you tried to refresh / change your monitor settings ??

Sounds like to me that as i use to have something like that happen when switching to certain games. Then after wards.. It would do and act like that on certain things and programs. Like do it automatically by itself like i was switching to a game (not really switch to actual game but just the way the view or monitor acted meaning) Everything would go WAY large, like mouse pointer and such etc..

I refreshed, and/or switched those back and forth. Then it would clear that issue up. or hit the auto button and have it clear it up for the time being then refresh/reset them. It would be fine up until i had opened whatever it was that made it start acting up like that again... Then i would have to go threw the same process again to clear it up from doing that again. Then i noticed what the main program corporate was. Then got rid of it or stopped using it ever again. Whatever the program or folder was. (cant remember that) It was just a random thing and /or program or folder making it do it

 

[BSkiLLs]

Also might want to go into device manager and update you Nvida driver.

Know how to do that from there ??

 

[whs]

Check these 2 places in FSC settings:

 

[BSkiLLs]

Try this little app to. Pretty great little lightweight screen cap App

Extensoft Free Screen Capturer - http://www.extensoft.com/?p=downloads

 

[waynester]

This system is only a few weeks old , though i do have a few driver updates available already.
For now i'll just use the ms snip it tool and the free PicPick program (like a snag-it lite).
But i still wonder why the picpick works correctly and the others still change screen rez

 

[Pusspa]

what is wrong with snipping tool?

 

[Tepid]

Snip tool is fine. But missing many features that FastStone and others provide.

 

[Pusspa]

and again i ask whats wrong with snipping tool, what possible features could be lacking from an app that simply needs to copy an image from the screen to allow others to see. And more to the point, I have never had any weird screen resolution problems using the native windows app.

 

[whs]

and again i ask whats wrong with snipping tool, what possible features could be lacking from an app that simply needs to copy an image from the screen to allow others to see. And more to the point, I have never had any weird screen resolution problems using the native windows app.

But that is the point. I do not only want to make a snip, but also annotations, arrows, highlights, etc. - and for that you need FSC, Jing or alike.

 

[Tepid]

Snip is fine for most people who just need to do a simple screen shot or 2 from time to time.
I have nothing against Snipping Tool, works fantastic.

But, as seen in WHS post,, there is more to screen shooting than just a screen shot if needed.

Lets say you want to take a series of screen shots. With a proper screen shot tool you can set a destination folder and naming scheme and just take several shots in sequence without having to save each one individually. Can save a ton of time.

 

[Pusspa]

my apologies, I am not worthy. I guess in my simple needs (and ability to use paint or photoshop), I forget that there is a need for 3rd party additions to win7!

 

[Tepid]

Yes,, in certain situations. There is. Trust me,, I feel the same way about Firewalls.
Windows is perfectly good firewall and very powerful if you start tweaking it. but.....

 

[whs]

Pusspa, no need to aplogize. Take this little picture tutorial as an example. It was easy to do with FSC (could have used Jing as well). The next best way would have been more complicated and more work.