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can't take screenshots in win 2000

August 8th 2002, 10:22 PM
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wesley
Ghost They/Them
 
Hey, I am having trouble taking a screenshot of the Box. It may either be win 2000 or operator error. I take the screenshot with printscreen or alt-printscreen. Then I go into Photoshop and paste it into the document. I have tried converting it to the dink palette before I paste, after I paste and everything else I could think of. please help.
August 8th 2002, 10:35 PM
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WC
Peasant He/Him United States
Destroying noobs since 1999. 
weird, try WinDinkEdit http://wcnet.dynu.com/WDE.zip you can take screen shots with that.

--WC
August 8th 2002, 10:39 PM
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wesley
Ghost They/Them
 
: weird, try WinDinkEdit http://wcnet.dynu.com/WDE.zip you can take screen shots with that.

: --WC

I can get the screenshot, but when I paste, it is in 16 colors or something. Mostly green and red and black. I remember this from before, but I thought if I pasted it into a file that was already in dinks palette then it would be "true" dink color, but it doesn't seem to work...

August 8th 2002, 11:17 PM
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Beuc
Peasant He/Him France
 
I never managed to apply the Dink palette under PhotoShop, because there is not the "Maintain Indexes" option.

I suggest you use DinkEdit and Paint Shop Pro (shareware version works well) and follow RedInk1's tutorial "Taking Screenshots".

It is weird you get 16 colours images with WinDinkEdit, though.
August 9th 2002, 03:39 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
: : weird, try WinDinkEdit http://wcnet.dynu.com/WDE.zip you can take screen shots with that.

: : --WC

: I can get the screenshot, but when I paste, it is in 16 colors or something. Mostly green and red and black. I remember this from before, but I thought if I pasted it into a file that was already in dinks palette then it would be "true" dink color, but it doesn't seem to work...

Get a trial programme such as Hypersnap DX, it can make screenshots of EVERY game you can think of and it doesn't need pallette swapping.
August 9th 2002, 06:35 AM
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wesley
Peasant He/Him United States
 
I always used photoshop before, but that was photoshop 5 on win 98. Since the incident, I am running win 2K with photoshop 6, and I can't get it to work. I guess I will have to go another route.
August 9th 2002, 07:54 AM
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wesley
Peasant He/Him United States
 
: I never managed to apply the Dink palette under PhotoShop, because there is not the "Maintain Indexes" option.

: I suggest you use DinkEdit and Paint Shop Pro (shareware version works well) and follow RedInk1's tutorial "Taking Screenshots".

: It is weird you get 16 colours images with WinDinkEdit, though.

It's not from WDE, just Dink (the game)... I'm going to try PSP
August 9th 2002, 09:30 AM
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wesley
Peasant He/Him United States
 
Hey, the full version of Hypersnap worked, but it puts on a watermark on every picture in the free version. The previous version still gave me the 16 color picture like I get with print screen... On to PSP.
August 9th 2002, 11:22 AM
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Beuc
Peasant He/Him France
 
Could you tell me how you managed to apply the Dink palette well with PS5/Win98 (that's my configuration )?

I never managed to obtain something like "Maintain Indexes" under PSP. Each time PS actually tried to make all the existing colours of the screenshot fit with the palette (ie keeping it mainly black).

I then assumed it was not possible...
August 9th 2002, 12:14 PM
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wesley
Peasant He/Him United States
 
: Could you tell me how you managed to apply the Dink palette well with PS5/Win98 (that's my configuration )?

: I never managed to obtain something like "Maintain Indexes" under PSP. Each time PS actually tried to make all the existing colours of the screenshot fit with the palette (ie keeping it mainly black).

: I then assumed it was not possible...

What I did if I remember right is:

1.) Open any Dink Graphic with Photoshop (i used the splash graphic).

2.) From the Menu choose Image>Mode>Color Table

3.) Save the color table as Dink.act or something where you know where it is.

4.) Get a screenshot on the clipboard (using printscreen when playing/editing).

5.) I opened a new document 640x480 (should default to this size from the clipboard)

6.) Go to Image>Mode>Indexed Color

7.) In the dialogue box, choose Custom from the Palette pulldown menu.

8.) Find the file dink.act (or whatever you named it) and click OK

9.) Click OK in the indexed color dialogue box

10.) Paste your image.

Seems like a lot of steps, but it becomes natural very quickly. Plus, the default "custom" color table will become the dink palette so you avoid browsing for it everytime.

If I remember right, the image will appear in true dink color minus the anything that is true black. All you have to do though is fill in the true white pixels and it looks perfect. If you paste the image first, I think it will look like you said, mostly black, which is what I am getting now. I tried the above steps in about every order I could think of, but it doesn't seem to work now.

August 10th 2002, 01:28 AM
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Beuc
Peasant He/Him France
 
I'll try that under Win98 and WinXP, with PS5

August 10th 2002, 03:10 AM
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Tyrsis
Peasant She/Her Russia
 
: I always used photoshop before, but that was photoshop 5 on win 98. Since the incident, I am running win 2K with photoshop 6, and I can't get it to work. I guess I will have to go another route.

I do it with photoshop5.5 - 6.0 doesn't work with win98 too