Dark Ice

26th August 2001 03:27 UTC

Problems with screenshot
How the hell are you supposed to take a screenshot of AVS in overlay mode so you can show it off to all your friends and make you popular?

well i hope so

i tried printscreen, but that dint work,,
i tried a few 3rd party screenshot progs but they did the same thing

:confused: :confused: :confused:
thanks anywais

flatmatt

26th August 2001 03:50 UTC

You can't. But you could take a shot of a fullscreen AVS plugin, use it for your background, and take a screenshot of that.

Dark Ice

26th August 2001 04:41 UTC

but..
i'd do that, but the problem is that i want to see it with my icq and all toolbars to have the overlay effect screenshot,
you see my problem here,,
the only way i've though of to get it is to take a real photo of my screen,,
but that costs money!

flatmatt

26th August 2001 04:48 UTC

Okay:

1. Take screenshot of fullscreen preset.
2. Paste in a program like PSP.
3. Take screenshot of desktop (With blank bg same color as overlay color)
4. Paste desktop shot over AVS shot.
5. Set selection transparency to the overlay color.
6. i iz an jeenyis

I'm assuming you have experience with this sorta stuff.

Dark Ice

26th August 2001 04:56 UTC

cool!
i never thought of that,,!
now i gotta shell out a grand or so for the app,,,,,,,
cuz i wouldn't download warez!;)

Dark Ice

26th August 2001 05:14 UTC

My desktop!
Cool it worked!
this is how i work most of the day!

Scarface2k1

26th August 2001 16:59 UTC

i ran avs with winamp and avs minimized and with overlay running :D

transfrmr

26th August 2001 19:32 UTC

Another Alternative...
Go to www.tucows.com

download 20-20 screenshot utility (freeware)

install and run it. This is fully selectable to take screenshots from windows or fullscreen, you can take just the contents of the windows, create slideshows by setting it to take a screenshot at certain time increments and I'm pretty sure the image would turn out better than the one you posted (it's ok, but could be clearer right?

All you do is run winamp in overlay mode, press printscreen and it saves a screenshot of the whole screen ..

simple, elegant, free...


my 2 cents

Lucid DM

26th August 2001 22:37 UTC

When I use overlay. I put it in as the second colour (the dark one) in "Appearance". So that all the borders of my windows and the background in Word etc. are shimmering with colour. It's a much more subtle effect. Nice with a bright, colourful presethttp://www.mear.fsnet.co.uk/grinblue.gif.

flatmatt

27th August 2001 01:57 UTC

If you were to press printscreen with the overlay running, all you would get is the color that you selected where the overlay is. That was the original problem.

And I'm assuming the reasons the screenshot is bad are, A- it's resized and B- it's a JPEG.

transfrmr

29th August 2001 22:53 UTC

I have seen...
The error of my ways.

Actually, this thread led me to try out the overlay mode (which I had up untill now overlooked.. Wow, this is great, just by switching between "view desktop as webpage" and standard desktop (with modified colors for overlay of course) I can have either my regular desktop or Avs,,, I can't believe I was missing out on this..

Sorry about the crappy advice.. I thought the screenshot had worked because I had a stagnant avs (no music) as an overlay and it showed up in the screenshot.. but it was simply still overlaying..



Sorry bout that.. I stand (or sit) corrected

But thanks for drawing my attention to overlay.. I am in love...

gandalf

20th September 2001 04:37 UTC

Another nice trick would be to leave your background color as it is, and set the overlay to black. Reading a page becomes so much cooler, with all the letters glittering.