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Do all work on single computer for consistency of look and feel.
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
Use Gadwin System Print Screen (http://www.gadwin.com/products.htm?prnscr) for screen snapshots. Settings:
In all powerpoints, you need to:
Want to create a screenshot suitable for saving or printing? Then just hit a key on your keyboard. Oh yeah, you'll have to download this program first.
There are several hotkey combos to choose from (PrintScreen is the default). Once you've chosen your favorite combo, head to the Destination tab and have the screen print out instantly, copy the capture to the clipboard, save it to a specific folder, or even send it through e-mail. You can perform full screen captures, or only capture a specific window.
There are also six different image formats to choose from, and each one can be resized. With all the customization capabilities, what more could you ask for?
Your computer desktop: In order for all our stuff to look consistent, let’s clean up our desktops and make them look the same. Dump all your icons somewhere in a folder or something to clean up the desktop. Set the background color of the desktop. I set mine to the upper right of the gray boxes - R:128 G:128 B:128. And set the color scheme to Silver.
Because some of us have annoying messages in our MSIE title bar from our ISPs, lets use Firefox as long as it renders the page nicely. Otherwise use MSIE. The only things I’ve chosen from the View menu in MSIE is Standard Buttons, Address Bar, and Status Bar. I’m not really sure of the shape for the window. I just chose something I thought pleasant, but we can discuss this. For the most part we will be taking screen captures of single windows, but sometimes we will need to configure multiple browser windows for maximum results.
Download the Snagit executable: http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagitdefault.asp Install. I just said to add all the add-ins. They might be useful.
You can create profiles in Snagit to easily select a window or the whole computer screen or a region that you select based on a crosshair. Snagit will add a prefix for file names. Create a Profile for autosaving a selected window as a PNG with a new name
This is the easy part. Set up the browser window(s) the way you want them. If you configured the Snagit profiles as advised above, click Ctrl-F1 to capture a window. It will let you choose either the whole window with menus or just the part of the window below the menus or just the menus. You can tell what is to be captured because there is a red box around it. If you are not happy with what you’ve selected, hit the Esc button. If you are, then left-click.
This will take you to the SnagIt Capture Preview window. If you like what you’ve got, then click the green check icon at the top left (it says "Finish (File)"). If you don’t like the picture, then hit the Esc key.
2 Warnings: If your computer has a small, low res monitor your screenshots will be worthless. You’ll need at least 1024x768 to set up a browser window with enough content. Also, make sure you have the browser window included like in the example above.
There is a template, though we all agree it’s not great. Open up "THDL_template.ppt". You will see that there are two tabs for viewing the powerpoint presentation as an Outline and as Slides on the left side of the window. There are 3 main types of slide: 1 introduces the overall powerpoint presentation, 1 is a section divider that introduces each sequence of images and 1 is a screen shot with a caption. Here’s how to make your own!
Use the one in the template. Top header is 40pt Verdana, the sections bullets are 32 pt Verdana.
Use the one in the template. Top header is 40pt Verdana, the second header is 36 pt Verdana. The way the template is constructed, there is a divider followed by a sample content page. If you need more divider pages, copy one of the ones here. Content Slides: Screenshot and Caption
There is one with an image of the TLLR page and some text down at the bottom (something like "Resized at 60%…"). Click the thumbnail and you should see the slide on the right in its glory.