Making a Print Screen of Your Sims

[Gamblor]

How do you create a print screen or a shot of a Sim with the pie menu up so you can show people on the forums? I have tryed to take a photo shot in the game but the pie menu closes everytime I take one. Is there something else I could do. Sorry I am new to this.

[SaraMK]

The easiest way is to use a stand-alone screen capture program. The best one out there, and the one most people use, is Gadwin PrintScreen. It's free. Google it.

You could also use the built-in screen capture tool in Windows. Press CTRL and the Print SCRN button together, and the image gets copied to the clipboard. You will then need to paste it into a graphics editing program like MS Paint (which you already have in Windows), Photoshop, or some other program.

[Gamblor]

Thank Yoy so much SaraMK. Your the best

[Gamblor]

How do you open up the clipboard?

[SaraMK]

You can't. You need to open a graphics program and chose Paste. Assuming you added an image to the clipboard using CTRL + Print SCRN, the image will appear.

[Gamblor]

Thxs again. I figured it out.

[Gamblor]

One last question. How do you post it on the forums?

[starrling]

You need to use an image hosting site like Photobucket or something.  Put it there, copy the location and plug it into your post.

[Gamblor]

Thxs starrling. 

[SaraMK]

Or use tinypic.com so you don't need to register.

The code you want is the one that starts with [IMG

[Lorelei]

http://www.imagestation.com/
or
http://www.imageshack.us/