How to take a Screenshot:
You've heard people say to take a screenshot, but how does one take a screenshot of their game? Simple, while the game is running, hit the
Prt Scr button on your keyboard, which is located right next to your F12 key. If you're using a laptop, you might have to use the
Fn key in combination with the Prt Scr key to get it to work.
Now that you've pressed the button, it's time to paste this screenshot into an image editing software. If you don't have anything fancy such as Adobe Photoshop, GIMP or Paint.NET, no worries; you can use MS Paint instead. Open up your image editing software, create a new file, and then hit
ctrl+v on your keyboard, or simply right click on the screen and select
paste. This should instantly paste the screenshot into your image editing software. You can go ahead and crop the image to suit your needs, or if you don't even know what that means, you can just upload it as it is.
Save the image as a PNG, or if you really need to, as a high quality JPG.
How to upload the image to the forums
Now that you have you have an image on your computer you'd like to show us, how can you get it to show up on the forums? Firstly, you need to find an image hosting site,
photobucket.com or
imageshack.us are popular ones. If you have another image uploading website, great - use that one! Either way, upload it to the site, and then get the
direct link. Don't get the resized link, or the thumbnail link,
but the direct URL. You'll know you have the direct URL if the URL ends with the file extension you saved your image in (which will hopefully be .png).
Once you have this direct URL to your image, simply use the IMG tags in your forum post and paste the URL in between them. If this image is big, please leave the image in spoiler tags.
IMG tags:
