test content
  • Games
  • Social
  • Arc News
  • Support
  • Zen
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Forums > Home› The Foundry for Star Trek Online› The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
Options

Anyone know of a good FREE screenshot capture program?

djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,379 Arc User
edited March 2013 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
I've been using "Screenhunter 5" but it doesn't seem to want to play well with STO. Anyone know of a good one? I want to create an ad banner for my latest mission!
Thanks!
C4117709-1498929112732780large.jpg

Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
-Captain James T. Kirk
Post edited by djf021 on

Comments

  • Options
    stardestroyer001stardestroyer001 Member Posts: 2,615 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    STO has a built-in screen capture option. Look in the keybinds section.
    stardestroyer001, Admiral, Explorers Fury PvE/PvP Fleet | Retired PvP Player
    Missing the good ol' days of PvP: Legacy of Romulus to Season 9
    My List of Useful Links, Recently Updated November 25 2017!
  • Options
    maddog0000doommaddog0000doom Member Posts: 1,017 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    you could try pressing print screen button
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Options
    ajstonerajstoner Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Fraps is excellent and free, plus you can do some video recording with it if you like.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Options
    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    maddog0000doom wrote: »
    you could try pressing print screen button
    This is what I do, then I copy it into MSpaint.
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    My character Tsin'xing
    Costume_marhawkman_Tsin%27xing_CC_Comic_Page_Blue_488916968.jpg
  • Options
    archofwinterarchofwinter Member Posts: 215 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Follow your file path...
    [where ever you installed the game]/Cryptic Stuidos/Star Trek Online/Live/screenshots
    All your screenshots are automatically stored there.
  • Options
    djf021djf021 Member Posts: 1,379 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    stardestroyer001 wrote: »
    STO has a built-in screen capture option. Look in the keybinds section.

    LOL ok thanks, well I guess I neglected to do my research before asking! Thanks!
    C4117709-1498929112732780large.jpg

    Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
    -Captain James T. Kirk
  • Options
    lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ajstoner wrote: »
    Fraps is excellent and free, plus you can do some video recording with it if you like.

    I have been wondering if Fraps is better than the demorecord software everyone complains about. Demorecord does create some very nice hi res visuals though.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
  • Options
    thegreendragoon1thegreendragoon1 Member Posts: 1,872 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I run STO through Steam which has screen cap abilities. I like that because it allows me to then immediately upload for use online.
  • Options
    ssargonssargon Member Posts: 347 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    One thing to keep in mind about STO's ingame screencapper; it doesn't include your UI. If whatever you're doing requires the UI you're better off using Printscreen/paste into an image program.
  • Options
    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ssargon wrote: »
    One thing to keep in mind about STO's ingame screencapper; it doesn't include your UI. If whatever you're doing requires the UI you're better off using Printscreen/paste into an image program.
    Quite true. The in-game feature will hide ALL windows IIRC. But it makes for nice shots of scenery.
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    My character Tsin'xing
    Costume_marhawkman_Tsin%27xing_CC_Comic_Page_Blue_488916968.jpg
  • Options
    ajstonerajstoner Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Quite true. The in-game feature will hide ALL windows IIRC. But it makes for nice shots of scenery.

    I can't recall what it is off-hand, but there is a command code you can enter into the chat box that will include the UI in screen shots for the in-game one.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Options
    syberghostsyberghost Member Posts: 1,711 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ajstoner wrote: »
    I can't recall what it is off-hand, but there is a command code you can enter into the chat box that will include the UI in screen shots for the in-game one.

    /screenshotui 1

    0 to turn it off.
    Former moderator of these forums. Lifetime sub since before launch. Been here since before public betas. Foundry author of "Franklin Drake Must Die".
  • Options
    artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2013
    Originally I could Print Screen, then past into MS Paint, now it just comes up as a black screen.
    The STO SS folder is available but the images are Jpegs not PNG's.
    22762792376_ac7c992b7c_o.png
    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

    Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
  • Options
    saxfiresaxfire Member Posts: 558 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    How I roll? Take a screenshot, open paint, ctrl + v, edit all the stuff around it away, save file. open mediafire. upload it to mediafire, send link to friends.

    or if you want an actual screensharing program. https://join.me/ is great one. live streaming and its free too.
    Say the word, it saves the world.
    CUUCUUMBEER! "-With slight partigen with it."
    Proud member or DPS-800 "-We kill dem mines with our scitter turrets."
  • Options
    lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Try 'snapper', I've been using it in flightsim for years.

    http://craz.net/Snapper/
    KBF Lord MalaK
    Awoken Dead
    giphy.gif

    Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
  • Options
    archofwinterarchofwinter Member Posts: 215 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    You don't even need to paste it onto paint.
    STO save your screenshot when ever you press 'print screen'
    There is a folder in your game folder named 'screenshots' and they are all there.
  • Options
    artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited March 2013
    The problem with these is that the images are JPEGS, which look ugly and compressed rather than nice PNG's.
    22762792376_ac7c992b7c_o.png
    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

    Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
  • Options
    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    yes, my version of MSpaint does PNGs. :)
    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    My character Tsin'xing
    Costume_marhawkman_Tsin%27xing_CC_Comic_Page_Blue_488916968.jpg
  • Options
    kobayashlmarukobayashlmaru Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    artan42 wrote: »
    The problem with these is that the images are JPEGS, which look ugly and compressed rather than nice PNG's.

    Increasing your renderscale and it will nullify any loss you may have received from the lossy format (jpg) when you scale it back down down in your favorite image editor.

    Also, if you hold ALT while pressing print screen, STO will save it in a lossless format (TGA) for you.
    Kobayashi Maru
    Join Date: Sept 2008

    "Holographic tissue paper for the holographic runny nose. Don't give them to patients." - The Doctor
  • Options
    oldkhemaraaoldkhemaraa Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Infranview.

    Free, been around forever.

    Open infranview.

    in sto, hit printSCR

    alt tab to desktop and bring up infranview.

    find "create new image" in the infranview menu (use default settings)


    move mouse pointer over empty image and "shift insert" or use the paste command off the infranview edit menu. Very powerfull tool, with many options availible to you.

    Been using it for well over a decade myself.

    Khemaraa sends
    "I aim to misbehave" - Malcolm Reynolds
  • Options
    lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    djf021 wrote: »
    I've been using "Screenhunter 5" but it doesn't seem to want to play well with STO. Anyone know of a good one? I want to create an ad banner for my latest mission!
    Thanks!

    http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras ;)

    Prtscrn will not capture the foundry ui either I learned that the hard way trying to capture the characters I used to create my current sig banner.
    A TIME TO SEARCH: ENTER MY FOUNDRY MISSION at the RISA SYSTEM
    Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
Sign In or Register to comment.