Screenshots are so often used, it a shame they aren’t snazzed up a bit more.
Photoshop Tutorials
Skewed perspective/ blurred technique (mezzoblue)
David Shea shows you how to create cool fuzzy looking perspective shots.
Realistic reflections and shadows (Scriptygoddess)
Why not have you’re screenshots stand up and look nice?
3D Box Art (Spoono")
Put your screenshots onto a product box.
Screenshot into a computer monitor (Photoshop Arts)
Self explanatory, good tutorial. Uses the same sort of distort technique as the 3d-Box Art.
Get a cool picture of a monitor over at Stock.XCHNG, my favorite free stock photography site.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to make your pictures pop (digital Photography School)
While your taking those screenshots, why not give them a little pop, 4 very cool simple techniques.
Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print (graphicPUSH)
Firefox Addons
As any good amatuer designer, you should be using Firefox, and these two add-ons can be a huge time saver, instead of using the Prt Scr key every time.
Screengrab!
This is one of my favorite add-ons, and I definitely use it on a daily basis. You can copy or save: the complete page/frame (yes the entire web page), just the visible portion, or a selection.
Snapper
I think I might have used this at one point, but I can’t remember. Just included here for completeness. Anyone know more?
Tools & Resources
And if you’re too lazy to all of that mentioned above, there are two fairly identical programs available for free that will do the entire thing for you.
Rumshot, a freeware screenshot tool
Snapshooter, a freeware screenshot tool
From the Rumshot website:
Rumshot is an application for Windows similar to SnapShooter (Mac OS X) developed by Andrew Powell. Rumshot is designed to create a beautifully framed preview in a few seconds, as well as taking screenshots of your desktop. Rumshot supports themes for its frames, the program itself comes 18 themes – you can also find various themes for your frames on the web, or easily create one. I decided to create this guide because some people were having a hard time using the program.
Let me know what you think guys, and I’d be happy to come out with an “Amatuer’s Guide to Taking Better Screenshots Part 2, Reader Suggestions”
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Sunday, May 6, 2007
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