when posting screenshots to reddits and blogs and forums

..Especially from FSX because most people use fullscreen inside of windowed mode.. you gotta make sure you crop the shots ok!!

It's not hard to make a crop or edits to screens if they come out well, like the screenshots toward making it seems like you're really there so keep in mind to crop screens when you start seeing menu's and taskbars show up in screenshots..


Requirements


  1. Paintshop program of any type
  2. The screenshots you've taken
  3. Places to upload  ie discord/flight sim groups etc

Most of every common image editor is the cut paste and crop tools, it doesn't take long to do any of these edits and isn't even considered when large groups ask if it edited... mostly they ask because of "blooming effects" and other very caustic and very interesting edits but they will never care or worry if a photo has been cropped at all since you took it!!

All you have to do is load the image of an aircraft worthy to edit and crop per se, into an editor, there's a free one called paint.net and I'm not gonna give you the URL cause it's too confusing...just search paint.net on google...older operating systems (Vista, XP) you can only use paint.net 3.5.11 as its the only one that will work...some plugins for added effect will only work on newer but you may get some that come out that work with that


  • ok open your images in paint.net, photoshop6, or whatever 
  • select the area you want to keep, so select the aircraft and scenery and everything above the windows taskbar and below the FlightSm X menu (FS9ers, you don't have to worry about this unless you re in windowed mode as well).. and once you have the desired selection open the menu and hit crop button!!
You're done!!

Now rinse, rinse repeat as many times as you like!!



  and in case you didn't follow or this was hard to read/understand here's what I mean!!
(the line above and ones you've seen in previous years is just more for elders and people with bad eyesight or ones that find it hard to read for things for so long..


2 comments:

  1. I couldn't agree with you more. It takes such a short amount of time to properly crop an image to remove the menu or any sim message such as "parking break" I believe the end result is a much more professional looking image. It adds much more credibility to blog sites and tells me the reader that you're truly serious about giving me the best presentation you can.

    Jerry

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  2. correct, yes.. ya it only takes a second or two to do this!! and btw you are the first to comment on this blog or any of my blogs, for like a few years, i havent been checjing on that...ooh good thing to check out... happy flying and isolation

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