Darnit696
19th December 2005, 07:46 PM
After figuring out how to place a sig on my posts (with help from TG) I was feeling rather smart so I decided to try and set up my "avatar" picture. Now instead of doing somthing simple I need to get complicated ( I did say I was feeling smart). What I was wanting to do was capture this particular scene from Toy Story 2 that I like. ( In the beginning of the movie Buzz gets whacked by Zurg and his half torso stands there smouldering for a moment before falling down) So Drusky comes past and puts me on track by telling me that all I have to do is press "prt screen" when I've got what I want before my eyes then paste it into the app that I want to use to edit it.
Simple.
Thats usually where the trouble starts.
I play the movie using Win Media Player. Pause at the right moment. Press Print Screen. Open Adobe Photoshop Elements (came bundled with me camera). Paste and viola there it is. I'm brimming with joy, humming to myself and all. Just need to crop it now so that all I've got is the Buzz torso not the whole scene. Decide to close media player - dont need it anymore. Go back to Adobe and my scene is gone replaced by a shot of media player with a black sceen. "What the...." Start at the beginning figure I need to save the shot in Adobe before closing the player. Done get ma shot. Now try to crop. Select the bit I want and crop. "What the...." The whole thing moves over left and Buzz goes half out of scene. Cant figure this one, Think I'm gonna use something else to edit. Paint or something. Also think i'm not so smart anymore. Oh well fun while it lasted. :)
If anyone knows how to do this in 30 seconds, I'll hail them as very smart especially if they can tell me before I go off and labour at the whole thing from the beginning. If you read this and make me work away at it and then tell me afterwards that you knew all along how to sort it in 30 seconds or less... I'll be forced to hunt you on the battlefield. Of course I might end up being hunted on the battlefield but lets not go there... :p
Simple.
Thats usually where the trouble starts.
I play the movie using Win Media Player. Pause at the right moment. Press Print Screen. Open Adobe Photoshop Elements (came bundled with me camera). Paste and viola there it is. I'm brimming with joy, humming to myself and all. Just need to crop it now so that all I've got is the Buzz torso not the whole scene. Decide to close media player - dont need it anymore. Go back to Adobe and my scene is gone replaced by a shot of media player with a black sceen. "What the...." Start at the beginning figure I need to save the shot in Adobe before closing the player. Done get ma shot. Now try to crop. Select the bit I want and crop. "What the...." The whole thing moves over left and Buzz goes half out of scene. Cant figure this one, Think I'm gonna use something else to edit. Paint or something. Also think i'm not so smart anymore. Oh well fun while it lasted. :)
If anyone knows how to do this in 30 seconds, I'll hail them as very smart especially if they can tell me before I go off and labour at the whole thing from the beginning. If you read this and make me work away at it and then tell me afterwards that you knew all along how to sort it in 30 seconds or less... I'll be forced to hunt you on the battlefield. Of course I might end up being hunted on the battlefield but lets not go there... :p