Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 I need to get one still image of a movie and make it into a gif image for a school presentation. What is the easiest way for me to do this? I really can't spend money to buy any software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazymaine catholic Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 check out www.imdb.com they might have some movie stills for you. is that what you're looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morostheos Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 If you have the movie on dvd, play it full screen on your computer and take a screen shot of your comp. On a PC, I think it's something like CTRL + Print Scrn will automatically save an image of what's on your screen. It's been a while since I've used it though, I don't remember where it saves the images to or anything...I'm sure someone else knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 [quote name='crazymaine catholic' date='Apr 5 2006, 06:13 PM']check out www.imdb.com they might have some movie stills for you. is that what you're looking for? [right][snapback]937013[/snapback][/right] [/quote] No. I need to be able to take a "picture" of a movie on my computer screen while it is still and copy that picture onto a Word or Powerpoint document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkwright Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 theres a program called fraps thats free that will let you take screen shots and 30 second video of anything on your screen. website might be www.fraps.com ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarf Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Why a .gif format? It seems like a jpeg would be much better, namely much smaller file size for a picture the size of screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 [quote name='Snarf' date='Apr 5 2006, 06:26 PM']Why a .gif format? It seems like a jpeg would be much better, namely much smaller file size for a picture the size of screen. [right][snapback]937028[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Any format is fine. I guess I just said gif so I wouldn't get a really wierd one that would be incompatible with windows. I don't know graphic stuff all that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 *begs* I really need it by tomorrow morning. I'm not finding much of anything so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morostheos Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Here ya go: [quote]Windows If you want to take a picture of the entire screen, you can press the Print Screen button, often labeled PrtScrn, to capture the screen at that moment. The computer will copy it into its short-term memory, but will not create a document with the picture the same way a Macintosh system will. To create a file with the screen shot, you will need to go to a graphic-friendly program such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Adobe Photoshop and press Control and V to paste the screenshot into a document. Remember that the full-screen screen shots are taken as high-resolution bitmaps; although the quality on these pictures are good, they can take up a lot of room, so they'll probably need to be manipulated in a separate graphics program to reduce the size.[/quote] Easy as pie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkwright Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 that program called fraps will do what you're looking for. www.fraps.com download the free version (I think the only difference between the one you buy and the free one is in video recording so you should be able to take screen shots just fine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luciana Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 cool, I think i'm going to try that software I thought WMP could take screen shots for you too..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 [quote name='morostheos' date='Apr 5 2006, 07:13 PM']Here ya go: Easy as pie! [right][snapback]937063[/snapback][/right] [/quote] It doesn't work for still video images though... Thanks for trying though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 [quote name='rkwright' date='Apr 5 2006, 07:35 PM']that program called fraps will do what you're looking for. www.fraps.com download the free version (I think the only difference between the one you buy and the free one is in video recording so you should be able to take screen shots just fine) [right][snapback]937066[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I can't figure out how to take a screen shot. I've downloaded it, pressed f10...not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoketos Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 IM me and I will help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 You're not on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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