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Screenshots
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Capturing a screenshot, on a Windows 7 PC:

• once you have the desired window displayed, select it,
• press Alt+PrtScn on your keyboard,
• in Windows 8.1, hold down the Windows key (four panes key) and press PrtScn,
• open Microsoft Paint (or similar),
• Ctrl+v to paste the window into MS Paint,
• edit / trim / annotate it as needed,
• Ctrl+s to save it to disk

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Capturing a screenshot animation, on a Windows PC:

• use Licecap, downloadable from here: www.cockos.com/licecap,
• download and install it.

• once you have the desired Reaper window displayed, start Licecap,
• position it over the area you can to capture,
• click [Record], select a destination folder and enter a file name,
• set any desired options,
• click [Save] to start the recording, and [Stop] to finish it,
• you can also Pause the recording and insert an explanatory text frame.

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Including a screenshot in your reply

• upload it to an Image Server (e.g. imgur or ...),
• paste the resulting link to your image, surrounded by "[IMG]" and "[/IMG]" tags (no quotes), into your reply,
• or post a thumbnail image, with a link to the big picture into your reply.

Please note: Big pictures in forum threads force out the width of the thread pages so a lot of scrolling horizontally is needed to read the other replies, find the links and type a reply. It's all a bit awkward. Animated gifs can take a long time to download.

Instead, it is better to post a thumbnail image and a link to the bigger picture; that makes reading and replying easier. As an example, using imgur.com (other image servers should have similar mechanisms):

• upload your image to imgur.com ,
• hover over the uploaded image until you see the URL, a [Copy] button and a drop-down arrow,
• click on the arrow and select "Get share links", here are the sorts of screens you should see:
  >>> https://i.imgur.com/Ni3QsM3.png
  
  
• click [Copy] for the "BBCode (Forums)" link for the uploaded image. then Ctrl+c,
• paste it into your post AND ADD A 't' to the image filename to create a thumbnail-sized image,
• paste in the link (to the full-size picture) again AND REMOVE the IMG tags to create a link.

As in:

PHP Code:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/iCtdt7ut.png[/img] >>> https://i.imgur.com/iCtdt7u.png 


The end result is:
>>> https://i.imgur.com/iCtdt7u.png


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Attaching a screenshot to your reply

Attach the image file(s) (or a .zip file containing them all) to your reply:

• in Windows, select the file(s),
• right-click a file, select Send To ... compressed (Zipped) folder),
• when you reply, scroll down a bit, open the "Additional Options" section if needed by clicking the double downwards arrows,
  
• click on [Manage Attachments], browse to your file, select and Upload it.