3 Ways to take a Screen Shot in Gimp

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:57 pm **(#1)**

3 Ways to take a Screen Shot in Gimp
1. Print Screen keyboard key (entire screen) and Alt + Print Screen key (active window) capture to clipboard.
2. File | Create | Screen Shot... (Shift + F12)
3. File | Snapshot (visible layers only)

[Tip] Create keyboard shortcut, Shift + Alt + F12 for Snapshot.
1. Edit | Keyboard Shortcuts, search for Snapshot.
2. Highlight Snapshot, type Shift + Alt + F12.
3. Release keys, check Save keyboard shortcuts on exit.
4. File | Snapshot, see Shift + Alt + F12.
Snapshot does not alter UNDO history.

Bonus Fun Video: Screen Shot?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 3:41 pm **(#2)**

Excellent information, Odin. Thank you. I never noticed the Screen Shot selection in the File menu. Thanks also for saulgoode's script. :bigthup

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:33 pm **(#3)**

With the, 'File>Create>Screen Shot' method... I think the 'Grab a single window' option is pretty cool.
It's also pretty cool that the screenshots open in Gimp as well.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Thanks, Odin! In addition to that you can take a screenshot of the entire webpage (Create-> From webpage).
Very useful plugin to download long tutorials as one image rather than a series of screenshots.
They finally fixed that in Windows version! :yes

It didn't work in Win versions of GIMP 2.8.2-2.8.4

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:49 pm **(#5)**

Geez, this was suppose to go in Tips & Tricks. Oh well I guess it's a mini tutorial now! :cool

Wallace wrote:

With the, 'File>Create>Screen Shot' method... I think the 'Grab a single window' option is pretty cool.
It's also pretty cool that the screenshots open in Gimp as well.

Yes the Gimp Screen shot tool is excellent and the cool thing about saulgoode's script is, once you have the keyboard shortcut set up, everything happens in the background with no distraction from your workflow.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Nice Odin. thanks
I didn't know saulgoode had a snapshot script. I downloaded it and I went to File > Snapshot but no dialogue comes up on how to use it. Has anyone tried it?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Thank you Odin.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:19 pm **(#8)**

molly wrote:

Nice Odin. thanks
I didn't know saulgoode had a snapshot script. I downloaded it and I went to File > Snapshot but no dialogue comes up on how to use it. Has anyone tried it?

There is a pretty good description at saulgoode's site.

The basics, only the state of the image on the canvas is saved.

saulgoode wrote:

This script will save a snapshot of the current state of the image as a PNG file. Just the visible projection is saved, not the image itself.

The PNG file has a timestamp appended to its name and is saved in the same directory whence the original image came. For example, the file "/home/saul/Images/test.jpg" will have a snapshot such as "/home/saul/Images/test-29743.png". The time stamp is derived from the number of seconds since 1970, but rolls over every 24 hours.

If the original image has not yet been saved to a file then the snapshot will be placed in the GIMP startup directory with the basename of "Untitled" (e.g., "/home/saul/Untitled-29856.png").

There are some cool mini animation possibilities!

Mario Bross · **Joined:** Jun 16, 2013 **Posts:** 107

Thanks for the Tip Odinbc

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks Odin...I found them in my home/molly folder. I wouldn't have looked there in a hundred years. :oops:

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:39 pm **(#11)**

Snapshot is brilliant but I'd like to save the file in a location of my choice and not my bin folder

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I agree, I like all of saulgoodes scripts so maybe he might change the location if we ask him.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 8:10 pm **(#13)**

molly wrote:

I agree, I like all of saulgoodes scripts so maybe he might change the location if we ask him.

When you save the image your working on first, the snapshot should be saved to the same directory as your image (imagename-timestamp).

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 27, 2013 11:19 pm **(#14)**

Saulgoode loves animations and this script is great for quick animations just save your original image to a desktop folder and as you make progressive small changes snapshot it

If the default for non saved images could be changed to the desktop, it would be better

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Graechan wrote:

Saulgoode loves animations and this script is great for quick animations just save your original image to a desktop folder and as you make progressive small changes snapshot it

[ Image ]

If the default for non saved images could be changed to the desktop, it would be better

I agree Graechan, Saulgoode does ROCK.

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:44 pm **(#16)**

Molly there is a 4th way to save Images called 'Export to Directory'

this has a simple setup section at the beginning

Code: Select all

(define default-name 
"Graechan" ;----------------------------------->set default name here
)
;
(define default-dir 
"C:/Users/user/Desktop/Posted to GimpChat" ;--->set default path here
)
;
(define default-xcf-dir 
"C:/Users/user/Desktop/In progress" ;---------->set default xcf path here
)
;<----------->Do not edit below this line---------------------------------------->

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Would I have to put all that code in to get that dialogue? I would screw up for sure, but maybe not, if the lines are numbered.

I think Saulgoode mentioned that he would fix it or change it to do that.

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:14 pm **(#18)**

The dialogue to be amended is at the top of the script that's not posted yet, and is simple to amend
It's the same as call out to set up, here you just set the paths to 2 folders on your desk top

dietmar · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:25 pm **(#19)**

I have to try this script some time...

Personally, for my tutorials, I use GreenShot. It is OpenSource and available for several platforms.
You can take automatic screenshots or load the images in the GreenShot Editor where you can add annotation, speech bubbles, Text, Numbering etc. to it.

Have to recommend this!

dietmar

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Will it work with linux dietmar?

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