Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 2/15/09 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/02/21/reference-question-of-the-week-21509/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lindsay Shaw http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/02/21/reference-question-of-the-week-21509/#comment-856 Lindsay Shaw Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:38:03 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=561#comment-856 i use snippy. it allows users to make custom sized cropped screen shots. while you are making the “snip,” your screen freezes, allowing you to work with an animated .gif
and it’s an open source program :)
here’s the link: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

]]> By: Graeme Williams http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/02/21/reference-question-of-the-week-21509/#comment-855 Graeme Williams Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:09:13 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=561#comment-855 Once you’ve saved the image, IrfanView has the function you need built-in, under Options -> Extract all frames.

When I’m doing screen captures, I paste them into Paint .NET, since it has a single command for “Paste from clipboard into new image” and from there I can save, edit, print, whatever.

It’s been a long time since I needed to do something with an image and couldn’t do it with either IrfanView or Paint .NET.

]]> By: Jill http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/02/21/reference-question-of-the-week-21509/#comment-854 Jill Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:56:33 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=561#comment-854 If you want to avoid making a screen capture, you can do the following: while in your browser, hit the escape key on the frame you want to “freeze.” In order to freeze another frame of the gif, you will have to reload the page and hit escape again.

Works in Firefox and IE, but not in Safari :)

]]> By: Laurel Eby http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/02/21/reference-question-of-the-week-21509/#comment-853 Laurel Eby Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:53:06 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=561#comment-853 There’s no Print Screen button on a Mac. To do a screenshot on a Mac, you can either type Apple+shift+3 to grab a shot of the entire screen, or Apple+shift+4 to drag your cursor around the area you want a screenshot of. Either way, the screenshot will be saved as “Picture 1.png” on your desktop.

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