Classic British Flight Sim

Hiya all,

Would anyone like to reccommend there best screenshot programme they use for Fs9/FSX please?

Now im back in simming and using 2 monitors, i use Fs9 on monitor 1 only, monitor 2 working my FSNAV/reference/photo material etc etc.

I cant remember which programme i used to use for as a single monitor screenshot programme on a duel setup , any ideas chaps?

Thanks

Jason

I use two different applications depending on my needs.

'Clipboard Monitor' which was made available by one of the members here a while back or 'Snapper' which has the ability to grab screens from the main, secondary or both monitors and can also add location info (lat., long., near to, etc.) to the screenshot which is pulled directly from your location in FS9 or FSX.

If I need to take a series of shots, I use Snapper too Jason

ATB
DaveB

I use ScreenHunter 5.1 Free for the primary monitor and ScreenshotCaptor.exe if I need to take a shot of both monitors.

Both allow one to save in various formats (with and without the mouse pointer). I save as bmps and edit the shots in PSP.

George

Don't forget that FSX comes with it's own in-built screenshot feature too. Just hit the 'V' key and images will be saved in .BMP format to your 'C:\Users\'Yourname'\Pictures\Flight Simulator X Files' folder. I tend to use that feature when I want high quality screenshots as the images are much better than Snapper or CBM as I have those set to capture in .JPG format. One thing I have found when using the in-built FSX screenshot grabber is that the images all need to be run through Photoshop (or similar) to have a slight sharpening effect applied as they appear to be slightly out of focus with soft edges by default.

Hi All,

Thanks for all your replies.

Ive just installed Snapper and it works a treat, just perfect.

Thanks again.

Snapper is great, though I have to say that since going from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit W7, I have had it crash a few times. No biggy as a restart of Snapper seems to work. I think it just gets bored sitting in the taskbar unused for long periods of time.

Pic Pick for me because it opens the screen capture in its own image editing software, so you can trim and resize it there and then, before saving it.