4/22/2012
Recently while helping a woman in a Skype group I belong to, I realized that it is imperative to have a screenshot of the computer sometimes to see what the person I am helping is seeing. She was a very old lady with not much computer experience at all so she had no clue how to do a screenshot so I could view her screen as she was seeing it. So here is how a screenshot it done on a PC and Macs.
For Macs, you would use your Grab application, which is located in Applications>Utility>Grab. It is a very handy little application that is invisible but worth a lot when you need to share what your screen looks like with others. No amount of words can take the place of an actual screenshot. It can take a screenshot instantly or timed for about ten seconds. I use it a lot and I mean a LOT. I keep the icon on my Dock. It does all the work for you. However, when you save it, it is saved as a tiff, which is a huge pixel grabbing graphic. Once you save it to your desktop—or wherever you want to save it—you should change it to a jpg, which is much smaller in pixels for when you might want to send it to someone. We're talking MBs reduced to a few KBs. Huge difference.
For PC Windows users, here is what you do.
Press PrtScn on the upper right of your keyboard. Windows then captures the entire screen and copies it to the clipboard. This could be a tad different depending on your computer and keyboard.
It is now on the "clipboard." Now you want to put it into your Paint Program as a graphics file.
Start Paint, paste it into Paint by holding Ctrl and press V, which is pasting it. Then click Save.
It can now be put into a document or an email by pasting it in with Ctrl+V.
It is now on the "clipboard." Now you want to put it into your Paint Program as a graphics file.
Start Paint, paste it into Paint by holding Ctrl and press V, which is pasting it. Then click Save.
It can now be put into a document or an email by pasting it in with Ctrl+V.
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3/5/2012
This is an update that I should have put in months ago. The old editor is staying. I posted to the Blogger blog and asked if they would keep it. They have. I believe they truly listen to their users and try their best to make us happy. So if you have a problem with something, let them know. I think they're being most accommodating.
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I've had several bloggers recently ask me how to get their blog functioning properly without the long spaces between photos. That's due to using the New editor. I can tell immediately when a blogger is using the Old one or the New one. Not only are there long spaces between photos but their photos and text are all askew. I thought I'd do a tiny tutorial on it.
I use the Old editor and love it; however, it is going to be gone soon, so I'll have to just get used to the New one. The Old one is more "stable", if you will, but also the Old one allows me to upload 5 photos at a time, reducing the time much faster than adding one at a time with the New editor. While there's nothing we can do about it, we sure can make sure the blog post looks better than some I've seen where I'm not sure what text goes with what picture.
Here I put in my pix first and then added this text.
Here I'm putting in the text first and then adding the photo. If done properly, there is no reason to have your text and photos spread out weirdly. Just be careful. See, it can be done properly either way. Patience is the key...mostly.
Below is a screenshot of what happens when you download a photo to your post. You will see by the arrow where you can set the size to Small, Medium, Large, X-Large or Original. I set this screenshot to Original but since it's 1920 x 1080 there is no way that my blogger template—Minima Stretch—can handle that so it was automatically sized X-Large, but clickable to the original size of 1920 x 1080 and much more viewable and readable when clicked on. I suggest at this point you CLICK on the photos to see what I mean. (The red lines, but not the arrow, are to preserve what privacy I can while on here.) Now, I could have reduced the size to 800 pixels wide or even 1000 pixels wide but then you wouldn't be able to see it as clear. So I left it at its Original size so you would be able to click to see it. As you can see by looking at the photos above this, which are sized at 800 pixels wide, this one is a tad smaller—less wide. That is a blogger thing and nothing I can do about it UNLESS I choose to make it the same as above, thereby not being seen HUGE when clicked. When the first 2 photos are clicked they are exactly the same size as they appear on here—800 pixels wide. Understand? I am betting you didn't know that. So, if you want them clickable for others to see something significant, that is what you would want to do. (BTW, when I look at this as I'm typing this editorial, there is NO space between this line of text I'm typing here and the screenshot below, so I'm doing the best I can with what blogger is offering me...unless I want to go in and do the HTML and I don't particularly want to do that but I just may at some point. That's a WHOLE other issue and you really don't want to if you're not at all familiar with HTML and how it works.)
Okay, let's talk about getting the text and photos lined up properly. Yes, there are some bloggers who have mastered this and while it can be frustrating to some who aren't as familiar with how it works, it can be done. Just be patient. I strongly suggest that you DO NOT upload all your photos at once. One at a time and you would probably do just fine. Put in text and then add photo. More text and then photo. I put my text above my photos and some put it below their photo. It's just my preference to do it this way. So, if you want your text below your photo, put in your photo first and then add your text beneath it. Here is what I did and see, there are no long spaces. Here again there is no space before I put in the photo of Miss C, although it looks like a space as you will see in another screenshot just below this photo of her.
One more thing before I end this. If you choose the new Blogger Dashboard as your default Dashboard, you will have no choice in the editor you use; you will ONLY be allowed to use the new editor.
So that is basically it. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at the email I've set up on my sidebar.
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