Please Help with Grab Application

Amie · #1 July 8th, 2005, 11:54 AM

I'm going NUTS. Grab seems like a pretty straightforward, easy-to-use application. And I've already figured out how to capture screen shots and save them. However, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to paste the screen shots into another window. For example, the other day I was browsing a forum and saw that someone had posted into their post right above the text a screen shot image--NOT an attached photo or file but an actual screen shot that was posted into the body of their message. How can I do this with Grab?...

(I'm running Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9.)

Thanks for any help. I hope SOMEone can help me here! I've read all sorts of Grab instructions, help, tutorials, and they all tell me what I already know! NONE of them mention anything about pasting the image into another window as a screen shot--NOT as an attached file.

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 July 8th, 2005, 12:16 PM

I don't think you can copy-and-paste a screenshot directly into a window in your web browser -- I think what that person must have done is uploaded the picture to their own webserver, then linked to that image from here...

Amie · #3 July 8th, 2005, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

I don't think you can copy-and-paste a screenshot directly into a window in your web browser -- I think what that person must have done is uploaded the picture to their own webserver, then linked to that image from here...

Actually, it was just an image of one of their private message windows from another forum--nothing that was uploaded to a pesonal Web page. Any idea how they did that?

ex2bot · #4 July 8th, 2005, 10:57 PM

Do you have a link we can check out?

Doug

Randman · #5 July 9th, 2005, 03:01 AM

Probably wasn't Grab. You can so shift-option-3 for a desktop picture. Shift-option-4 and you can select a portion of a window to take a screenshot of (by dragging), or shift-option-4 then the space bar where you get a camera icon to take a screenshot of a particular window open and only that window.

Randman · #6 July 9th, 2005, 03:03 AM

bobw · #7 July 9th, 2005, 09:43 AM

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Actually, it was just an image of one of their private message windows from another forum--nothing that was uploaded to a pesonal Web page. Any idea how they did that?

But it WAS uploaded, either to the persons own personal web space and linked to, or uploaded to the forum to be displayed.

Amie · #8 July 9th, 2005, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Randman

OK, see--that right there! That little screen shot image that you just posted! How did you DO that?!?!?! And why did it now show up when I quoted you here--it just shows up as:

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I already know how to use Grab to take screen shots and save them to my desktop (or wherever), etc. But my question is: How do I PASTE the screen shots into another window, like you did above?