Advanced screenshotting techniques and tips
This discussion over on WoW Ladies has me thinking that we probably need to do a post on something I don’t think we’ve ever covered before: screenshotting. Sure, they’re everywhere — almost everybody sees tons of screenshots every single day, and occasionally, you can even win some real-life loot for taking one. But I don’t know that we’ve ever actually covered the mechanics of how to take one. So let’s do that now. First and foremost, taking a screenshot is usually bound to your “Print Screen” key — whenever you’re playing the game, just hit that key on your keyboard, and a screenshot (in JPG format — it used to be saved in TGA, but Blizzard changed that a while ago) will show up in the /Screenshots folder inside the World of Warcraft installation on your hard drive. Of course, on a Mac keyboard, there is no Print Screen button, so I have mine bound to the “Home” button instead — you can rebind it to whatever you want in the options menu. And that’s just the basics — it gets more complicated from there. First thing you’ll probably want to do is pretty the screenshot up
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