Having some fun with the Paint program. I thought I had attached this to the previous post.Thursday, September 3, 2009
Screen Capture: An Aha Moment
Image Capture Activity
Chris Ware
September 3, 2009
Ever had one of the D’oh moments like Homer Simpson? That’s about how I felt when I read about the print screen function from the link. I didn’t know it could be used to capture an image. I actually needed this function last month for a PowerPoint presentation, but was told the only way to capture what I wanted was to have a screen capture program since what I was wanting couldn’t be highlighted and copied.
I found an image on a blog of the making Fiends cartoon. My kids and my students really enjoy them as well as the podcasts. I captured the screen and placed it in Paint, then cropped out most of it. Then playing with some of the tools, I turned the picture into a decorated comic strip. I think this would be a good writing activity to use with my students. I could just imagine some of the pictures they could capture and write dialog for. They could create comic strips, political cartoons, or captions. I even made a very rudimentary speech bubble. Paint seems a little crude, but I guess you could zoom in to work in more detail.
I saved this image as a JPEG, with a file size of 49.3 KB. It opens on my computer with Windows Photo Gallery.
Chris Ware
September 3, 2009
Ever had one of the D’oh moments like Homer Simpson? That’s about how I felt when I read about the print screen function from the link. I didn’t know it could be used to capture an image. I actually needed this function last month for a PowerPoint presentation, but was told the only way to capture what I wanted was to have a screen capture program since what I was wanting couldn’t be highlighted and copied.
I found an image on a blog of the making Fiends cartoon. My kids and my students really enjoy them as well as the podcasts. I captured the screen and placed it in Paint, then cropped out most of it. Then playing with some of the tools, I turned the picture into a decorated comic strip. I think this would be a good writing activity to use with my students. I could just imagine some of the pictures they could capture and write dialog for. They could create comic strips, political cartoons, or captions. I even made a very rudimentary speech bubble. Paint seems a little crude, but I guess you could zoom in to work in more detail.
I saved this image as a JPEG, with a file size of 49.3 KB. It opens on my computer with Windows Photo Gallery.
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