How do you make a tutorial? Do you need a special programme? How do you get those screen shots. I would like to have a go at making one, only with text not with sound, like the ones on DPC but dont know where to start. Would be grateful for some pointers.
I think you can just write it in regular text -- Langdon can format it into HTML if you don't know how to do it.
On a PC, Shift-PrintScreen will copy you monitor to the Clipboard, you can then paste it into a new Photoshop document and work from there.
On a Mac, Command-3 should save the screen to an image file or PDF (depending on OS version) on the main level of your hard drive; I think Command-4 lets you draw a marquee if you only want part of the screen.
Paul, why shift-prtscrn instead of just prtscrn by itself? I know alt-prtscrn will capture only the active window instead of the whole screen, which is useful for grabbing dialogue boxes.
I think you can just write it in regular text -- Langdon can format it into HTML if you don't know how to do it.
On a PC, Shift-PrintScreen will copy you monitor to the Clipboard, you can then paste it into a new Photoshop document and work from there.
On a Mac, Command-3 should save the screen to an image file or PDF (depending on OS version) on the main level of your hard drive; I think Command-4 lets you draw a marquee if you only want part of the screen.
What programme do I use. Word? Do I just paste in the screen prints? You say photoshop document, what is that?
Word adds a bunch of junk to the HTML that needs to be stripped out for DPC or it will override the stylesheets.
My bad. I knew that the extra XML was in there. I just have a habit of stripping it out. I've done it so much for other things, that I simply forgot.
That's how I had submitted my tutorial and now I remember removing a lot of HTML before submitting. However, the time involved to remove it was quicker than if I hand-rolled my HTML from scratch. ;-)
At any rate, if Langdon formats it, then sending a plain Word doc is the way to go.
Paul, why shift-prtscrn instead of just prtscrn by itself?
On my PC keyboard, PrintScreen (actually PrtScrn) seems to be in the upper-case position on the key, with "SysRq" in the lower-case position, and using the Shift key with it always seemed to work so I didn't try anything else. Maybe it's an operating system issue -- I'm using W2000 Pro on this machine ...
