When your screenshot weights less than 500KB you can suggest it via this Mint community site. You can combine both approaches to achieve smaller image weight. indexed image looks ugly, then you have to Undo this change and try to reduce the size of the image as long as it will fit the 500KB restriction. If the difference between them is too big, i.e. Notice: You have to compare obtained image with your original image. Select Generate optimum palette, and type 256 as Maximum number of colors. If your image is larger than this, scale it to desired dimensions and save as PNG image with Compression level: 9. In my opinion good sizes are between 640x480 and 800圆00px (width x height). To open your screenshot in GIMP: right-click on the image file, and choose: Open With -> GIMP. If it is so, you can reduce its weight in two ways.

(you can check this by right-clicking on the image file and choosing Properties). Why? Because it's the time period in which you have to launch the application (mostly game) and start playing.Īfter you've chosen the delay click the Take Screenshot button, and then quickly launch the game, start playing, and wait until Save Screenshot window appears.Īfter you've made a screenshot, you probably notice that it weights more than 500KB. Next select Grab the current window, disable Include pointer option, disable Include window border, and choose Effect: None. To start Take Screenshot application: Mint Menu -> All applications -> Accessories -> Take Screenshot. What to do then? You can use Take Screenshot application to make a screenshot after a delay. Then you save it as a PNG image.īut sometimes - mostly in games - this shortcut doesn't work. Typically you can easily take a screenshot of an active window by using Left_Alt+Print_Screen keys. size etc.), and suggesting them via this community site. So I decided to write this short tutorial about taking screenshots of different kind of Software, preparing them for uploading (max. And it depends on us - the community - how many screenshots there will be. But unfortunatelly only a few of them does have one. First of all, the reason why I am writing this tutorial is the idea that I added recently: We have too few screenshots!Īs you all know, then you browse applications via Sortware Manager or this community site, every application has a place for a screenshot.

Quick desktop screenshot upload