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Just Screenshots Help File

Just Screenshots was designed to bring your product screenshots off of the page and into your customers eyes. With Just Screenshots you can give visitors to your site a new perspective on your product by highlighting key features on specific screens. The ability to annotate a screenshot lets you get right to the point and shows your customer what your product can do.

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•	 Use the Quick Start guide or...

•	 Get right to work using the Perspective Wizard.

•	 Give your screenshot the perfect perspective to achieve the look you desire.

•	 Break the screenshot mold by masking your images.

•	 Highlighting a specific section.

•	 Saving/Loading vs. Importing/Exporting your data.

•	 Use graphics and text to enhance your screenshot.

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Bitmap pick list

In the Design View you will see a scrollbox that contains several default images. These images reside in the subidirectory BitmapImages that is created beneath the install directory. If you find that you are repeatedly adding default images to your screenshots copy the image into the BitmapImages subdirectory in BMP format. Simply double-click an image in this scrollbox to add it to the active frame.

If you do not want this option available to you it may be turned off from the View menu.


Options

Most of the default options are on this dialog, click the item above to find more out about the option.

The last option listed is the Resampling Method. This is the filter used when doing image resizing. Each filter is a bit different so you will want to experiment to find the one you like the best. Lanczos3 has the best appearance but the file sizes are generally larger. Hermite and linear do a decent job of keeping the image clear and make a smaller file size when saved.


(def.)
This will force the Perspective Wizard to open when you start the program.


Bitmap Toolbar Image size (def.)
Defines the width and height of the images that appear in the image area that appears on the right of the design window.


Auto add animation properties (def.)
With this checked the Animation Properties will be added to any newly created frame.


Open file dialog (def.)
With this checked the Open File dialog will be opened anytime a new image has been added to a frame.


Auto add text (def.)
With this checked a new text object will be added to any newly created frame.


Resample Method (def.)
Select which resampling method you want the program to use when resizing an image.


Auto-draw perpective view (def.)
When checked the perspective/mask image will be automatically refreshed when a new screenshot has been loaded.


Enhancing your screenshot
Perspective Wizard OptionEnhancing your screenshot

Using Frames you can add text and add other images on top of your screenshot to further educate your visitors on the importance of the screen you are showing.

Using the toolbars at the top or the menu structure you can add and remove frames and objects on these frames.

By adding text you can explain what is going on in a particular screenshot. This is perfect for when you have no control over the text around your screenshot, thus giving you a chance to explain any purpose the screen may have.

Some sites require very small screenshots and while we totally understand the bandwidth restrictions it can be hard for the user to see your screenshot in some cases. Here is a case where the highlight window combined with some text really makes your screenshot shine.

If you find you are adding a particular image to your screenshot you might want to add it to the pick list on the right of the Design View.


Quick Start

Step by Step Quick Start

Here is the quick and easy way to get started!

1.	Start the program

2.	Load a screenshot. Do this by clicking the Import button, File|Import Image... menu or click on the right click on the Screenshot field in the editor if it has focus. You may also Edit|Paste an image in while the Screenshot tab on the left is viewable.

3.	Click the Apply button or press F7!

4.	To have part of your screenshot highlighted in the final view set the Screenshot View window so that it is active and then use your mouse to select an area of the image. Right click and select the Use Selection option or press F6.

5.	Click on the Design Mode tab and you can position the objects as desired by dragging them around with your mouse. Adjust the appearance of the highlight area by making changes to the fields in the Highlight Area options on the Screenshot tab in the left portion of the program.

6.	Click on the Preview Mode tab and you can see your results!

7.	Export your image by clicking the Export button or using File|Export Image As... menu item. You can export it to one of several image styles, including GIF and JPG.

8.	Don't forget to save your template! Templates can be loaded and modified at a later time, images can't.


Masking images

The masking technique uses a mask image, shown on the right, to mask your screenshot, on the left, into the resulting image shown below.

For optimum results, when masking an image, you need to remember to turn off the shadow option. Set it to zero. Also some masks do not look as nice appearing as a perspective view. You'll have to play around and see what appeals to you. If you do not want to use a perspective view simply set the Perspective View option to None.

Selecting a mask file

To select a mask for your screenshot click the ellipse button to the right of the Mask Filename field. This will let you select a file from your local drive. After a new mask has been selected you will be prompted to apply the mask.

Defining your own masks

We've supplied over 50 masks that you can use but if you want to make your own mask follow these guidelines:

•	 Make the image at least 500x400 pixels. Most screenshots are smaller than the mask and will look ok when resized to the smaller size. They don't look as great when they are enlarged.

•	 Use an off color for the mask color. What this means is that you should not use black as your mask color if you are going to have black edges, like the shadow in the above example. In most cases fuschia will work just fine.

•	 The mask selection area, fuschia in the above example is selected based on the exact center of the image. Be sure that your masked area covers the center so that it appears correctly.


Rotating screens

You can rotate your screenshots after the perspective/mask properties have been processed. Image rotates clockwise and values range from 0 to 359.


 Deleting frame objects

To delete a frame object click on it with your mouse and either press the Delete key or right click and select Delete object from the popup menu.


 Adding frame objects

To add a frame object click on the button for the object you want to add from the toolbar at the top. Each object has a specific button. These buttons are only enabled if you have a frame selected on the left side of the screen and are disabled if you are working on the screen settings page.


Saving/Exporting

There are two different files that you will be working with, Templates and Images. You Load and Save templates while you Import and Export images. Images can be viewed in your browser, templates can only be read in by Just Screenshots.

Templates contain all the information to recreate and modify an image. The template houses the original screenshot, the perspective/masked view and the highlight area along with all the pertinent data to allow you to load and make any changes necessary. To generate a new image from your template you need to export your image using the format desired. Change the extension of the filename in the save dialog to set the type of image you wish to save as.


Text Appearance

Below are the options you have available for setting the appearance of the text on your screenshot. You will have this grouping for each text object you have in your frame.

After making a change press enter to have the button text updated in the view. In some cases you may have to press the refresh key, which is F5.

You may also select Edit|Paste to insert text from the clipboard into the selected screenshot frame.

Each frame can have numerous text and image objects. You may change the order of these objects by clicking on the appropriate toolbar button or menu option.

You may adjust the position using the editor or you can click on the object in the position window and move it with your mouse.


 Image Addition

Just Screenshots lets you overlay images on your screenshots. Click the Insert Image from either a menu or the button bar. You can right click on the image in the Preview panel or where the image appears in the inspector panel and then click on the load option.

You may also select Edit|Paste to insert an image from the clipboard into the selected button frame. If the screenshot tab is the active tab then the image will be pasted into the screenshot field and used as the the screenshot image.

You may also drag images from your browser into Just Screenshots as well. Dropping it onto the Design window will add it to the current frame or as the screenshot, depending on which tab is enabled. You can also drop these images onto the tab of the frame you wish to add the image to. The frame will be brought to the surface if it already isn't.

If you would like to set the image to appear transparently check the checkbox for this setting. The lower left pixel will of the image will be used as the transparency color.

Adjusting the Left and Top will position the image for you. You may also click on the image in the Design window and position it as desired with your mouse.


Highlighing an area

You can highlight an area of your screen that you can superimpose over your perspective/masked view of your screenshot. To do this click on the Screenshot tab in the notebook that appears on the right side of the program. Then click the mouse down and drag it over to another area. This "rubberbanding" is how you select an area to be used as the highlighted portion of your image. Use the grab handles to adjust it to cover the area you wish to have appear in your final image. Now right click and select the Use selection as highlight menu option. Pressing the F6 key will also update this area. Now click on the Design Mode tab and you can see your selection. If you resize the selection box it will resize the enclosed image. It will appear above your screenshot as shown in the image below.

You can enhance this highlighted area by using the features in the inspector on the left under the Screenshot tab.


Highlighted Area
Adjusting the Highlighted Area

Using these features you can adjust the appearance of the highlighted section of the screen. Define the shape, and if you are using a round rectangle you can adjust the corner's arc. You can specify the outline and shadow options as well.

If you choose not to use a section of the screen for your highlight you can right click on the Fill Image field and load a different image.


Perpective view
Adjusting the Perpective view

You can adjust the size of your perspective/masked screenshot by setting the Width and Height values to what you need. If you would like to keep the screenshot proportional set one of the values to -1. So if you want your screenshot to be 300 pixels wide and however tall in proportion you would set the Height value to -1.

There are currently 6 different perspective views that you can achieve with your screenshot. These are Front to Back, Back to Front, Left Corner, Right Corner, Left Box and Right Box. The first two simply take the whole screen and put it into a perspective view. It uses the Perspective Percentage value to determine what percentage of the full size to go down to.

If you use the corner or box model then the Fold Location value is used to determine the percentage over from the left side of the screen where the fold will occur.

You can give your screenshot a custom shadow color by setting the Shadow color to the desired color. If you do not want to have a shadow set this color to be the same color as your background. You can adjust the depth of the shadow by changing the value of the Shadow Depth field.


Perspective Wizard

To start the Wizard press CTRL-W. Using this wizard you can load a screenshot and image mask from your local drive and go back and forth between the page options and quickly view what your screenshot will look like in different perspectives. This is a live feature so changes you make in the wizard will automatically occur in the main area of the program.

If you change the Perspective Style the image will refresh automatically. If you change one of the numeric values simply click the refresh button. When you have what you are looking for click the next button until finished.

Remember that to keep an image in proportionally correct when specifying a size one value should always be set to -1.


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