Tip for the readability of AARs

[Aditia]

I really enjoy reading AARs, but 1 thing makes them less readable, and that is super wide screenshots.

Having to scroll sideways really isn't a reader's delight [:-]

Using snipping tool (or equivalent) to make your screenies, as to not show pointless part of the map, really helps with this.

Edit: Snipping Tool comes standard with windows and is stupidly easy to use.

Write on! [&o][&o][&o]

[jwolf]

The effect could be mitigated by putting line breaks in the text so that only the pic is super wide. But I haven't seen anyone do that. I agree it's an irritating problem, though some AARs are just so great that we readers will put up with just about anything to read them! [:'(]

[sillyflower]

ORIGINAL: Aditia



Using snipping tool (or equivalent) to make your screenies,

I have no idea how to do this

[Aditia]

ORIGINAL: sillyflower

ORIGINAL: Aditia



Using snipping tool (or equivalent) to make your screenies,

I have no idea how to do this

What operating system are you using?

[BrianG]

I am a wide screen poster.

Sorry.

I would shrink to size if I could do it in 2 or 3 seconds.

Alas I only have so much time to fiddle.[;)]

[BrianG]

actually, someone or Microsoft should invent a side ways scroll on the mouse besides the up and down .
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[Aditia]

ORIGINAL: BrianG

I am a wide screen poster.

Sorry.

I would shrink to size if I could do it in 2 or 3 seconds.

Alas I only have so much time to fiddle.[;)]

Snipping Tool let's you do just that, which is why I recommend it.
I use it in work quite a lot. I have a screenshot made and pasted into a business email in a couple seconds, as opposed to the old way of having to open a graphical program like Paint to work the screenshot just taken with the Print Screen button.

[zakblood]

i'm just glad and happy to read and see others enjoying what they play, so thanks to all for making them[&o]

[timmyab]

I've tried resizing pics in the past but for some reason I don't understand they are still huge when posted into the aar. It actually made things worse because they were then grainy and huge.

[sanderz]

lots of ways to do it but i use irfanview (its free), http://www.irfanview.com/


press the windows print screen button to get a screenshot
open irfanview
ctrl-V to paste in your screenshot
drag a box around the bit you want to keep
then go to "edit" and "cut area outside of selection"
save as .jpg

[EwaldvonKleist]

Maybe I am alone with that view but i prefer to have the full picture because it contains all the Information-trucks, APs, weather and what is happening somewhere else.
Scrolling to the side with the arrow keys or zooming in/out with the mouse wheel/Ctrl is easy and does not bother me.
Best way of course is what MichaelT is doing: Make one big picture of the entire frontline out of the many screen.

[Stelteck]

AAR also can take a lot of time so there is always a tradeof to do between time and readability&organisation display.

[Aditia]

ORIGINAL: Stelteck

AAR also can take a lot of time so there is always a tradeof to do between time and readability&organisation display.

I'll stop going on about it after this, but if you have windows, please give snipping tool a try. It makes for faster posting and better readability. No trade off involved... Just make your screeny and hit the save button.

[Stelteck]

Thanks for the tool, definitely worth a try.