Have you tricked your computer?

Sorry i got a little behind on my blog. My computer was visiting the psychiatrist! ;) [haha, because it had problems.] A few classes ago, we were introduced to something that made our lives, by far, so much easier, and saved a huge amount of time spent in photoshop. Light screen! In my opinion, this is a great program to use if you want to cut all the time spent in photoshop or paint. As you know, every grade 9 BTT class is working on making our Word book the best it can possibly be. Each person is responsible for one feature on word, but you can do more if you want more marks. We are then going to publish these books, and sell them to teachers who need help with Word. A way to make the book as understandable as possible, we need screen shots of the features we are talking about. So here is where lightscreen comes into view. It is a program in which you can use to take screen shots of your part, easily and very quickly. This is what it looks like.


You simply click on the Screenshot area, and four options come up. Most of the times, you will choose Area. And when you click that, your whole screen goes dark and then you just choose the area you want to show. Once you've done that, your image will appear in the Light Screen folder.
You can find this feature on the school computers, in the pick-up folder. Under Case BTT. And you will see a folder that says Light Screen. You cant use this feature off of the pick-up folder. You first have to drag it to your desktop, and then download it into your home drive. But make sure that when your installing it into your home drive, turn off desktop shortcut and start menu shortcut. You can always install this feature onto your computer at home. If you want to send it to yourself by email, the trick is to right click on the program, go to properties and change the ending from exe to jpg [a picture file]. You have to do this because when you want to attach the lightscreen file, it wont allow you, so you trick the computer into thinking it is a big picture file. Attach your file, and when you get home, download it onto your computer, then go to its properties and change it back into an exe file. Then you can use it from there.
Also don't forget about finishing your tutorial because we are going to start publishing them soon. And make sure you use the template Mr.Case made so that everybodys' looks the same.

That's about it.
Bye.

Peggy .