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GinkgoWerkstatt — .:How to make a Preview Image
Published: 2010-06-30 20:14:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 12245; Favourites: 89; Downloads: 0
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Just a quickie, so don't expect anything too fancy.While browsing i see journal skins/templates without a proper preview. That is not only annoying if you check for miscats but also bad if someone is interested in using a skin, but has no idea how it looks like.
And it lowers chances that anyone will use that skin...
So there might be people that have no idea how to make a nice preview and hopefully this will help them. In case they ever find it
Shortcuts for MAC:
Shift+CMD+3: screenshot of the whole screen
Shift+CMD+4: lets you select the part of the screen you need (without cropping)
Thanks for ~BoomBox-Creations
Skin used for the tutorial:
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My tutorials/guidelines 
CSS Guideline [link] Old vs Gruze Journals [link] Ungruze your Journals [link] How to add image paths [link] How to add a gallery CSS [link] How to make a journal layout [link] ABC of dA CSS Part I [link] ABC of dA CSS Part II [link] How to add CSS to Groups [link] How to create a new Stylish Script [link] More can be found here: [link]
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Comments: 57
Well, that is the point, it doesn't print your whole browser, you can select the area that you need, they have couple of options.
But, i guess it's just the matter of choice.
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Ah ok, i always thought that they make always a screenshot of the whole window. Good to know!
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If you hit Alt+PrintScreen it will only capture the current open window. That saves a lot of cropping later on.
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Oh cool, didn't know
But for this kind of screenshots it doesn't really matter how big the screenshot is. You have to crop anyway
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