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Author Topic: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working  (Read 4337 times)

beau

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Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« on: May 07, 2018, 06:05 AM »
Once again, Edit > Preferences > Post-Capture Options > Add Border to Image  plus  > Special Effects Options > Border Color, Width, and Default Border Type  fails to add a border to captured images.
What's the fix for this?

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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2018, 09:27 AM »
That is just for changing the style of border that gets applied, WHEN you apply a border.
To actually add a border, from menu choose SpecialFX2->Border around Image, or use the toolbar button for it.

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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2018, 09:53 AM »
Hi Mouser ~
Sorry to be such a pain about this, but I just can't seem to get it back to my old setting where:
SHFT-PrntScreen > drag area  would bring up a simple window (not the whole SC window) showing the capture with a border,  with the Name box empty so all I'd have to do was enter a name and hit <Enter> and I'd have a saved image with border.

Now somehow I've got it to where when I capture, the whole ScreenShotCaptor window opens and the Name box has a long name in it which I must delete before naming, which is a real bother.

How can I get a border and, when captured, the simple window with empty Name box?

I know I've asked you about this at least three times before and I appreciate your patience.

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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2018, 09:56 AM »
Let's handle the simple and important one first.  To change what happens when you take a screenshot, go to preferences and Interface Tab, and choose "After Capture Show" as "Pop Up Choice Dialog":
Screenshot - 5_7_2018 , 9_54_43 AM.png

This is such an important setting that there are actually several places you can change it, from the right-click system tray menu, to the pop-up dialog itself.

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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2018, 09:57 AM »
Now the popup choice dialog presented after capture actually has several tweaks you can make to match your workflow, you can find them in the "Advanced Tweaking" - > Quick Bar and Post Cap preference tab, at the bottom.
Screenshot - 5_7_2018 , 9_57_43 AM.png

From that tab you can change things like where your cursor starts out when that post-capture pop up is shown, etc.

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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2018, 10:23 AM »
Okey-doke, I think I've got it now  :Thmbsup:
I've chosen PopUp Choice Dialog with the nice empty name box and the captures have the border I've defined . . it's just that in the PopUp Choice image window the border doesn't show, I think that may be what was confusing me .. but the border's there in the final saved image.

Thanks so much for your help, Mouser, I use SC many times every day (I sent you some bucks years ago when I first downloaded it!)

I've taken careful notes of this exchange, and saved the URL, so I won't have to bother you again . . hopefully! :o
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Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2018, 10:43 AM »
it's just that in the PopUp Choice image window the border doesn't show
Yeah, that's a bit confusing I admit.

Glad you got it working the way you want.