How do I grab a screen shot of my screen saver in action?
 

I've seen a few screen shots here in the forum, and I was wondering how to pull it off?:D

The easiest way is to hit the "Print Screen" button while its running. Then you can go to the program of your choice, depending on what you have, and paste it there and then work with it. If you have something like Photoshop, there are tons of things that you can do, if not you can use something like Paint.

Screen Shot?
 

I am using a Mac - there is no print screen button on my keyboard....

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OOOps, my bad. I failed to look at the heading and was used to answering posts about Windows OS's. Having never fooled much with Mac's, you have me at a disadvantage on this one. I would think that there should be some "capture" method that would accomplish the same thing. Feldon works with Mac's on occassion, so he should have a definate solution for you if you can't find one. But, hopefully the basic process should be the same.

Thanks again...
 

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I guess if you are really quick with your fingers, you can try to use the universal Mac screen capture keyboard shortcut (dunno if this works on Mac OS X):

Command (http://charlotte.med.nyu.edu/gifs/cmdkey1.gif)-Shift-3

It will dump a screen snapshot named "Picture 1" at the root of your main hard drive.

Assuming this keyboard shortcut works on Mac OS X, if you press it fast enough maybe you'll get a shot before the Aquarium exits.

I think if your turn off "Exit on Mouse Move" this also prevents stray keypresses from closing the Aquarium (only Esc or Q works). You might also have better success running the Aquarium in a large window instead of fullscreen when trying to take a snapshot.

Command and 3 won't do it either...
 

That ordinarily works for screen captures, but unfortunately it immediately disables the screen saver and snaps a pic of my desktop...thanks though - I think a time delayed Applescript might do the job if I can figure out how to build a delay in for the saver to run first....not that this is a critical necessity - I just thought I could make some of my email pals jealous...

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You can't capture the screensaver or the app in full screen in OSX, I don't think, but you can capture the app in a window by pressing Apple/Shift-4 and then drawing a square around it with the mouse. Or the new way of capturing a window is to press Apple/Shift-4 and then the space bar. Your cursor will become a big camera icon that will then capture whichever window you click on. Or you can capture almost full screen by running the MA saver on the desktop using Backlight or Xback and then pressing Apple/Shift-3 to capture the whole screen. It'll be really clean if you get all the stuff of your desktop first and hide the dock. Then you'll only see the menubar (which will be hidden underneath the real menubar if you want to later use the capture as a desktop wallpaper.) On the other hand, Marine Aquarium inexplicably it seems looks about 3 times as clear and sharp in OS9 where you CAN capure if fullscreen with Apple/Shift-4 so if you are really trying to impress someone reboot in 9.2 for the job! Too much information?

The Grab utility can do delayed captures. I don't know if it works for screen savers, but it SHOULD.

Nope, it doesn't 'grab' savers.

Solution! (kinda sorta...)
 

By using a little app called "Backlight", You can run the saver on the desktop and grab a screen shot from there. I moved all of my icons off the desktop (a little bit of a trick in itself) and snapped a shot. Very cool. Backlight is also very cool, check it out at Macupdate.com.

Thanks everyone for the assist/info...

Re: Solution! (kinda sorta...)
 

Wow! I wish I'd thought of that! :-]

OK, ya got me...
 

Ooops, musta missed yer post - sorry dude...


(Duh)

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