First, let’s capture and save the image.

Once you’ve submitted your game, go to your metaverse profile screen and press the “Print Screen” key. This will copy the entire screen into a memory buffer. On a standard keyboard, the Print Screen key is on the top right next to the F12 Key.



Open the Windows Paint program. It can be found under Accessories.

HINT: I like to make the default picture really small. That way, when I paste into it and enlarge the resolution, there’s no extra white space to get rid of.

From the EDIT Menu, click “Paste”. When it asks you if you want to enlarge the resolution, click “Yes”. Your screen capture will appear.


Choose the SELECT Tool from the Toolbox.


Using the SELECT Tool, drag a box around the area of the screen that you want to use as the image.


From the EDIT Menu, click “Copy”. This puts the area you just outlined in the box into the memory buffer.


Since there isn’t a Crop command in Paint, we need to use a workaround. In this case, we’ll just use the new memory buffer to create a new image. We no longer need the original screen shot, so from the FILE menu, click “New”.


From the EDIT Menu, click “Paste”. When it asks you if you want to enlarge the resolution, click “Yes”. Your new image will appear.


Under the FILE Menu, click “Save As”.


Choose a name and save the picture as a .JPG file. Use the drop down menu Save As window to choose .JPG.


Congratulations! You have now saved a screen capture.

MottiKhan, thank you for this useful summary.

One thing to add is that if you use "Alt-Print Screen" instead of "Print Screen" it actually saves only the selected window instead your entire desktop. This can save you some cropping in Paint, particularly if you have more than one monitor.

Also you can post images at ImageShack if you don't feel like registering. I won't go into the details of the usage of imageshack but they do allow you to resize images and they give you a wide variety of thumbnail, hotlink or direct link display options. The biggest downside is that I have seen some images disappear after a few months.

I personally always create the screenshot with no resizing and use the direct link option. This counts on the excellent feature of these forums that automatically thumbs large images to the largest acceptable size while allowing the full resolution to be viewed when clicked.

Good idea MottiKhan .

Great guide, MottiKhan.
Thanks for the effort you put into this, a very helpful post and a surprisingly
altruistic act from a member of the "Tyranny of Evil".
Two thumbs up.

Try all the key modifer keys like Alt, Ctrl, also the funky windows logo keys (what these do I have no clue). When in doubt you could read the manual or if you don't have it you should be able to find it based on the model number of your laptop.

It also could be context sensitive so try the Alt Printscreen for copy current window and go paste into paint and see what you get.

On my laptop, on the bottom left side of the keyboard is a button left of the Ctrl key that spells Fn. Fn will be highlighted blue. Hold this down and then hit the Ins/PrtSc. Hope that helps   After all, our laptops may be different.