Advice on how to take a screenshot (1985)

I used to do this!

An Olympus OM4 with slide film, in a darkened room. The camera's utomatic exposure worked best.

Experimenting with Vista Pro (the original landscape generator!), it was possible to generate stereo images of a scene. And the graphics - for the time - were incredible. With careful lighting and texturing, it was possible to get nearly photorealistic results.

So I had the thought to photograph the monitor image onto slide film, then use a 3D stereo viewer (like this 'Pinsharp Stereo Slider Viewer': https://www.berezin.com/3d/pinsharp.htm).

The views were stunning! A real sense of depth and place, looking past leafy trees, down into valleys and ravines...

Ha, I remember reading similar advice in an issue of GamePro. They had a section in the back for accolades when someone beat a game or got a high score, and you had to send them a photograph for proof.

(Uphill both ways in the snow, etc. etc.)

It’s amusing that to many these days, the most straightforward way to take a screenshot they know is to snap a photo of it with their phone camera.

Snagit; saving us from this since 1990.

Just be sure to paste it into Word or Excel before sending it off to the IT helpdesk.

Apple + Shift + 4... remember to hit Space Bar after to capture one window at a time.

Or Skitch, FireShot, Jira Capture, Marker.io...