#\:D/ : Screenshooting, cursor too

...with IrfanView

While Snipping Tool still delights me, today I learned to Capture a Screenshot with IrfanView that shows the mouse cursor! ... \:D/

In brief:

Open Irfan View -> Options -> Capture/Screenshot (check/modify settings)  

-> Start -> Ctrl-F11

Settings

Capture Setup has many controls. I set the capture area to Foreground window. I left capture method at default Hot Key CTRL+F11. I left default at including mouse cursor. And after the capture show in main window of IrfanView.

Yes will need to crop

But cropping--once I realised* how (when there is an image on the canvas and no paint tools selected, just left click drag, let-go, Ctrl+Y)--is also rather nifty in IrfanView, offering (via Edit -> Show selection grid) a golden ratio grid.

*(thanks to Lord Spam Magnet & Grinler at BleepingComputers)

PS - if you were wondering

• \:D/ in title is a Happy Dance
• the screenshot for which I wanted a cursor...
  
  ...relates to a possible future post about importing+keeping Google Search results for a google portion of a literature review.

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Part of my Wordpress→Blogger journey, this post copied (because it remains relevant today) 19/07/2019 in republication of my 31 July 2015 post at my experimental self-hosted Wordpress where it achieved 24 views.

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Flight #NLS7 LANDED Post-flight check

So many things to do, ASAP:

1. Reconnect with loved ones (my lovely sons picked me up from the airport late last night)
2. Respond to anything urgent that arose while I was gone (nope, all clear)
3. Unpack & clean (mm, in progress)
4. Sit, rest, think (perhaps next weekend)
5. Thank the organisers:
   • I had a great time, enjoying theme, presentations, venue, catering*, and overall experience; so bravo to the organising committee: Amy, Jeff, Holger, Kirsty, Lauren, Heather, Rob, Liz, Jessica, Gabrielle, Melissa M, Hiba, Vesna, Sarah, Melissa S, Janette.
   • ALIA
   • & sponsors: CSU (alma mater), ALLA, Oxford University Press, QUT and Jade.
6. Transfer notes - particularly capturing Action items (see posts to follow) (or I might add to the NLS7 Etherpad Stephen Chang started)
7. Thank presenters and participants (see posts to follow)
8. Report to and thank funder (me, this time--but I may still prepare a report).

What do you do when you return from conference?

* OMG YUM - Thank you Pot Belly - that was possibly some of the yummiest food I have ever eaten.

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Part of my Wordpress→Blogger journey, this post copied 26/12/2020 in republication of my 27 July 2015 post at my experimental self-hosted Wordpress where it achieved 22 views.

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Original post received 1 comment which I will append here:
(but if any of you want me to delete yours from this republished version, please tell me)

Cecilia said:
29 July 2015 at 11:13 pm
I am looking forward to my big conference. Hope it is as well catered for as yours. Favourite librarian can you please show me how to do an excel spreadsheet without my brain collapsing?