The RKCSoP (Lesson One)

[Mumon]

(The Rubi-Ka Corispondance School of Photography)

All right you have all seen my screen shots (or perhaps you haven't... it doesn't matter) and now I will be starting the RKCSoP. I will be doing this in steps with each post being a new lesson. But there are a few standing rules that I will mention in each lesson. Never just take one screen shot. Be creative.

Lesson one, (area clutter) Anything you don't want in the picture should not be in it. Take the time to turn off extra menus that are not needed, and to hide the chat lines at the bottom. If this is to be a group shot of a specific group of people, make sure people you don't want in the picture are not there. A good way to make sure of this, is have the picture taken at a private location, that only the people that are to be in the picture know the position of. Or if it's going to be at a public place, politely (and I stress politely) ask if you can have use of a room or area for a screen shot. Perhaps offer to pay people to go away, or at least stand aside.

Also unless you want people to see everyone's name, turn the names off.

Last tip is to make sure you have the mouse out of the way. I've had more than one picture ruined because I couldn't crop the mouse out of my picture. So using what I've said in just this lesson, here are two shots... one using the rules and one not using the rules.

[Mumon]

All right so it shouldn't be that hard to find out what one is the less cluttered. (On a side note, I think the one that is a bit cluttered is a bit funnier, but I realy wasn't aiming for funny)

Now by no means are either of these shots all that interesting. It will be later lessons that will demonstrate how to make interesting screen shots. (Though I hear some people like screen shots of Atrox behinds)

This lesson's main focus was how to maximize your camera area. Stay tuned for lesson 2 intitled - It's a screen shot but is it art? -

[Tacz]

quick unrelated question. Where do you get that GUI?

[Mummu]

uh u mean that new standart gui?