<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Colin McGregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin.mc151@hotmail.com">colin.mc151@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>Robert does make a fair comment, anyone with more artistic talent than me should likely take other routes than starting with a screen shot ... This noted, to answer Clifford's question, here is how I took a screen shot to act as the basis for my fan art:<br>
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- Logged into my "main" Linux desktop box running KDE (as opposed to Gnome)<br>
- Downloaded an episode of the show I was interested in from my MythTV box to my desktop box<br>
- Started Totem Movie Player and loaded in the TV show I was interested in<br>
- Played and then paused at the image that I wanted as my fan art starting point<br>
- Started up KSnapshot and set a snapshot delay of 10 seconds<br>
- Clicked on "New Snapshot"<br>
- QUICKLY brought Totem Movie Player back up and toggled full screen mode.<br>
- Waited long enough to make sure the snapshot was taken and exited full screen mode.<br>
- Saved the image from KSnapshot.<br>
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There you are, a way to get a TV show / movie screen shot, ugly but workable... But to put a bit of emphasis on Robert's point the above is not the route to great fan art (usable, tolerable maybe, but not great stuff...).<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help. I did find artwork online, but I am worried about copyright. The movie database has been updated with my modification of the images. But in the future I hope to find a way to generate my own images. Or at least images directly from the video. I downloaded videocut to see if it will allow high quality images directly from the video. Once I have a chance to play with the software, I will post my results here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Clifford</div></div>