Railhead001
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Hello,
I would like to take some time to give some quick tips for screenshots using windows 10, yes I said the "W" word. Within the last major updates to Windows 10 was a revamping of its photo editing tools. I guess MS has finally realized people want simplicity for making their pix look better, who can blame them. Some of you may be following my Bazemore Yard layout update thread in the TMR17 forum and notice I post a lot of pictures. Now for whatever reason when I take screenshots regardless if it is Trainz or on Steam they always seem to be a bit darker and not as sharp as I would like them to be.
Below are 4 shots using the screenshots directly from TMR17 and then the same picture after using the Windows 10 Photo editor:








As you can see there is a noticeable difference between the 1st and 2nd picture of each set. Also besides being brighter the 2nd picture is more sharp.
How is this achieved ? Simple. Just download your screenshot from the Trainz Gallery and put it on your desktop or save it to a folder. Next open the picture by double clicking on it. Then in the upper right hand side you will have several choices. Choose "Edit", next you can crop and rotate if you desire or just click on your picture under "enhance" you can move the center line to adjust to the way you want to look or choose from a filter towards the bottom for different effects. I like the Napa filter myself.

Anyway if you choose "save" it will overwrite your original picture or choose "save a copy" if you also want to keep the original. Pretty painless.....some other tools that are handy is the "draw" tool if need to make notes on your pictures....
I would like to take some time to give some quick tips for screenshots using windows 10, yes I said the "W" word. Within the last major updates to Windows 10 was a revamping of its photo editing tools. I guess MS has finally realized people want simplicity for making their pix look better, who can blame them. Some of you may be following my Bazemore Yard layout update thread in the TMR17 forum and notice I post a lot of pictures. Now for whatever reason when I take screenshots regardless if it is Trainz or on Steam they always seem to be a bit darker and not as sharp as I would like them to be.
Below are 4 shots using the screenshots directly from TMR17 and then the same picture after using the Windows 10 Photo editor:








As you can see there is a noticeable difference between the 1st and 2nd picture of each set. Also besides being brighter the 2nd picture is more sharp.
How is this achieved ? Simple. Just download your screenshot from the Trainz Gallery and put it on your desktop or save it to a folder. Next open the picture by double clicking on it. Then in the upper right hand side you will have several choices. Choose "Edit", next you can crop and rotate if you desire or just click on your picture under "enhance" you can move the center line to adjust to the way you want to look or choose from a filter towards the bottom for different effects. I like the Napa filter myself.

Anyway if you choose "save" it will overwrite your original picture or choose "save a copy" if you also want to keep the original. Pretty painless.....some other tools that are handy is the "draw" tool if need to make notes on your pictures....
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