Screenshots and thumbnails - Light Alloy Guide

# Screenshots and thumbnails

Light Alloy capable to take individual screenshots, screenshots bundle and thumbnails.

Pay attention: if you have set "together with video" for OSD-messages, they will be on screenshots as part of image.

## Screenshots and thumbnails settings

You can set desired options in Preferences \ Video \ Screenshots tab:

Overlay info OSD will be present on individual screenshots and screenshots bundle.

To overlay OSD applied same parameters and rules just like in information line.

About particular qualities of misc formats used to save screenshots you can read in FAQ.

## Making screenshots and thumbnails

You can do it by clicking save picture button it's popup menu:

### Create individual screenshot

You can make it by clicking left mouse button on save picture button. File will be saved to folder that you set in Preferences menu. Name to file will be generated automatically based on video file name and position on timeline. Also you can save screenshot to clipboard there, without saving it to hard disc drive.

### Screenshots bundle

You can do it via popup menu of save picture button by clicking on "Save package of full-sized screenshots". They will be saved into folder you set in Preferences menu, with file extension that you set there. There will be 6 screenshots (amount you can change with hidden setting called "ScreenshotsPack_Count" in LA.xml). If there is already created screenshots, they will be overwritten.

### Thumbnails

You can create thumbnails via popup menu of save picture button. However, you will see window with some settings:

Further you will be proposed to choice where to save thumbnail file (by default - folder, that you set in Preferences menu). Pay attention, thumbnails will be saved in format and quality that you had set in Preferences \ Video \ Screenshots tab. In save window you cannot change image format.

When all is done, in save folder you will see a image with thumbnails like this: