Screenshot

A screenshot is a saved image of exactly what you see on your monitor screen. In DDO, screenshots are taken by pressing Ctl + p. Pictures are saved as .jpg's, and can be found in Start Button/Documents/Dungeons and Dragons Online by default, or wherever you installed the game if you used a custom option to do so. Each screenshot is given a sequential number in that file as a filename, but these can be changed as you prefer.

To post a screenshot in the DDO Forums, you must first upload your file to an image hosting site, and then link that address of the image in your forum post between [img] and [/img] tags.

Pro tips:
 * Pressing Alt + z will clear the screen of all visible User Interface controls (hotbars, mouse pointer, focus orb, map, etc.), giving you a clean "non-gamer" picture (although you can still use hotkeys to control them). Pressing Alt + z again will make the controls visible again.
 * Note that the Rune Arm charging overlay will still be visible even without the UI controls, so be sure to turn off charging and fire it off first!


 * If you wish to view your character from an angle other than directly behind, use the 4 & 6 keys to pan the view to one side or the other of your character without spinning the character itself, allowing you to view your character from a side or front angle. 8 & 5 will pan Up/Down, and 7 & 9 will zoom out/in.
 * 4/6 = pan Left/Right
 * 8/5 = Higher/Lower view
 * 7/9 = zoom Out/In


 * Zooming your view in 100%, by either rolling your mousewheel forward or using the 9 key, will give you a view from the eyes of your character, and so your character will not be visible in the screenshot.


 * You may wish to edit your screenshot, to either crop it down, perhaps to focus on just one part of it, or to add letters/numbers/graphics etc. Simple "Paint" programs (in both Mac and Windows) will work just fine; simply open the original screenshot, edit it using the program, then Save (as a diff file name if you want to protect the original!). Then upload the edited version as above.