13 « October « 2008 « Rockout with Luckchew and the Penguin Gang

How To Take Your Own Pictures In Club Penguin

October 13, 2008

Lately we have had a few new friends ask us how to take their own photos at Club Penguin. This is pretty easy once you know how and it can be a lot of fun, espically if you would like to make your own Club Penguin Blog.

The first thing you need to do is to log onto Club Penguin.

Log onto Club Penguin

Click on your Penguin. While your Penguins picture is open you can change your outfit to how you want to look in your picture.

Click on your Penguin

Now look down at your keyboard and and you should have a row of keys that have the letter F and a number on them, at the end of these keys, there should be a key with PrtScn written on it.

Click on the PrtScn Button.

A picture of a key board and the location of the Print Screen Key

When you click the PrtScn Button it will take a picture of what ever you have on your computer screen.

Next you need to paste that picture into a document.

One of the most common programs you can use is Paint. Paint is a standard program that comes with Microsoft and is located in the Accessories of your Programs. See the image below.

Locating your Accessories Paint Program

Just open up the Paint Program, and then click on the Edit Button and click Paste.

Using your Paint Program Instructions

Now you should have a picture of the screen that you were looking at when you pressed the PrtScn Button.
Next you need to select the area of the Picture that you want to keep
At the right of the screen you will see a tool area, click on any of these buttons to deselect your Picture.
Now click on the selection tool at the top right of the tool area. The image below shows an arrow to this tool button.
Next you need to create a box around the area that you want to keep from your screen Picture.
After you have selected the area to keep, click on the Edit Button and click Copy to. See the Image below.

Using Your Paint Program to make Pictures

After you click the Copy to Button a new screen will appear for you to name your picture.
Type in the name and click Save.
Your Picture will then be save to the file selected. Below I selected My Pictures.

Using Your Paint Program to make Pictures

Now just close Paint and go to the folder that you saved your new picture to and have a look at your New Penguin Photo.

A cropped picture of my Club Penguin, Penguin, Luckchew

Their a lots of other programs you can use, We use Photoshop.

Photoshop Instructions

First I open up Photoshop and create a new blank document by clicking the File, then New. If you have just pressed your PrtScr Key the new document should automatically create a document the same size as your screen, in my case that is 1024x 768 pixels.

Open a new document in Photoshop

Next I click on the Edit Button and then click Paste. This will paste the picture from my screen.

Now paste the picture into your new Photoshop document

Now you should have a picture of the screen you were looking at when you pressed the PrtScn Button.

A picture of how to work with Photoshop

Next you need to selected the area that you want to keep by using the Rectangular Marquee Tool.
The Rectangular Marquee Tool is the very top left Button located in the Tool Panel to the left of your picture.
With the Rectangular Marquee Tool selected draw a rectangle around your Penguin Picture.
Next select the Image button and then click Crop.
The Image below shows the location of the Crop button.

a picture of how to work with a photoshop document.

After you crop your picture, you should have a picture of your Penguin, ready to be saved for your Blog or email.
Now you need to Save your picture for the Internet, do this by clicking on the File Button and then click Save for the Web.
The Image below shows the location of the Save for the Web Button.

A picture of how to work with a Photoshop Document.

Next your will see a picture of your Penguin as it will look on the internet.

A p[picture of how to work with a Photoshop Document.

A picture of how to work with a Photoshop Document.

Click the Save Button and Name your picture and Save it to your Documents. It will save your picture and then you will go back to your Photoshop Document. If you don’t need to make any changes just close that document and your all done.