Help:Screenshot Guide
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You want to contribute to TibiaWiki by making screenshots?
You need some help to start?
Here you can find some useful anwsers.
First thing to do is to find the object you want to make a picture of. Good examples are NPCs with no picture or Plants like some rare ones in Tiquanda. Walk to the object and then your task begins.
1. Your window size must be from the highest quality, in order to do this go to options
--> graphics 
--> advanced 
Now check the checkbox which says, Don't Stretch/Shrink Game Window. This changes the size of the screen so that the images are clearer. It may be difficult to look at, but it is necessary.
Also, uncheck the checkbox which says, Show Light Effects. This gets rid of any colored lights, as well as making it easier to tell if there is any shadow or darkness on an object. This may cause black pixels to appear, overlaying the normal graphics. This is in place of darkness (such as night). 
Now go back to the game, in most cases your game window has become smaller.
Note the differences between the two:
2. In order to have a good screenshot the exposure must be perfect. If your object is above ground always try to wait until it's Tibian Day. During the day, there should be no areas with those black pixels over them.
When taking the screenshot, be sure that the object you are trying to take a picture of is not at all covered by black pixels. If there is not enough natural light (such as underground), try using light spells or light creating items. These are a few light sources that can be useful:
3. Now the circumstances are good you can almost take the screenshot, be aware that if you take a screenshot of a NPC he/she must be facing south, with his face fully visible from the front like this one: 
. Also if you make a screenshot of an Object it must be fully visible, no other objects must hang before it. If you can move the object, if it is an Item you better place it on a background which is flush and has a contrast with your item. Example: if you have a dark item you can put it in the desert which is light.
4. Now, take the screenshot by pressing the Print screen key. 
5. After pressing on this key it will look like nothing happened, that's because you need to paste your screenshot first. Open a drawprogram like Paint and press
ctrl + v. Your screenshot will now appear in Paint. Press the button to select an area 
(marked red in picture) and select a square around the object from which you want to make a screenshot. You can have a bit of background around your object when selecting the square, this is easier and you can always remove it later.
6. Now you press your right-mouse-button on your selected square around your screenshot object. Select the option copy to... and then select the place where you want to save it, e.g. D:\pictures\tibia\screenshots
7. The only thing that remains is clearing the background, if you want to make a good picture you must make the background transparent. In order to do this you must have a program which is not standard included in windows, there are different programs which can do this. I prefer GIMP which can be downloaded here. Simply click on download and you will be redirected to another download page, there you can download it. After downloading you must install it. I won't explain to much about that, if you have specific questions you can always ask it here.
8. After downloading, start the Gimp and click on file --> open... or simply ctrl + o. Select your screenshot from where you saved it and it will appear in a new window. Set this window to full-screen and zoom in (view --> zoom --> zoom in) as far as possible without having to scroll. So you must be able to still see the whole screenshot at once.
9. Now select Layer --> Transperancy --> Add Alphachannel. It will look like nothing happened but that's ok.
10. Now press shift + e to select the eraser tool and erase the bigger space around your object.
11. When you're ready with this open the first GIMP window again and select Circle (01).
When you do this the eraser will be 1 pixel big so you can erase the details. Go back to your image window and zoom in till 3200%. Now simply erase the background around your object. This can be quite simple because objects in Tibia mostly have a black border around itself, just erase around the black border and it will be ok. Don't worry to much about a pixel being wrong, if you zoom back till 100% you won't see that.
12. After finishing the erase work the picture needs to be resized in the good size. The best thing to do is resize it till 32x32 or 64x64. Of course this isn't always possible so don't worry too much about it. In order to resize press the key r (rectangular) and select the area you want to have the new size. The best is to do this when zoomed in 800%. When you have selected the rectangular press the right-mouse-button on your selection and choose Picture --> Crop to Selection.
13. Now everything is done it needs to be saved, press ctrl + shift + s (save as) and choose the correct name (beginning with a Capital!) and as extension you choose .gif e.g. Anderson.gif
14. Now it's ready to be uploaded, you did a good job!
N.B. Sometimes you see moving pictures, you can also do this but that's a bit more complicated although you won't need any other programs for it than used here.