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Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

Posted on January 28, 2010 | in Tutorials | by TheShadow

Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

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So you are viewing the screens you want to capture.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

A guide to taking screenshots of your theme for uploading.
[tweet]We get asked this a lot , so here goes.

First I assume you have no graphics software as you would probably already know how to do this if you did.

You can download a free program called Paint.net from Here

For Nokia open up your theme in Carbide.
Select the Gallery tab, then maximise..
Attached Image

So you are viewing the screens you want to capture.
Attached Image

For Sony Ericsson open your theme in Theme Creator
and click the preview button.

Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
Make sure you are viewing your images at full size.
Press the Printscreen key [PRT-SCR] on your keyboard.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
This captures a ‘picture’ of your whole desktop.

Now open up Paint.net, and select File then New
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
In the box that pops up just select OK
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

Then go back up to Edit then click Paste
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
Now you will have your screen capture in Paint.Net,
go back up to View and select Actual Size
this will just make it easier to see what you are doing.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
Now go over to the toolbar down the left hand side and click on the rectangle select tool.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

A guide to taking screenshots of your theme for uploading.

We get asked this a lot , so here goes.

First I assume you have no graphics software as you would probably already know how to do this if you did.

You can download a free program called Paint.net from Here

For Nokia open up your theme in Carbide.
Select the Gallery tab, then maximise..
Attached Image

So you are viewing the screens you want to capture.
Attached Image

For Sony Ericsson open your theme in Theme Creator
and click the preview button.
Attached Image

Make sure you are viewing your images at full size.
Press the Printscreen key [PRT-SCR] on your keyboard.
Attached Image
This captures a ‘picture’ of your whole desktop.

Now open up Paint.net, and select File then New
Attached Image

In the box that pops up just select OK
Attached Image

Then go back up to Edit then click Paste
Attached Image

Now you will have your screen capture in Paint.Net,
go back up to View and select Actual Size
this will just make it easier to see what you are doing.
Attached Image

Now go over to the toolbar down the left hand side and click on the rectangle select tool.
Attached Image

Next put the cursor over the top lefthand corner of your desired screenshot, holding down the left mouse button ,drag it down to the bottom righthand corner of your screenshot and release.
If you make a mistake here just click outside your selection and repeat until your happy with the selection.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
Now go up to the top toolbar and click the Crop icon
If it’s not quite selected correctly, just go up to Edit and select Undo and try again.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
And there you have your screenshot, just go up to File then Save As
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme
Then name your screenshot i.e. screenshot1 and select your file type as jpg then click save.
Guide to take a screenshot of your theme

A guide to taking screenshots of your theme for uploading.

We get asked this a lot , so here goes.

First I assume you have no graphics software as you would probably already know how to do this if you did.

You can download a free program called Paint.net from Here

For Nokia open up your theme in Carbide.
Select the Gallery tab, then maximise..
Attached Image

So you are viewing the screens you want to capture.
Attached Image

For Sony Ericsson open your theme in Theme Creator
and click the preview button.
Attached Image

Make sure you are viewing your images at full size.
Press the Printscreen key [PRT-SCR] on your keyboard.
Attached Image
This captures a ‘picture’ of your whole desktop.

Now open up Paint.net, and select File then New
Attached Image

In the box that pops up just select OK
Attached Image

Then go back up to Edit then click Paste
Attached Image

Now you will have your screen capture in Paint.Net,
go back up to View and select Actual Size
this will just make it easier to see what you are doing.
Attached Image

Now go over to the toolbar down the left hand side and click on the rectangle select tool.
Attached Image

Next put the cursor over the top lefthand corner of your desired screenshot, holding down the left mouse button ,drag it down to the bottom righthand corner of your screenshot and release.
If you make a mistake here just click outside your selection and repeat until your happy with the selection.
Attached Image

Now go up to the top toolbar and click the Crop icon
If it’s not quite selected correctly, just go up to Edit and select Undo and try again.
Attached Image

And there you have your screenshot, just go up to File then Save As
Attached Image

Then name your screenshot i.e. screenshot1 and select your file type as jpg then click save.
Attached Image

Just repeat for a few other screenshots of your theme, to give an idea of what it looks like,you may have to move down your preview in carbide and take another screenshot to get some of the other images that are ‘off screen’.
There is also an application for Nokia users that you can put on your phone and capture screenshots straight to your phone it’s called Screenshot

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How to Download this Theme:

1. Right click on the Download button and select Save Target As or Save Link As or If you are using Internet Download Manager then select Download with IDM
2. Save the .nth, .sis, . sisx, .apk, .zip file anywhere on your computer
3. Attach your phone with your computer
4. Transfer the following file to your phone by using File Transfer or PC Suite

If your download file is in .zip format then follow these steps;

1. Go to your Control Panel and click on Folder Options
2. Click on View (tab)
3. Un-check Hide extensions for known file types
4. Rename the file name with .nth (For Example, abc.zip to abc.nth)

Note :Download corresponding file for your phone.older themes ie before 2011 were added in form of zip.later themes were uploaded as such. ie .nth for s40 etc.

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8 Comments for this entry
clintonalvares
May 24, 2010
01:07

dude ur blog is great

this method is not working plz help

its not getting copied when pressing print sc i have a laptop any other way i want to share my themes to the world plz help

thx in advance

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TheShadow
May 24, 2010
19:14

Thanks glad you like my blog.and regarding screenshot alternate method search FastStone Image viewer in google and download it and install.open your theme screen in carbide and open faststone image viewer goto file-screencapture-Capture rectangle region.drag and crop then save it or

3rd method if your phone is a s60v3 -Symbian 3rd phone then install screensnap application and take screenshot from your phone itself.Good luck on your themes

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Mohd Farrukh
December 23, 2010
04:49

Good Work ..
but i want to ask a question that when try to open the theme files then just appear .nth extension not an sis . how can i open the sis file in carbide

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TheShadow
December 23, 2010
09:27

Thank you :D you cannot open sis file using carbide.it is purely for making themes.

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Mohd Farrukh
December 24, 2010
00:21

is there any other way or third party application to get the screenshot of sis files.

waiting your reply

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TheShadow
December 24, 2010
06:27

yeah there is use screensnap an application which takes the screenshot of your phone screen

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Mohd Farrukh
December 24, 2010
20:53

Thanks “THESHADOW”
is there any process to take screenshot from pc …?

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TheShadow
December 27, 2010
07:46

Welcome.Use fastone image viewer to take screens from pc

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