PSP Ruler

[Loopy]

Good Morning

I'm running Windows 10 Home and using PSP 2019 Ultimate. I have a question about the ruler. It seems to be a little 'off'. See pic attached.

Anybody know how to fix this or is it just me? Makes it hard to use it and I use it a lot,

Thank you and Happy Friday.

Loopy

[Jean-Luc]

I don't see the Guide handles on your screen capture (see attached).
Why ?

Did you reset PSP (launch it with Shift key down) ?
Are you using Essentials or COmplete workspace ?

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[Loopy]

I am using complete workspace and thought the pic I attached clearly showed a portion of the picture above the ruler.
The white line is the guide. Don't even know what you mean by starting it with the shift key down,

[LeviFiction]

If you start PSP while holding the shift key it'll ask if you want to reset the program to factory defaults. A useful feature when PSP is suddenly acting properly for no obvious reason.

So, the first question is has PSP always been doing this? Or did this just start happening?

Also if you look at the picture they posted you will see the red arrows are pointing to the handles for their guides. In the image you posted we can see the white guide. Line but not the guide handle that sits on the ruler itself the part you use to drag the guide around.

[Loopy]

I have never started PSP with the shift key down as I didn't even know you could do that. I don't know how to take a screenshot showing the handles. Could you please tell me how to do that?

I am using the latest version of PSP 2019 Ultimate which I bought earlier this month. It has done this since I purchased it. I've never had that issue in any of the other versions I've had since PSP 7 from Jasc and several other versions in between.

[ehume]

I have never started PSP with the shift key down as I didn't even know you could do that. I don't know how to take a screenshot showing the handles. Could you please tell me how to do that?

I am using the latest version of PSP 2019 Ultimate which I bought earlier this month. It has done this since I purchased it. I've never had that issue in any of the other versions I've had since PSP 7 from Jasc and several other versions in between.

Most of us keep our old PSP's, even if we don't have them installed. I too have PSP's going back to 7, but I have had and remember PSP5, 3, 1, even PS 3, which was shareware, distributed in shareware collections.

To make a screenshot, press shift-prnt scrn on your keyboard. On a 104-key keyboard, this will be the leftmost key in the row above the Insert/Home/Pageup keys. If you are still in PSP, you will have PSP open before you Select Edit > Paste as New Image / Ctrl+Shift+V; Shift+Insert, then Select the Crop Tool to fit this bulletin board.

[ehume]

I looked at your post again. It looks like a regression. Here's PSP 2018:

(I followed my standard procedure of using the KB keys, pasting as a new image into PSP 2018, then telling the Crop tool to leave the window 900 pixels wide. Note that I do this often enough that I have used Corel's fabulously flexible Customize function to every right-click menu I have.)

[MarkZ]

For screen captures I find the Snipping Tool in Windows 10 Windows Accessories the fastest and most versatile way to do it. Capture the portion you want and save as jpg.

[JoeB]

For screen captures I find the Snipping Tool in Windows 10 Windows Accessories the fastest and most versatile way to do it. Capture the portion you want and save as jpg.

I haven't used that tool, but I use a free program called Greenshot because it is highly configurable and you can configure it to use any hot keys you want to invoke the different types of capture you're trying to achieve.

[hartpaul]

I am too lazy to open another program to do a screen capture .
I just hit Print Scrn on my keyboard and then in PSP Rightclick and Paste as new image.
I can then crop the sections I want, sometimes a number of sections which I then combine together - refers to demonstrating something in PSP.
Or if not PSP related I can open Irfanview Ctrl V and then do required crop and save for an image of a website I want to capture and save.

But this has digressed. The OP has posted a very small image which seems to show an image where the 0 ruler line does not allign with the top of the image.
I have tried to duplicate this but cannot . OP needs to tell us:
are they in Tabbed mode or windowed mode.
What tool is active
Is the image xoomed to 100% and any other information that allows us to duplicate their setup.
Does it occur with all images and everytime they open PSP.
They say they have a guide line there (white) but it does not seem to have a handle - how did they get this?

[JoeB]

I am too lazy to open another program to do a screen capture .
I just hit Print Scrn on my keyboard and then in PSP Rightclick and Paste as new image.
I can then crop the sections I want, sometimes a number of sections which I then combine together - refers to demonstrating something in PSP.
Or if not PSP related I can open Irfanview Ctrl V and then do required crop and save for an image of a website I want to capture and save.

While this part has regressed, I wanted to point out that Greenshot does not require opening it, and can do what you want with fewer steps. It sits in your taskboard tray. In my computer it takes zero CPU resources and only 24mb of memory. And because I normally don't want to capture a full screen I have configured it so that hitting the Print Screen key from any program and it brings up the cursor with which I can draw a rectangle around the part I want to capture, and when I release the mouse key that image is automatically copied to the clipboard and I can paste it as new image into PSP or any other program I want. So it's already cropped when dropped into PSP.

You can configure any key or key combo to do other things like Full Screen, Capture Window, or Capture Internet Explorer (which latter will capture the full IE web page - without having to scroll - including the part you can't see below the bottom of the screen. Or you can just right click the Greenshot icon in the tray and click on the item you want from the context menu that pops up (see attached image). I just use the Print Scr button (unless I want a complete web page) because even if I want to capture the whole screen instead of a portion it's a snap to simply draw the rectangle around the whole screen, release the mouse button and drop the capture into PSP.

I really haven't found any other program (paid or free) that is as simple to use for screenshots and yet has so much flexibility. And I'm too lazy to even want to have to crop a captured full screen image once I drop it into PSP. Just sayin'.

[MarkZ]

I am too lazy to open another program to do a screen capture .
I just hit Print Scrn on my keyboard and then in PSP Rightclick and Paste as new image.

Continuing the digression for the last time (for me); I'm lazy too and when I discovered the Snipping Tool I switched to it. I used to do what you do and sometimes, rarely now, I still do. For 99% of the time I open the Windows file selector (whatever it's called, see image), select snipper, select new, draw the box around what I want to capture, save as jpg. Done. This is not as versatile as the tool JoeB describes but it does the job quickly.