Alweth's easy Portrait Grabber tool

If you're like me, you've often seen fantasy art and thought to yourself, "That would make a really neat BG portrait." However, the time it takes to get the image, scale it properly into three different files, etc., prevents you from doing much of that unless you plan to use the portrait yourself.

Thanks to yours truly, that is no longer a problem! Now the world can be flooded with every possible BG:EE portrait under the sun, because of my simple (Windows only, sorry) app that quickly grabs a section of the screen, scales it into the right dimension(s) and saves it with the proper name(s) for you.

So please go forth and make a bunch of really awesome portrait packs.

Thank you.

HOW TO USE:

Run the program and choose the directory you would like your portrait images to be saved into. Enter the name you would like the files to have. Because of restrictions in BG, the file name cannot be longer than 7 characters. Click on the Capture tab. Click Capture Large, Capture Medium, Capture Small, or Capture All. The screen will go greyish. Select the region you want to make into a portrait by left-clicking and dragging. When you release the portrait will be taken. If, while still holding the left mouse button, you press the right mouse button, the behavior will switch so that the bounding box moves with your mouse rather than being resized by it. Right click again to continue resizing. The Capture All button simply takes one screen capture area and converts it to all different image sizes. When you go to capture a new image, the old area will be pre-selected. Press SPACE or ENTER if you want to capture that area of the screen again without changing it at all.

WHERE TO GET IT:

From the Google Code page: http://code.google.com/p/portrait-grabber/

Click Download.

Source code is also available there.