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This may be obvious to some, but it is an easy way of grabbing several stills for movies, when they are hard to come by. I am sure there are several different techniques people use, but this is how I do it.

Firstly go to a good quality website such as www.hd-trailers.net

Find your movie and play the highest quality trailer available

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Play your movie in full screen. Using your PRINT SCREEN key on your keyboard, capture your first screen. Open Photoshop and create a new window (CTRL/CMD N). Select the Clipboard size in the New Document window

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Press (CTRL/CMD V) to paste your screen grab into your Photoshop document. Keep grabbing screens using PRINT SCREEN and CTRL/CMD V until you have as many screen grabs as you need. Once you have them all, you will need to crop the images ©.

With your Crop Tool © selected, draw a box around one of the stills. Press ENTER to crop all of your layers.

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Highlight your Background layer, and press Delete.

You should now have several layers containing all your screen grabs. So let's save them as jpg files.

Go to File -> Export -> Layers To Files...

Select Browse, and set the directory you want to save them to. Change file type to JPEG. Set quality to 10.

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Click Run, and Photoshop will save each layer as a jpg file, in your selected directory.

Not sure if I understand what your saying correctly? You open up the trailer and take several screencaps (of the same image but different places each time) so you end up with a much larger screen capture? Seeing that you're using clipboard 6160x1440? If it's just normal screen captures of a trailer, I'd recommend downloading them and use AvsPmod (with this program you can go through the video frame by frame) to select the exact image you want.

No. That is just my clipboard size you are looking at. Yours will be different. You just keep copying and pasting until you have several layers (each screen grab) built up

Nice tutorial Baz!

What size monitor do you have for your clipboard to be so large? I’m using an old 27” monitor and my clipboard is a lot smaller, something like 1920 x 1080 I think.

I have 3 monitors. Two old Samsung 22 inch's, and a low end Lenovo Q27q-10 27 Inch QHD Monitor.

I see. I'm also on a 27" monitor sauron

Bazzah wrote:QUOTE (Bazzah @ Nov 17 2021, 07:06 PM) I have 3 monitors. Two old Samsung 22 inch's, and a low end Lenovo Q27q-10 27 Inch QHD Monitor.

Ah so I’m guessing it’s the QHD screen that gets the 6160x1440?

sauron wrote:QUOTE (sauron @ Nov 17 2021, 08:24 PM) Ah so I’m guessing it’s the QHD screen that gets the 6160x1440?

Yes, it's 4k It's great for Photoshop

Bazzah wrote:QUOTE (Bazzah @ Nov 17 2021, 07:34 PM) Yes, it's 4k It's great for Photoshop

I’m jealous lol… I really do need to get with the times and get a better monitor

It is worth it. I was very impressed with my upgrade from a 15 year old monitor