I want to download a chess position as image or make a perfect screen of the board.
Reason: I need more colors than red, green and blue. So I would use Photoshop to mark it.
Problem: Using snipping tool doesnt allow me to make a perfect screen.
Does anyone know how I can do this the best way? Is there an option on lichess or addon in firefox?
There are different solutions. If you open the game in the analysis engine you can take the FEN (chain of characters describing the position, available in the FEN&PGN tab) and use a website to convert it to a picture (just search "FEN to JPG" on Google). However the picture won't have the same colors/design than the lichess board and pieces.
You can also make a screenshot and the remove the outside part of the picture which you do not want on Photoshop/paint.net.
Print Screen key above the arrow keys on your keyboard?
It’s called print screen
Win+Shft+S key combination allows you secelct part screen to paster buffer. Better than print screen if you want just the board
@petri999 yes that is what I wanted, but I want to cut it out perfectly, how can I do this? It doesnt work with Win+Shft+S to cut it out perfectly :(
Get a free program called ShareX , great for taking screenshots of part of the creen, can do basic editing also.
@SucheSchachfreund If you're using windows you have a program called "snipping tool" which allows you to take a screenshoot from a specific part of your screen.
Hi!
@SucheSchachfreund Firefox can make screenshots from webpages complete or partial, I think it's built in no addon required.
Right click, make screenshot, and you don't start selecting a rectange but hover the mouse over the chessboard and it will select it with perfect crop.
Hope it helps.
Wow, this realy works well. Simply click on the three dots in the URL bar, select "Take a Screenshot" click on the Board and then copy or download. For the Chrome-Browser there is an AddOn called Lightshot that can do essetialy the same thing.
