How would you take a "screen shot" of the flash screen?

I'm building a kind of avatar creator. At the end, I want the user to be able to capture what they have made and repost it to the site, essentially save out their creation as a web-friendly image - png, gif or jpg.

Ideally they'd save out two versions, a full size and a thumbnail.

In any event, is there a way to do something like this?

You can use BitmapData.draw() to flatten a copy of your avatar into a bitmap - from there there are a lot of different ways to compress the image and send it to a server or wherever.

Great, thanks for the tip.