Here's what I do.
While in Google Earth, push the "Print Scrn" button, that takes a screen capture.. it transfers the image on your monitor screen to your clipboard.
Then open Photoshop (I'm sure any other image editing software is relatively similar) and on the top menu bar, go to File> New>
and that opens a new blank image file. Then press CTRL-V and that transfers the last view you had on your monitor (namely, the Google Earth image you had open) to the new blank image placeholder you had in Photoshop (or whatever image editing software you have).
(that's a screen capture of me loading a screen capture into photoshop)
Then, after all that's done, go to the "select" tool
(or whatever tool your imaging software has for selecting part of an image) and select a border around the part of your screen capture image that you want to save.. basically, border only the good bits. Then, with that part selected, press CTRL-C, and open another new image, and press CTRL-V. Then (if you have photoshop you'll have to "flatten image" first) save the file on your hard drive, then go to
http://photobucket.com/, start an account, then upload your new image file there.
Ugh.. I'm extremely hungover, so I'm not all that good on the tutorialing today, sorry. :crap: