How to take screenshots????

whassupp2

Anybody know how to take screen shots???? where u can see exactly whats on the screen in front of you.

I'm using Windows XP Home and Internet Explorer 7 (I think)

spurious

You can use 'Print Screen' and paste it into a graphics prog.

PogMoThoin

I use this: http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/?prnscr its freeware
Its good can edit image just after taking pic before you save.

whassupp2

How do you "print screen"????

Creamy Goodness

whassupp2 wrote:

How do you "print screen"????

it's a button on your keyboard, should be up and to the right of F12

whassupp2

PogMoThoin wrote:

I use this: http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/?prnscr its freeware
Its good can edit image just after taking pic before you save.

Thanks

whassupp2

Cremo wrote:

it's a button on your keyboard, should be up and to the right of F12

Thanks. That button is there but it doesnt do anything.

Creamy Goodness

whassupp2 wrote:

Thanks. That button is there but it doesnt do anything.

it copies the screenshot on to the clipboard.

open paint and press ctrl + V

Steveo1983

you gotta hold ctrl and press printscreen button. then open ms paint, open a blank drawing and press ctrl + v to paste the captured screen into the blank picture.

Creamy Goodness

Steveo1983 wrote:

you gotta hold ctrl and press printscreen button. then open ms paint, open a blank drawing and press ctrl + v to paste the captured screen into the blank picture.

holding ctrl while pressing printscreen will only capture the active window (ie. no taskbar and desktop (if desktop is showing))

Steveo1983

holding ctrl + printscreen captures desktop and start bar on my laptop

eamoss

Or you can do what I did take a photo with your phone when print screen wudnt work. Only happened because CPU usage was 100%

calex71

Cremo wrote:

holding ctrl while pressing printscreen will only capture the active window (ie. no taskbar and desktop (if desktop is showing))

It's actully alt + print screen guys, usefull for capturing error messages etc.

tech

never knew about holding alt. this is a sweet tweak as I print screen all the time

Thank

trout

one drawback of prtscr function is file sizes are quite large, as they are basically bitmaps ... so if you have a busy screen, you can easily get a 500 Kb image

this may not be a problem if you are doing a small number of screen grabs ... but if you are doing a lot of screen grabs, you need a screen grab util ...

best one i've seen is SnagIt ... you can set up your own hot key to launch it, size the area you want to capture, and edit before pasting ... the output can be controlled, so you can pick jpg / gif or more suitable format depending on your needs

the newer versions are shareware ... i think there are older/freeware versions also on d'Internet

more details here http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp

Ruu_Old

I used to have Screen Thief, don't think its free anymore but Alt+Prt Scr works grand then paste and save as in Paint.

PogMoThoin

trout wrote:

one drawback of prtscr function is file sizes are quite large, as they are basically bitmaps ... so if you have a busy screen, you can easily get a 500 Kb image

this may not be a problem if you are doing a small number of screen grabs ... but if you are doing a lot of screen grabs, you need a screen grab util ...

best one i've seen is SnagIt ... you can set up your own hot key to launch it, size the area you want to capture, and edit before pasting ... the output can be controlled, so you can pick jpg / gif or more suitable format depending on your needs

the newer versions are shareware ... i think there are older/freeware versions also on d'Internet

more details here http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp

The Screenprint utility i posted above does all that and is freeware. You can set it to bmp, jpeg, gif or whatever you want. handy when you want to crop image to certain area of screen before saving.