Take a Snapshot of Your Computer Screen

Posted by Ian McKenzie
Written on April 1, 2009

ScreencapThis tip is handy when you’re preparing computer training material. It’s also a quick way to get a picture from web content to use in a document or presentation. Take a picture of your Desktop, or a snapshot of the contents of a window.

  1. Position items on your Desktop as you want them to be in your picture,
  2. Tap the Print Screen (PrtScn) key -generally next to the F12 key-
    to capture a picture of your entire desktop;
    or
    Alt+PrtScn to capture a picture of the contents of the active window only.
  3. Now, you can open most Windows-based products and Paste the new picture where desired.

If you want to modify the screenshot:

  1. Open your graphics program
  2. Paste the image,
  3. Modify as desired and Save.
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    Check out FastStone Capture Portable (this is the freeware version) – it’s an amazing tool for creating/editing screenshots that I’ve been using for several year.

    Comment by Birgit on April 5, 2009 @ 9:51 am

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