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Take a screen shot



Ever see something on your screen that you’d like to e-mail or save for later? With Microsoft Windows XP, you can take a screen shot and capture an exact image of what’s on the screen.
Screen shots are useful in many ways. For example, if you receive an error message, you can take a screen shot and send your support person an exact replica of the error window, which makes communicating about the error simple. You can also use a screen shot to show someone a Web page without sending them a link. Microsoft uses screen shots to demonstrate how to do tasks within Windows. If you’re helping someone with a computer task or problem, and you can’t be right there with that person, you can use screen shots to illustrate your points through e-mail, instant messaging, or Microsoft Word.



Note: The only times you can’t take a screen shot are before you log on to your computer and when you are playing a video in Microsoft Windows Media Player.


To take a screen shot and save it as a picture


1.
Click the window you want to capture. Press ALT+PRINT SCREEN by holding down the ALT key and then pressing the PRINT SCREEN key. The PRINT SCREEN key is near the upper right corner of your keyboard. (Depending on the type of keyboard you have, the exact key names on your keyboard may vary slightly.)
Note: You can take a screen shot of your entire desktop rather than just a single window by pressing the PRINT SCREEN key without holding down the ALT key.



2.
Click Start, click Accessories, and then click Paint.









3.
In the Paint window, click Edit, and then click Paste.







4.
When the image appears in the Paint window, click File, and then click Save As.





5.
In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, type a name for the screen shot, and then click Save.






You can now upload it to image host sites ,print or e-mail the saved screen shot just like you would any other picture.


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How to Take a Screenshot

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More examples to take screenshots

I noticed many people don't know how to take screenshots. Maybe some of the mods can make a sticky of this, so we don't have to explain it again and again. (for Apple users, scroll to the next post)

1) Normally, you press the button 'print screen' (next to F12) and you go to Paint or another imaging program and you click paste (or Ctrl+v). You can cut out the parts you don't want (you may not want us to see the dirty websites your surfing to). Pressing ALT + Print Scrn takes only the active window

2) Windows Media Player
Press Ctrl + I and save the image.
or
You can't just press print screen in WMP, you have to go to
- Tools -> Options
- the Performance tab
- Advanced button and uncheck "Use Overlays" under video acceleration
Then you can print screen and paste it.

3) VLC Player
When playing a video in VLC Player, pause the video and go to VIDEO -> SNAPSHOT. The still is now saved in the format you selected under preferences > video. (you can also choose the path there)

4) Power DVD
There's a button in Power DVD that takes a screenshot of the video it's playing. You can select the filetype/size and the path under preferences.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2...rdvd1606cn.jpg

5) BSPlayer
Press P to take the screenshot. It will be stored in your BSplayer folder.

6) go to [Only registered users can see links. ]
little application that settles itself in the system tray. You can press a hotkey to capture everything or the active window. Bitmap is stored in the app's folder.


Adding in some more stuff. This info is on Windows Vista (I use Ultimate but I expect this covers all versions)

WinDVD 8




After (4), the standard 'Save As' window comes up.

Windows Media Player On Vista

Just make it full screen, let the time bar disappear, then hit Print Screen.

They've finally made it easy.

Hosting a file, can be done here: [Only registered users can see links. ] or [Only registered users can see links. ]
I'm sure there are also other ways and other utilities...but I think you'll get along just fine with one of these.

moosa

Mac Os take screenshots

I'd just like to add to this for the Mac users, but as I still only use Mac OS 9 I can't guarantee that the OS X instructions are correct - someone else will have to check for me. I know these worked on earlier versions of X but I've not even tried 10.4 yet, so don't know...

Mac OS 9:
To take a screenshot of the entire screen, press Command+Shift+3 simultaneously. This will place a picture file inside the folder for your main hard disk (the drive your active system folder is on).
To take a screenshot of just an area of the screen, press Command+Shift+4 simultaneously. Then you can draw a marquee around the area you want the snapshot taken of. Alternatively, instead of drawing the marquee, press the space bar and a snapshot of the active window will be taken.
Again, a picture file will be automatically created with that image in the main folder of the hard disk.
You can keep snapping away multiple times and the system will automatically increase the numbering of the files sequentially.

Mac OS X:
As with OS 9 - you press Command+Shift+3 simultaneously to get a snapshot of the whole screen and Command+Shift+4 plus a drag to take a snapshot of just an area (or spacebar for the active window or menu - as with OS 9).
This time, the snapshots are saved on your desktop. In earlier versions of OS X they're saved as PDF files, in 10.4 they're saved as PNG files.

Note:
If you have multiple monitors, taking a snapshot of the entire screen will grab an image of all screens. As far as I know taking snapshots will grab an image of movies too - at least it does with the DivX's I tried in OS 9 using Quicktime...


Alternatives:
You could also try using a piece of Shareware software called Snapz which does a great job of snapshots on the Mac.


Oh and on the PC, I find that Jasc's PaintShop Pro's Screen Capture facility is fantastic and I recommend any users of PaintShop Pro on PC try it (File>Import>Screen Capture>Setup).


Hope that helps. If I missed anything out, just shout!

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