How to Make a Screenshot

Screen shots are useful for creating tutorials and images and saving information from websites and applications. A screen shot is an exact image of whatever is on your computer at the time. You can take a screen shot of just the active application screen or the full screen.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• PrintScreen software (See Resources to download)

Using Your Keyboard

1. Open the application, browser window or anything else you may want to take a screen shot of.

2. Press the key PrtSc to capture the full screen. Press Alt+PrtSc to capture onlu the active portion of a screen.

3. Open a program such as Paint and press Ctrl + V to paste in the image.

4. Save the image.

Using Gadwin PrintScreen

5. Download and install Gadwin PrintScreen.

6. Set your preferences to choose when to capture screen shots and which hot key to use. The default is PrtSc.

7. Choose your source and destination options on the left of the application screen.

8. Finish setting up your image preferences in the Image section of the application screen.

9. Press PrtSc or any other hot key you chose in Step 2 to test your settings.

Tips & Warnings

• If you take screen shots often, using the program option will save you time.
• If taking screen shots of confidential or private information, be sure to save the image in a secure place. Saving it to a disk or flash drive will be safer than storing it on your computer.

Resources

• Download PrintScreen Software

[tammyfrost]

on 9/25/2009 Thanks!