How to Capture a Screen Shot

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Michael Burton with Michael Burton films.org located in Salt Lake City, Utah and we are here talking about how to use Microsoft Windows. Now I want to talk to you about how to capture a screen shot using your print screen key. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. One of the easiest ways to capture a screen shot is by pressing the print screen key on your keyboard. I find that it is usually located up next to your scroll lock and your pause break button. So what you will do is press the print screen button. What that does is takes a screen capture of your desktop and puts it in to you clipboard. So then what you're going to want to do is go down to your start menu and you're going to want to go to your programs and it looks like I already have it opened here, you're going to want to open your paint program. When your to your paint program you can go up to edit and you click paste. Keep this in mind, you can do this with any image editing software but I choose to use Microsoft paint. As you can see it has captured a desktop screen shot of my desktop. Now we can manipulate it and edit it and change it in any way that we wish and then of course go to file and save as, save, print it, we can send it, we can do anything that we want with this image. That's probably the easiest way to do it is by using print screen button to print your screen out."