How do you take a screenshot?

by **soundout9** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:12 pm

of your comp. Isn't it control print scrn? When i do that nothing happens. Where do the pics go? to the my pics folder?

by **hecter** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:14 pm

Press Printscreen, then go to some image editor, like paint, and paste it in there.

by **Lanceyboyuk** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:14 pm

that works for me anyway

by **soundout9** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:16 pm

wow i was off. thanks hector

BTW this is getting moved to Q&A

by **oVo** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:25 pm

Once it's pasted it into Paint ( Ctrl V )and you're done messing around and saved it to your computer, you still need to change the file format from bmp (which is huge) to a gif or jpg which is a more reasonable size.

This Easy Image Converter is a simple way to do it.

Also if you want to post the image here you need a web host, some are free
like Photo Bucket.

by **kalishnikov** on Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:09 am

Also, there are a number of programs you can download for Firefox such as CLICK! by snapshot.uk.jkn that give you one-click ability to take snapshots and give you a free hosting site.

Browse the Add-ons section of the Mozilla website for more.

by g. on Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:35 am

btw: with Alt + PrintScreen you get a screenshot of only the window in focus

and you can save jpgs with paint if you change the "save as type" to JPEG.

/g.

by **kalishnikov** on Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:29 am

g. wrote:btw: with Alt + PrintScreen you get a screenshot of only the window in focus

and you can save jpgs with paint if you change the "save as type" to JPEG.

/g.

Nice, I didn't know that.

That will be handy at work.