Screen Capture

[ian . 0]

I've got some software on my pc thats not right.

The makers want a screen capture e-mailing to them.

How do I do it?

[Paul Smith 0]

Pressing F12 normally does the job (I think)

[TonyB 0]

Press "Print Screen" or "Alt Gr" and "Print Screen" together (button above insert button) and then paste into a word document. If you don't have word, use word pad in accessories.

 

You can then either save and attach the document to an email or left click on the image then go to edit then copy and then right click on the email then paste.

[DJ Marky Marc 0]

there is a print screen key..."Prt scn" on the right of your keyboard...

 

 

then paste the image with ctrl + v into an image editor or a document

[BigBen 0]

Both Marc and Tony are right, but there is a distinction between the two methods. Pressing the Print Screen button by itself will capture the entire screen (Taskbar and any open windows that are visible) whereas pressing [alt] Print Screen will only capture the active Window - ie. the application you have 'in focus'.

[Gary 0]

I normally just use "ALT" + "PRINT SCREEN"

 

then "CTRL" + "V" to paste the capture into Word, or Powerpoint, or whatever...

[Andy Westcott 0]

'Print Screen, to capture the whole visible area, then open Paint and paste it into there by going to the 'edit' option at the top and clicking 'paste'.

 

Any cropping or other manipulation can be carried out after you've initially saved the original file in Bitmap form. This BMP format results in pretty large file sizes so you should consider, if you have the software, converting it to .gif or .png format. Don't use .jpg as it is the incorrect format to deal with this type of graphic without affecting the image quality noticably.

 

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[ian . 0]

QUOTE (Andy Westcott @ Oct 5 2006, 12:33 PM)

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[RezN8 0]

... Or you could just paste the image captured to the clipboard straight into "Paint", (Start / All Programs / Accessories / Paint), which comes free with the Windoze ... From there you can save it in any of the common formats.

 

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QUOTE (Andy Westcott @ Oct 5 2006, 12:33 PM)

This BMP format results in pretty large file sizes so you should consider, if you have the software, converting it to .gif or .png format. Don't use .jpg as it is the incorrect format to deal with this type of graphic without affecting the image quality noticably.

 

Sorry, but I disagree about your comment on the use of the .jpg format. It is perfectly adequate for the job and if the issue was one of colour, then it would be my preference. I say this because a .jpg image contains it's own pallette of colours within the file itself, whereas a .gif image is reliant upon that of the rendering O/S.

 

A standard .gif image has a pallette of 256 colours, however, both the Mac and PC have subtle diferences in some of these colours, leaving a 'common' pallette of 216 colours which would be rendered correctly on both. This is where the notion of a 'web-safe' pallette came from. Since a .gif image rendered using this 'reduced' pallette of 216 colours would look the same, irrespective of the O/S.