STEP 1 Open the web page in the web browser. On Windows, press the Print Screen or Prnt Scrn key on your keyboard, found at the upper right of the keyboard. This key will capture the entire screen. If your monitor resolution is set to 640x480, that's the size of the screen capture. If your monitor resolution is set to 600x800, that will be the size of the screen capture, etc. To capture only the active window, press "Alt + Print Screeen". on the Mac, press "Command + Shift + 3". |
STEP 2 Open up your paint program - you can use virutually any paint program, including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, or ven Microsoft's Paint, usually installed on Windows in the "Star-> Progrmas-> Accessories-> Paint". |
STEP 3 In the paint program, select File/New, then Edit/Paste. Pretty simple, right? ... Your screen capture is now ready to be cropped or scaled. |
Troubleshooting Screen Captures The trouble with screen captures comes when you need to scale them for print or the web. Because your screen resolution is so small, any resizing usually obliterates the type within the screen capture. To minimize the changes to your screen capture, try these tips:
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Some Useful Utilities The little print screen trick above works fine for a few screen caps, but to create a lot of screen captures you'll want to use a handy utility like those listed below. You may already have a screen capture utility available to you: Corel Draw includes a utility called Capture which captures both still screens and onscreen animation, and PaintShop Pro also includes the ability to do screen captures. One last point - you will definitely need a screen capture utility to take screen captures inside Photoshop.
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