Author: Mark Monciardini
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Screen Capture Tips
After receiving a bunch of letters on how to do a Screen Capture, I've decided to show how.
This can be very useful and I do it almost everyday. Great for giving a client a preview of their
project or for showing your friends what's on the screen fast and easy. No software needed.
On PC
On PC
On PC
On PC
" Whole Screen
Open the application, website or file
you wish to take a snap shot of.
Press the Print Screen key on the
keyboard as shown. Your capture is
now stored in memory.
" Active Window Only
Have an active window on the
screen. Now hold down Alt - Print
Screen. Your capture is now stored
in memory.
" Viewing the Capture
Open a paint program such as
Photoshop or MS Paint. Now make a
new file: File>New and click OK.
Now go to Edit>Paste to paste the
capture in the new document. When
you get this far, move to "Cropping
the image" below.
On Mac
" Whole Screen
Hold down Command - Shift - 3. This will place a file on your Startup hardrive and it
should be found on the desktop as "Picture 1". If you take another capture, it will
make another file called "Picture 2" and so on.
" Cursor described rectangle
Hold down Command + Shift + 4. This switches the pointer to a cursor. Select the
area you want to capture with the mouse.
" Active Window Only (or closest window)
Hold down Caps lock - Command - Shift - 4.
" Viewing the Capture
Open a paint program such as Photoshop or Mac Paint. Go to File>Open and browse
to the file on the desktop and open it. When you get this far, move to "Cropping the
image" below.
" Add Control to the key combinations above to send the captured image to the
clipboard.
Cropping the image
in Photoshop
Sometimes we want to remove application
interfaces or backgrounds from the image.
This can be done easy in Photoshop.
After you paste or load your image in
Photoshop, select the
Rectangular Marquee tool. Now make a
selection around the area that you want to
keep.
Now go to Image>Crop.
Save and you are finished.