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WINDOWS
To create a screenshot in the Windows operating system, do the following:
1. Open the application or window you want to screenshot, hit the Print Screen key (The Print Screen key is located on the upper right hand side.)
Pressing the Print Screen key will store a copy of the current computer screen
on the Windows Clipboard.
To create a screenshot of just the active
Window rather than the entire computer screen, press "Alt + Print Screen" rather
than just "Print Screen."
2. Paste the image into an image program such as MS Paint, modify it if needed, and
then save it to your hard drive. You can also paste
it into other programs such as MS Word, Power Point, etc.
3. This image can be printed, uploaded to a web page or emailed. (You may need
to reduce the image file size before uploading it to a website or emailing it.)
MAC
1. To capture the entire desktop, press
Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on
your desktop.
2. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot
will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.
3. To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair
cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to
capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be
automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in
Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
4. To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press
the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the
screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be
highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture
it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the
mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
(The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
5. Add Control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the
clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.
6. Another method for capturing screen shots in Mac OS X is by using the bundled
Apple utility, Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder. Grab is
useful if you need to include a cursor or a menu in your screen shot, or if you
want to save your screen shot to TIFF format. To include a cursor, first go to
Grab Preferences and select the cursor icon you wish to have in your screen
shot. To capture the screen with Grab, run Grab, then choose of the capture
modes from the "Capture" menu: Selection, Window, Screen, Timed Screen.
7. When you choose the Selection mode in Grab, you can capture a specific region
of the screen by dragging around it. Grab will display a tooltip showing the
size of the region you have selected and the screen shot will open in a window
when you release the mouse button. The cursor will not be included.
8. When you choose the Window mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear
asking you to select the window you wish to capture, then click the "Choose
Window" button. When you click the button, the instructions will disappear and
the window you click ill be captured, including the mouse cursor at the position
where you click (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
9. When you choose the Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear
asking you to click the screen when you are ready to capture. The mouse cursor
will be included in your screen shot at the position where you click (if a
cursor was selected in Preferences).
10. When you choose the Timed Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will
appear, allowing you to prepare your screen for capture. When you are ready,
press the "Start Timer" button and you will have ten seconds before the screen
is captured. This allows you to open menus and sub-menus, if necessary. After
ten seconds the entire screen will be captured. The mouse cursor will be
included in your screen shot if a cursor was selected in Preferences.
Source: About.com (http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm)
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