How To Make a Screenshot

To create a screenshot follow these steps:

1. Open the page that you want to capture and leave it up on your computer screen.

2. Press the PrintScreen button on your keyboard and let it up. (To find the PrintScreen or PrtScrn button, look on the right hand side of your keyboard).

3. You have now saved an image of your screen on your computer's clipboard. You won't be able to see it, but it's there (it's a similar idea to when you copy and paste).

4. Open a graphics program such as Paint. Everyone has Paint on their PC. To access it, click Start>Programs>Accessories>Paint.

5. Once you have Paint open, click "new" to create a new empty image.

6. Click Edit>Paste to paste in the screenshot you just took.


Additional points:

If you want to skip the Paint steps, you can also paste the screenshot directly into a word processing program such as Word and into certain email programs such as Outlook.

To crop your screenshot in Paint:

- Click on the dashed rectangular select tool, and use it to crop your picture, to the desired size. You will see a broken line rectangle, showing the cropped area.

- Right click on the middle of the cropped image and copy the new cropped image.

- Open the Paint program again, and Paste once again. Now you should see only your cropped smaller image in the image window.

- Find the bottom right of the white image area, and drag it up and left to fit your cropped image, as shown below. This will prevent your image, having useless white area arround it.

- Use any Paint tools to edit your image, or add text if desired.

Click on File, and Save As to save your new image to your computer.


Upload to an Image Hosting Website:
- Sign up for a free program such as Photobucket,

Image Shack, or other image hosting website.

- Upload your images to your desired site, and use the generated codes in your website, or blog.


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