Screen Capture

From Luke Jackson

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Revision as of 23:04, 3 December 2006

1. Full Screen Capture On a PC:

To capture the entire screen simply press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.. (At the top just to the right of the F12 button.) This places the entire desktop on the clipboard thus:

Screen shot of the entire desktop.

Simply paste it where you want it (i.e. in a Word Document).

To resize the image (as we’ve done here) while maintaining its aspect ratio, click the image with the left mouse button to bring up the resize handles (the small boxes at the corners). Press shift while dragging any corner handle of the picture.

On a Mac:

Press shift + open apple + 3 at the same time. The screen shot will be automatically saved on your hard drive as picture 1.

2. Capture a Portion of a Screen On a PC:

If you know a way to do this without a special software program let us know. We ended up simply taking full screen shots and then using the cropping tool inside Word to do this type of image. On a Mac:

Press shift + open apple + 4 at the same time. A cross hair should appear, +, and you can use it to draw around the area you wish to capture. You should hear a camera shot sound when you release the mouse. The image will appear on the hard drive as picture 1 etc.

3. Capture Just the Active Window On a PC:

Press ALT + Print Screen simultaneously. This places just the active window on the clipboard, rather than the entire screen or desktop. Then you simply paste it into your document like so: