Make a Screenshot Off Your PC or Laptop
By pcjunkychick
How to Make a Picture From a Screenshot
How to Make a Screenshot Quickly and Easily.
This is a very simple way to make a screenshot of anything, anywhere, anytime on Your Personal Computer or Laptop.
Many of you have struggled with trying to find a way to get a picture of a web shot to use weather it be for use in a document, a desk top picture or even for use in a program you may have on your Laptop or personal computer, referred to as your PC.
First and foremost I must tell you I am a big picture freak anyone who knows me knows that, I love my pictures. Then secondly I am a PC junky and even tote my Laptop around from time to time as well. I am what they call a PC addict.
I often wonder do they have a PC addiction anonymous. It could be PCAA Personal Computer Addiction Anonymous, a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from Personal Computer Addiction. Our only goal is to achieve a reasonable amount of offline life & appear as normal as we possibly can while doing so.
This weekend I will be leading by example by spending time with my loving family as apposed to indulging in my selfish addiction of checking my endless number of web sites that I am a mindless drone of a member of. I will be doing my best to enjoy myself all the while missing my online friends all weekend while sipping a glass of wine or downing a few beers listening to the fair is in town conversation and trying to ovoid having to go to every booth or on every ride with a large smile upon my Internet deprived face. All in the name of PCAA I shall represent this wonderful group and remain offline for a number of long weekend hours, a sacrifice I am wiling to make just to take one for the team er group lol.
Okay sorry just had to have a bit of fun.
Let us get on with it. All right back on the topic of capturing a screenshot. The first thing that hangs me up when I am working on a picture is not having the correct program for the job at hand. With that said I feel the best photo viewing program out there has to be Irfanview. That is why I featured it on my web site today because it is one of my favorite programs ever and the fact it is free makes me love it all the more.
That is of course just my opinion the program you use to view your pictures is of course up to you. Any program you want to use to view your photo will work just fine. The first thing you will need for capturing a screenshot will be to open your photo viewing software on your PC. Now once this program loads go ahead and click your minimize button, the minus sign in the right hand top corner of your screen we will come back to use this program later.
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You can use any program you have that you use for working with your pictures, I however am using my favorite program for doing simple, quick cropping and editing. The thing I like about Irfanviewis the simple design of the program with a tool bar at the top consisting of drop downs with endless properties you can use to change and manipulate your pictures. The usability of the program is just beautiful and straight foreword I love that. Being a simple gal myself that is the most appealing feature to me with open it and use it right away simplicity with out reading long instructions or studying for hours on how to crop a single photo. by the way you can crop a batch of photos as well but that a whole different subject.
According to Download.com these are among some of the features:
Features
- Popularity: #1 in Image Editing (out of 1093 products)
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- Date Added: July 16, 2008
On to the next thing, now you will need to go open IE, Internet Explorer, or Firefox or Google Chrome what ever program you are browsing the internet with go ahead and open an internet window. Then find a picture you want to have a screen shot of. The picture I will use will be the HubPages logo.
Now once you are on the picture you want a screenshot of look at the top of your key board. Yes I said look at your key board. Look along the top row of keys until you see a key called or labeled PrtScn or SysRq or Insert it should be the third key or so from the right on the top row.
I think some of you see where this is going but you are like okay what next, others of you are slapping your forehead right now saying on my gosh! To the -oh my gosh people well you could at least leave me a comment before you close the window to go print screen your little hearts out lol just kidding.
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For those of you still following me now you can push that PrtScn or SysRq or Insert button.
Next go to that open program that you use to view your pictures. Once you have your program open you can click edit then click paste or you can push your Ctrl button PLUS your letter V button. Your picture should be there. I love short cuts. Now you can manipulate your picture all you want. Then save your picture in what ever folder you chose or even create a new folder to put it in. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Comments
nice but i need a full screenshot, with the original time of my pc. that is displayed on the bottom of the screen
FINALLY!!! THANX A LOT COMPU-SMART.. I JUST DO MY FIRST SCREEN SHOT.. LOVE YOU!!!
ok im not much of a commenter but thanks this has made it easy
I don't understand - I found the page I want to get the screenshot of - then I just push that button?? Shouldnt I somehow identify the part of the page I want to get the screenshot of?
Sorry its not clear
thanks. helped alot.
I think it is different on that try to
Press FN+prt sc and go to paint/Microsoft picture manager and then paste
Hope this helps
Hi, I'm having a problem getting a screen shot. I have an HP Pavilion laptop and I pressed the insert button and under it also has print screen as prt sc, I pressed it and then opened up a word document and then microsoft picture manager and pressed the CTRL + V and nothing shows up. I dont know why its not working.
What kind of PC are you using? What part is not working for you & I will try to help?
Its still not workign for me. D:
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This is a good idea
lol -you are very welcome! :)
i'm one of those oh my gosh i feel like an idiot now people - thank you!
Thank you so much for your feedback Sally
I am so glad I could help.
I love the price too lol. :)
Very helpful Hub, and fun to read, too. I downloaded IrfanView an hour or so ago and played around with it. It's easy to use and has lots of neat features...especially being able to paste a screen shot into the program. Until now, I'd been pasting screen shots into Visio, creating .jpg files out of them, and then importing them into Picasa to refine, since Picasa doesn't have a screen shot paste option. This will make my work go a lot faster. Oh yeah, and did I say how much I like the cost of IrfanView, as in free? Thanks for the great info!
Congrats on being a HubNugget! http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/7778#post83173
Thanks
Congrats to you on your nod last week as well gwendymom :)
I liked this hub, easy to read and full of useful information. Congrats on your hubnugget nod. Keep up the good work.
Cool Thanks :)
I finally got the group ready for members if anyone is interested. The link is http://pcaa.groups.vox.com/
I think you have to join vox first, but not sure. It is free to join.
Thank you so much bethrickson
I will be checking out your hubs as well :)
This is very informative and helpful. I like it. Thanks! I'm sharing this. Thumbs up! :)
Check out my hubs when you have time. Thanks.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Personal-CoachingMentoring
Thanks starcatchinfo :)
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Cool, thanks for the nomination that's awesome!
Cool! Got it! Thanks for the info.
I just nominated you to possibly be one of this week's HubNuggets! Congrats and check it out here when you get a chance: http://hubpages.com/hub/Make-HubNuggets-A-Part-of-
LOL I like that tweleve short cuts...lol that's good.
I'm glad I could help PCAA unite! lol hee hee
Sounds good SirDent :)
I actually created a group titled PCAA last night. Will post the link as soon as I think it's ready for members. :P
This will help lots of people!
I had a pc (keyboard) which could never take a screen shot! so I tried the On-screen keyboard and used thE pnt scn button there! hey presto!
ps.. I may get to meet you at the Personal Computer Addiction Anonymous association!! lol We should be the founders of it!! lol Instead of the twelve steps, we could ere-name it the-twelve shortcuts!! lol
Lol welcome we are very happy to have you.
Have a great day! :)
Great hub with great instructions. I don't feel so lonely now that I know I'm not the only member of the PCAA.
Becoming a Fan to keep my eyes open for more tips.
lol sure. Welcome to PCAA Personal Computer Addiction Anonymous. Our only goal is to achieve a reasonable amount of offline life & appear as normal as we possibly can while doing so. :)
Are you the President of the club? I have a problem.
lol nope you just introduce yourself,
announce that you have a problem & then you're in lol
I need to join the PCAA too. Is there an application to fill out?
lol yep I am happy to be!
SSAA unite!
shh I am a member of PCAA too...lol
Would you be my first customer for SSAA? :P
That's so awesome!
watch it you could get addicted.
Atleast then you could start a group for
SSAA Screen Shot Addiction Anonymous
I would ned to join lol
Just kidding :)
I did a screen shot of this page just ot make sure I could do it right. I used paint to edit it and it was great. :D I also have paint shop pro which I love personally because of all that you can do with it.
Awe TY
Cool I am goin to go check it out right quick ;)
I love doing screenshots. My last hub included many a few days ago. That is nice your write this informative hub to help others.
Yeah
I like the drag & crop it is very handy in IV, you just hold your right click, drag the crop box then crop it from the menu bar. It is quick that is what I like the most.
I like to use paint some times when I want to erase something love that too.
I have other programs I love as well.
Hard to let them go when you love em...lol
I agree with Misha, except I use Microsoft Paint to paste it into.
Alt-PrtScr and Microsoft Photo editor still work for me just fine :)
yes you can use any program you open your pix with.
Sorry I just love that program I should put that in there sorry about that.
Is it even possible without the software?
Lol yeah guilty been in the forums :)
Yay, it comes in so handy & is so much faster
You've been reading the forum! No wonder I haven't been able to get this to work....you need special software for it! Duh!
Thx, just made my first ever screenshot! Quite exciting, though I wish that I could copy and paste the image - my email wouldn't accept it, but that's okay, I'm happy!
Thx, again.
Aww cool! Perfect! I'm so happy I could help you are so very welcome :0)
I was trying to figure out how to do a screen shot just today. This hub couldn't come at a better time for me. Thanks for writing it. :D
pcjunkychick 6 months ago
A screen shot is just that a shot of what you see on the screen. If you see it then it should be in your screen shot. If you need to scroll down to get the date before you continue that would allow the date to be on the screen.
If you can not fit it all on the screen here is a tip to make your screen smaller: Hold "Ctrl" & at the same time push the "-" minus Sign. What this does is make your screen smaller but don't forget to hold "Ctrl" "+" Plus sign to make it bigger again. Hope that helps