Screen Capture Tutorial
Ready to create a
screenshot?
OK, so if you look on your keyboard you'll see that you have a 'Print
Screen' Button, Some times it's up at the top above your arrow keys other
times it's off to the left a little. But you'll find it. And now we're
ready to use it
Now is the time to use it:
To copy your full
workspace, hit the on
your keyboard.
A copy of your workspace is saved on your system
clipboard. Now we just need to get it from the clipboard onto a image
program.
How to put the clipboard info into Paint
This is easy. We're going to open Paint. But, I can't encourage you
enough to use Photoshop, Fireworks, or Corel or any commercial paint
program. Anyway to open Paint, just go to your Start Menu, then Click
Programs, then Accessories (sometimes you might have to look in System
Tools to find Paint) and then Click on Paint.
Now that Paint is open, you can either hit Ctrl V, or use the edit
menu to paste in the picture on your clipboard into paint. Oh did I ever
mention that when you hit Print Screen, you're actually coping whatever is
on screen into your clipboard? Anyway, you are. And Don't forget to take
my Windows Keyboard Shortcuts if you don't know about Ctrl C, Ctrl A, and
of course Ctrl V and many more.
Viola. Whatever was on your clipboard is now pasted into
Paint. Here you can see that I'm using the Select Marquee to pick just the
area I want to keep. You can either send your entire screen
capture with no problem, or you can be a bit more elegant and just select
the part you want. Now you can do several things. If you use Ctrl C, you
can just copy what's selected and paste it into a new page, you can save
it as a .GIF if it's like artwork or JPEG if it's more like a picture.
Either way, you'll be ready to send it off to show anyone anywhere what
you want.
So now you know everything there is to know about Screen
Capture. And you know enough to crop . Now let's email our creations to someone.
How To Email Your
Pictures
Here's Outlook Express.
Do you see up top the big red arrow? That's
where you click to attach a picture (or any file).
Once you've clicked the Attachment Button,
you'll get this dialog box. Just navigate to the picture/file you
want to send and then you can double click the picture or click it
once and then click the 'Attach' button at the bottom right.
Once you click the attach button, you'll see your
file above where you write your email. Wasn't that easy? There's really
nothing to it. Just a few clicks and you're on your way.
Click "ok"
Click "Send"
that's all!
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