It happens when it is necessary to show something to someone, to confirm, and this can be done only with the help of a screenshot, I also often receive messages in the comments and in the mail with the question "how to make a screen on a computer." This is what I will teach you in this post.
In general, the entry turned out to be large, but each paragraph contains the answer to your question. I wrote the answers to all your questions in one place, and now you have all the ways to take a screenshot.
To save time, use the "content" block on the right side, and go to the method convenient for you.
How to take a screenshot of the screen with the keyboard
This method is the standard, most convenient and widespread. In order to make a screen with the keyboard, you just need to press the " PrintScrn», « PrintScreen"A slightly different name is possible:" PrtScr ", PrntScrn, PrtScn, PrtScr or PrtSc.
Whatever it is called on your keyboard, these names are similar and the screenshot button is practically in the same place. For an illustrative example, let's look at different keyboards in the photo:
- Standard Keyboard - Press: Print Screen (or the above key).
- Apple - Press: cmd + ctrl + shift + 3
- Logitech - Click: Print Screen
- Screen on laptop keyboard - press: PrtSc. In general, I already wrote a whole article about. You can read it, there is a lot of useful information.
Similarly, on other keyboards (Oklick, Genius, Defender, Microsoft), as you can see, the plus or minus key is located in almost the same place.
Screen of the active window
The screen of the active window is a snapshot of an open folder, program, browser, i.e. without toolbar and backgrounds. It is done in the same way, only now you need to press two keys at once: " Alt» + « PrintScreen". An illustrative example:
Where the screenshot is saved
And also, the frequently asked question: I pressed the print screen and nothing happened. The answer is that it happened, you just didn't notice it! The screenshot is stored in the clipboard, just like the text you copied on the Internet or in a file. You cannot find it in any way, but you have the opportunity to insert it in any editor, which we will talk about below.
How to save a screenshot
Everything is quite simple, I would even say it couldn't be easier. Just open for example, Paint(Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint (Icon: a palette with a brush)), then press Ctrl + V. That's it, you have inserted your screenshot, it remains only to save "Ctrl + S" and confirm with the "Enter" key.
In fact, Pain is far from the only way you can save screenshots. You can also use MS Word, Photoshop and other editors.
This is not all, if you took a screenshot with the aim of sending it to someone, it is not even necessary to save it. Immediately after clicking " PrintScrn", Open a letter in the mail or correspondence in the social. network / messenger with the person to whom you want to send the picture and press paste (Ctrl + V) and you can send.
Business screenshot with standard program
Congratulations, you're in luck today. And then there is no program to download, there is no need to install. The thing is that your computer already has a standard program called "scissors" .
To open it, go to the start menu -> all programs -> standard -> scissors.
We open them and you do not need to click anything else. You can already use the cursor to select the area you need for the screen. Just select an area of the screen and release the mouse. After that, click “file” in the top menu and select save.
How to make a screen in the browser
In most cases, when you need to take a screenshot, you have a browser open. Of course, you can take pictures using the methods listed above, but the browser add-ons are also convenient and you should not miss this moment. As an example, I will give only the basic programs that I myself use, but I think others do it according to the same principle.
Screenshot in Yandex Browser
In order to take pictures directly in the browser, you need to install a special extension. Don't worry, it's quick and easy. Open your browser, click settings, the "add-ons" tab, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click "Directory of extensions for Yandex.Browser".
You will be redirected to the page - https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/ and now write "Screenshoter" in the search.
Install any (I use the first one) by clicking on it, and click "Add to Yandex.Browser".
Now, in the top panel you have a button for taking snapshots directly in the browser. If necessary, click on it and select an area of the screen for the snapshot. After that, it will automatically appear in your clipboard, and a button for loading an image will appear.
Screenshots in Opera
If you have an up-to-date version of the Opera browser, then on the left side of the screen (sidebar), at the very top in front of the social. networks, you should have a camera icon. Click on it, select the area of the screenshot and click "Capture". Immediately after the shot, you will have the opportunity to change it (make it blurry, put a pointer / arrow, add a smiley) and, of course, save it.
If you have an up-to-date version of the program and do not have this add-on, then: press "Ctrl + Shift + E" and you will be taken to the extensions directory or follow the link - https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/. Next, in the search, write "snapshot" or "screenshot", then install the extension as in the case of Yandex.Browser.
Screens in other browsers
I see no reason to write separately about each browser since it's all done the same way in everyone. The only difference is the graphical shell and the word install / add. If you are using Chrome or Firefox, do the same as in the example above and you will have a handy plugin.
Make a screen online
With this method, you can take pictures without bothering at all. No installations of programs and extensions, nothing to open and paste, just click and the screen is ready.
Let's look at the most convenient sites and how to work with them, with which you can take a screenshot online:
- pastenow.ru - Without registration
To get a screen, make the pages, windows, programs you need using the "PrintScrn" button, open the site and press "Ctrl + V".
Ready. Now you can: download, get a link to it, edit and delete.
- snag.gy - No registration
Everything is exactly the same as in the example above. Only this site is in English (nothing complicated, you don't even need to read it) and has more functionality.
- snapito.com - No registration
A cool tool with which you can take a screenshot of the whole site. By "whole site" I mean a full-height image, not just the visible area of the screen.
To take a snapshot of a page, go to the website and paste the link to the snapshot page. Wait a couple of seconds and you're done. Now you have a snapshot of the whole site, and you can download it or take a link to it.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to take a screenshot (screenshot). We will learn how to photograph the screen in whole or in part.
How to take a screenshot on a computer
A screenshot is a screenshot, a photograph of what a person sees on a computer.
To create such photos, there is a special Print Screen button on the keyboard. It can also be called Prt Scr, PrtScr, Prt Sc, PrtScn, or PrntScrn.
After clicking on it, nothing happens - no clicks, no flashes. But the photographed screen will be fixed in the computer's memory. For this snapshot to appear, it must be inserted into an imaging program. For example, in Paint.
The most popular way to take screenshots:
- Press the Print Screen button on the keyboard.
- Open Paint program.
- Insert a snapshot into it.
- Save on your computer.
But there are other ways as well. I will tell you more about each later.
In Paint
Let's take a look at how to take a screenshot using Paint. This is the most popular way because Paint is on every computer.
one . Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. There is no need to hold it - just press and release once. It happens that you need to press two keys at once: Fn and Print Screen.
2. Open "Start" and at the end of the list select "Accessories - Windows". And from there select Paint.
You can also type paint right in the open Start menu and run the application.
3. Insert a snapshot. To do this, click on the "Insert" button at the top left.
The screen photo will be added to the program window.
4 . Edit the picture if necessary.
Since the resulting photo is larger than the program window, it usually goes beyond Paint. Its scale can be reduced using the slider in the lower right corner.
Use the Select tool to trim away excess. Click on it and while holding the left mouse button select the part of the image that you want to keep. It should be indicated by a dotted line.
Then click on the Crop button at the top ().
Zoom in to 100% using the bottom right slider. Thus, you will see a real picture of what happened.
5 . Save the result to your computer.
To do this, click on the "File" button at the top and select "Save As ...".
A save window will appear. Go through it to the folder on the computer where you want to place the image. For example, if you want to add it to your Desktop, select “Desktop” from the list on the left.
In the File name box, type a name for the snapshot. It is usually named "Nameless" by default. You can print a number instead.
Change the file format in the lower field if necessary. In most cases, PNG or JPG is fine.
6. The screenshot will be recorded in the place and under the name that you specified when saving it (see the previous paragraph). This will be a regular photo file that can be written to a USB flash drive, sent by mail, published on social networks, etc.
On a note . If you need to take a snapshot of only one window that is currently open, press the Alt and Print Screen key combination.
In the program Scissors
The Snipping Tool is a special software for taking screenshots. It is initially available in Windows 7, 8 and 10 (but not in all editions).
You can open "Scissors" in the same way as Paint: Start → Accessories - Windows → Scissors.
Or by typing the word scissors directly into the open Start menu.
This is how the program window looks like:
Click on the "Create" button - the screen will be foggy. Hold down the left mouse button and select the part you want to photograph. After you release the mouse button, the image will be added to the program window.
Recording an image to a computer is the same as in Paint (see).
On a note . Some editions of Windows do not have Scissors. Therefore, if you did not find it on your computer, it means that it is initially absent in your system. Use one of the programs I'm talking about instead.
Via keyboard shortcut
In Windows 8 and 10, you can take a screenshot using the Win + Print Screen keyboard shortcut. The image is immediately saved to the Screenshots folder.
To do this, hold down the Windows key () and hold down the Print Screen key.
Now open the Pictures folder. There will be a folder called "Screenshots", and inside is your photo.
Also, in Windows 10, you can use the Win + Shift + S keyboard shortcut to launch Snippet Sketch. This is an improved version of the Scissors app with more editing tools.
Screenshot services
To create screenshots, you can use special services on the Internet: pastenow.ru, makescreen.ru, snipboard.io and others. They have editing tools: crop, rotate, print text, arrow, line, shapes.
How to take a screenshot via the service:
- Take a picture of the screen by pressing the Print Screen key. Or just one active window by pressing Alt + Print Screen.
- Go to pastenow.ru and paste the image by pressing Ctrl + V.
- If necessary, edit the picture and save it: right-click on the photo - "Save Image As".
On a note . To send screenshots over the Internet, it is better to use the prnt.sc website. Upload an image and get a short link - using it, the frame will be available to everyone on the Internet. This link can be sent by mail, through a social network or messenger, published on the website / forum.
Screenshot software
There are also separate applications for taking screenshots. They are handy if you need to take pictures frequently. Next, I will briefly talk about the most convenient free programs.
When preparing articles, abstracts, reports, etc. many users faced the task of “taking a picture” (making a screenshot) of what is visible on the screen, and then inserting this picture or part of it into their document. The procedure for taking such pictures of the screen is called Print screen(print Screen). Sometimes the process of copying the contents of the monitor screen is also called "taking a screenshot". Often for such purposes, special programs are used that have broad capabilities, but in most cases, you can get by with the built-in Windows tools. In fact, making a print screen is very simple.
How to copy the contents of a computer screen
To do this, there is a special key on the keyboard - Print screen(on keyboard PrtScn), most often located in the upper right corner of the keyboard. On the keyboard, the button for capturing the screen is located approximately here:
It can be used in two ways:
After clicking on this button, outwardly nothing happens, no new windows are opened. By pressing the button Print screen the view of the monitor screen is copied into RAM, and to save the screenshot to disk, you need to paste the contents of the clipboard into any program capable of processing graphics. Are quite suitable Photoshop, Paint or even Word, although there are many special programs for taking screenshots (SnagIt, WinSnap, HyperSnap, etc.).
How to save a screenshot in Paint
A simple (but sufficient) graphics editor is built into Windows. It must be present on any computer with the Windows operating system and is called Paint.
To make a print screen using Paint you need:
How to make a print screen in Photoshop / Photoshop
- Press the key on the keyboard Print screen(or Alt + Print Screen- if you need to screen only the active window, and not the entire screen), when the necessary information is displayed on the monitor screen.
- Open the program Adobe photoshop, open a new document in it ( File-> New ...). In this case, the size of the picture is determined by Photoshop itself, according to the contents of the clipboard.
- Paste a screenshot from the clipboard into a new program file Photoshop... To do this, select in the main menu of Photoshop Edit-> Paste.
- Save the screenshot to disk ( File-> Save for Web & Devices) in the graphic format you need.
How to insert a screenshot in Word
If the screenshot of the screen does not require editing, you just need an exact copy of the entire screen or only one active window, the screenshot can be inserted directly into the program Microsoft Word... To do this, just press the button on the keyboard. Print screen(combination Alt + Print Screen, if you need a screen of only the active window) and immediately paste the screenshot just taken at the cursor position in the Word ( Ctrl + V- the universal combination for insertion works, of course, in Word).
If the screenshot needs to be edited before being inserted into a Word document, it must first be inserted into one of the graphics processing programs ( Photoshop, Paint etc.), edit there and save the screenshot to disk. After that, the saved image can be dragged with the mouse to the desired place in the document. Word or traditionally copy and paste using combinations Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V respectively.
The nuances of taking screenshots on a laptop and netbook
In order to take a screenshot on a laptop / netbook, you need to find the button Print screen(PrtSc) and make sure its color is the same as the rest of the letter and number keys. If the color is different, the same as the button color Fn, the "screen capture" button will only work when you hold down the enhanced keyboard power button on the laptop. Those. need to press the PrtScn key while holding down the Fn key (Fn + PrtScn). The rest of the steps for inserting the resulting print screen into Word or Photoshop are described above, there are no differences.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer. We will learn how to make screenshots using standard Windows tools and special programs.
What is a screenshot
A screenshot is a photograph of a screen at a specific point in time. Such a snapshot can be either the entire screen or a separate part of it. For example, a snapshot of only one window.
To take screenshots, there is a special Print Screen key on the computer keyboard. It can also be called PrtScr, Prt Sc, PrtScn, or PrntScrn.
By clicking on the Print Screen button, the computer screen will be photographed. But there will be no clicks or flashes - the picture will simply be fixed in the computer's memory (clipboard).
Then this photo needs to be pulled out, and for this you need to insert it into some program. The easiest way is in Paint, as it is a standard Windows program, and it is found in almost every computer.
Important! After pressing the Print Screen key, nothing can be copied before you paste the snapshot into the program. Otherwise, it will be replaced with the copied information.
How to take a screenshot of the screen
Through Paint
one . Press once on the Print Screen key on the keyboard.
If you have a laptop, then you need to press the Fn and Print Screen key combination - first one key, then, without releasing it, another.
2. Click on the Start button and select Standard - Paint from the list.
Or in the search bar, type "paint" without quotes and open the program.
3. In the program window, click the "Insert" button.
Immediately after that, a screen photo will be added inside. The snapshot will be taken at the moment when you pressed the Print Screen key.
4 . Cut off the excess through the "Select" and "Crop" at the top.
First, click on "Select".
Then press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, outline the part that you want to leave. After that click on "Trim".
If you can't draw the first time, click once outside the selected area with the left mouse button - the selection will be reset.
5 . We save the picture to the computer. To do this, click on the save icon at the top of the program () or File - Save.
A window for saving the file appears. First, we need to select the place on the computer where we want to record the screenshot.
Then you need to change the name of the picture and select the format. To do this, click on the "File name" field at the bottom and type there a new name for the screenshot. In the format field, select PNG or JPG. Then click "Save".
That's all! The resulting snapshot is now recorded at the specified location (). If you selected Desktop, then you need to search for it on the computer screen.
On a note . Thus, we photograph the entire computer screen. But if you need to take a screenshot of only one window, then you need to press not Print Screen, but the Alt + Print Screen key combination. Notebook: Fn + Alt + Print Screen.
Through Scissors
Scissors is a standalone software for taking screenshots. It is more convenient than Paint.
"Scissors" is either in Windows or not. It depends on the system version. So if you cannot find this program through the "Start", it means that it simply is not in the computer.
one . In the search bar on the taskbar or Start, type Scissors and launch the application.
The program window will appear.
2. Click on the "Create" button and select the part you want to screen. To do this, simply click on the left mouse button and, while holding it, circle the desired part.
If the window overlaps with what you want to remove, move it with the left mouse button behind the header - where it says "Scissors".
3. As soon as you release the left mouse button, the selected area will be photographed and added to the small program.
There are a couple of editing tools here. The pen is like a pencil for underlining. Marker - for a stroke.
4 . Save the image to your computer via the button. This is done the same way.
Win + Print Screen
In Windows 8 and 10, you can make a screen automatically - without inserting it into the program and saving. To do this, just press the Win + Print Screen key combination.
Immediately after that, the screenshot is written to the folder. To find it, go to This PC, open Pictures and Screenshots.
Online services for creating screenshots
There are services on the Internet that help you take screenshots. With the help of them, you can not only take a picture of the screen and save the picture, but also edit it. Draw arrows and frames, add text, rotate, crop, and more.
PasteNow
An overview of the PasteNow service tools
The + and - tools on the right-hand panel allow you to zoom in and out on a snapshot. The Center Image button aligns to the center.
Arrow buttons in the left pane, save or discard editing actions.
Crop image... Crops the selection. Click on the button and select the area you want to leave.
The selected area was highlighted, and a green button with a bird appeared on the left. After clicking on it, the changes will be applied - only the cut part will remain.
Rotate image... Expands the image according to your requirements. Can be rotated 90 ° clockwise and counterclockwise and 180 ° counterclockwise.
Filled rectangle... Allows you to draw a colored rectangle directly on the screenshot. Click on the tool, after which you will see a colored rectangle in the bottom corner. You can choose a color through it.
Hold down the left mouse button to start drawing. Release when the rectangle is ready.
Frame . Frames text or images. The drawing principle is the same as for the Shaded Rectangle tool.
Pencil . Allows you to paint on the picture.
Line and Arrow. Draws lines and arrows.
Text . Allows you to write text. To do this, click on the tool, click on an empty space and start typing.
Censorship . Blurs information. Click on the tool, then hold down the left mouse button and select the fragment that you want to paint over.
MakeScreen
- Open the website makescreen.ru
- Press the Print Screen key.
- Press the key combination Ctrl + V on your keyboard to upload the image to the site.
- If necessary, edit the picture and save to your computer.
After that, a window with save parameters will open. Click "Download screenshot" and it will be in the "Downloads" folder on your computer.
MakeScreen Service Tools Overview
Trim. Allows you to crop the image. Click on the tool and, while holding the left mouse button, select the desired area. Drag the white buttons on the sides to change the area. After clicking on "Apply", only the selected part will remain on the screen.
The size . Resizes the image. Click on the tool and a window will appear at the top with the choice of the width and height of the image. Enter the required parameters and click "Apply".
Orient. Allows you to rotate the image.
Focus. Highlights part of the image and blurs the background. Example:
Color . Changes the color of the picture. Example:
Brush. Allows you to paint on the screenshot.
Elastic . Deletes drawn shapes.
Text . Adds text.
Blur. Blurs information.
snipboard.io
- Open the snipboard.io website
- To take a screenshot, press the Alt + Print Screen keyboard shortcut.
- Then press Ctrl + V to paste the image to the site.
- Edit the image and save to your computer.
The finished snapshot will open. Right-click on it, select "Save Image As" and.
Tool overview:
- Crop - Crops the image.
- Pencil Tool - allows you to draw on the picture.
- Text Tool - adds text.
- View the Image in Full size - displays the screenshot in full size.
- Move - moves the image.
Free screenshot software
LightShot
You can download and install LightShot from the official website app.prntscr.com.
How to use... After starting the program will be in the system tray.
Press the Print Screen key. The program automatically activates a window for selecting an area and taking a snapshot.
Toolbar:
Cons: no fresh software updates from the official site.
Joxi
You can download and install the program from the official site joxi.ru.
How to use... After installation, the program will be in the tray. Click on it and Joxi will ask you to enter your email to get started, that is, to register.
This is what the program itself looks like:
Tool overview:
- Fragment - selection of an area to save.
- Move and Transform - Move lines, text, and other elements drawn on a snapshot.
- Pencil - drawing.
- Line and Arrow - draw lines and arrows.
- Text - prints text.
- Circle and Rectangle - Draws a circle and a rectangle.
- Numbering - add numbering to the image.
- Blurring - blurring information.
- Blackout - will leave only the selected area in the field of view, and darken everything else.
- Color palette - selection of drawing color and text color.
- Screen - Capture the entire screen.
- History - will open a browser window with your snapshots.
- Settings - program parameters.
To save the document, click on the arrow next to the blue checkmark.
Pros: the presence of a large number of tools.
- To work, you need to register.
- Sometimes crashes with an error message.
Yandex.Screenshots
The program is included in the Yandex.Disk suite. You can download and install from the official website disk.yandex.ru.
How to use... Run the program, a window will open with a selection of the area to capture.
After that, the application interface will open.
Tool overview:
- Arrows - draw arrows.
- Text - add text. You can change the font and color on the panel.
- Shapes - Draw lines, rectangles, circles, and stars.
- Marker - used for selection.
- Blur - Blurs the selected area.
- Crop - Cuts out the area.
The image will be written to Yandex.Disk. You can find it through This Computer - Yandex.Disk - Screenshots.
- Convenient screenshot editor.
- Synchronization with Yandex.Disk.
Cons: you need to install the Yandex.Disk application.
Other free programs
In this review, I will briefly talk about other free screenshot programs.
Monosnap
Opportunities:
- The ability to capture video from the screen and web camera.
- An excellent image editor with all the necessary tools.
- The ability to take screenshots in games.
- Customizable shortcut keys.
- The ability to record video from the screen.
- The application runs on an OS not lower than Windows 8.1
- Small functionality when editing video.
Screen Shooter
Opportunities:
- A snapshot of both the entire screen and the selected area.
- Excellent functionality for editing screenshots.
- The ability to save both to a computer and cloud services.
- Works with any version of Windows.
- Convenient editor.
Pick Pick
Opportunities:
- A snapshot of both the entire screen and the selected area.
- Huge selection of editing tools.
- Ability to save to a computer, office applications and cloud services.
- Russian language support: File - Options - Languages.
- Capture the selection quickly.
- An excellent set of basic tools.
- The ability to upload to cloud services.
Screenshot Captor
Opportunities:
- Built-in editor with great functionality.
- It is possible to capture from a web camera.
- The ability to download an image from a scanner.
- High quality images.
- Brightness settings.
- Large selection of editing tools.
- The ability to compress screenshots.
Cons: no support for the Russian language.
Clip2net
Opportunities:
- Screen recording (available only in Pro version)
- Convenient editing panel.
- The ability to save a screenshot both to a computer and to social networks and to a cloud service.
- Sufficient functionality to work in the free version.
- There are versions of the application for the browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
- Registration is required to get started.
- Video recording is available in the paid Pro version.
- Uploading files to your servers is available in the paid Pro version.
Screenshot Maker
Opportunities:
- Ability to add comments.
- Installation of soundtrack for pictures.
- Screenshot quality and compression settings.
- Configuring hotkeys for screen capture.
- The ability to take a snapshot while running games.
- There is an option "Screen scissors".
- The presence of a compact menu for managing the utility.
- Program support has ended.
- There is no built-in editor.
Paid programs
Movavi Screen Recorder
Opportunities:
- Screen video recording.
- Editing in recording mode.
- Adjust sound levels.
- Split video into parts.
- Adding additional audio tracks.
- Adding subtitles.
- Saving files in formats: AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, etc.
- Burn to DVD disc.
- Export to cloud services.
- Record up to 60 FPS - handy when playing games.
- Simultaneous recording from multiple sound sources (music, microphone).
- Hotkey support.
- Small size of the distribution kit.
- Uploading videos to social networks and Youtube.
- The program puts watermarks on the video in the free version.
- To record video, you need a video card with OpenGl support.
Snagit
Opportunities:
- Record photos and videos from the screen.
- Large set of tools and settings.
- Support for photo and video cameras.
- Ability to print and scan the image.
- Conversion support.
- Recording everything that happens on the screen.
- An excellent graphic editor with support for filters.
- Hotkey support for capturing.
- Support for multimedia equipment.
Cons: large volume of the distribution.
FastStone Capture
You can download the program from the faststone.org website.
Opportunities:
- Record photos and videos from the screen.
- Change the color depth.
- Ability to add watermarks.
- Resize the image.
- Nice set of editing tools.
- The ability to send a picture to office applications, e-mail and save to a computer.
- Possibility to add a signature.
- Convenient video capture.
How to take a screenshot of a website page
Snapito.com service
one . Go to snapito.com
2. In the Snapito field, enter the URL of the site you want to screen. Click on the "Snap" button.
3. Save the screenshot by right-clicking on the image and selecting "Save Image As".
Click on the extension icon in the right corner of the screen.
3. Select an area to save.
If you are looking for how to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer, then you've come to the right place.
A screenshot is an image that exactly captures what the monitor displays at a particular moment in time.
These snapshots are often used to provide instructions on how to use various programs or to remotely assess problems.
Screenshot creation by means of OS
To fix the screen image, a special key "PrintScreen" (PrtScr) is used. At the moment when it is necessary to save, you need to press this key.
The image will be saved to the clipboard.
Note! It is important not to copy anything else after that, otherwise the information about the copied element will overwhelm the previously taken screenshot. Then, to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer on windows 7, you need to open a graphics editor. Anyone will do, in the example we use the standard Paint.
In the open editor window, you need to press the combination "Ctrl + V", or the "paste" button in the top menu.
You can also select the "selection" tool, right-click anywhere on the canvas, and select "paste" from the drop-down menu.
Once inserted, the screenshot can be edited like any other image, marking items to be noted or showing the order.
After saving the screenshot will be located in the save directory and available for use.
There is also the option to take a screenshot of the active window only. To do this, together with PrtScr, you need to press Alt.
In this case, a snapshot of the exclusively active window will be inserted into the editor. So, in the image you can see that a snapshot of the active window is inserted into the Paint editor.
Screenshot software
In some circumstances, it is not possible to take a screenshot using the OS tools. In addition, not everyone is comfortable with saving every screenshot in the editor.
Let's consider how to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer, photos are attached.
Floomby
During the first launch, you will need to go through the registration process. Then the option of saving screenshots to the program servers will become available.
And, in fact, the ability to work with the program.
To call the frame for capturing the area of the screen, you must click the "Fragment" button. Then select the area of the screen that you want to fix.
A small toolbar will appear on the side with tools for marking up and adding explanations.
Below are the options for saving.
The selected area can be saved to the hard disk of the computer, to the program server, copied to the clipboard or sent to the required FTP.
Note! You cannot save the complete screenshot to disk. Full screen shots are saved only to the program server. There it can be placed in the profile gallery or copy the link in order to share it.
Hot Key Screenshot
An extremely easy-to-use small program.
After downloading and installing, all that remains is to assign a hotkey to create a screenshot and select a quality indicator (on which the size of one image will depend).
After that, screenshots will be automatically saved to the directory with the program.
Important! Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the location in which they will be saved.
The program is extremely simple and does not require installation. You can exit it using the tray icon menu or the "Exit" button in the main window.
Pictures are created exclusively in jpeg format.
Screenshot Maker
Another small program, the functionality of which is somewhat less than that of the first one under consideration. The program has two versions: Professional and Free.
The first version is paid, only in it you can save images in PNG format.
In the main window of the program, you can select a hotkey to create a screenshot, define the format of the saved image.
And also choose to capture the cursor, configure the format of automatic file names, or set copying to the clipboard, instead of saving to a file.
The directory for saving snapshots is also set here.
In the "Comment" tab, you can configure adding a comment to the saved screenshot. Changing the text format is only available in the paid version.
In the free one, you can set the background of the comment, its position on the screenshot and, in fact, turn off or turn on the option.
Screenshot Maker has an automatic screenshot creation feature. Its launch together with the beginning of work is available only in the Pro version.
It is possible to set the capture parameter and the interval until the next or between screenshots.
Screenshot extensions
Along with the OS and special programs, screenshots allow you to create and add-ons to browsers. They help both to take a screenshot of a page on the Internet and to save it.
Lightshot (screenshot tool)
A handy and useful browser add-on. Allows you to take snapshots of an open page in. After installation, a purple pen icon will appear to the right of the address bar.
Clicking on it activates (before taking a screenshot of the page) the capture area on the page.
The size of the screenshot in pixels will be shown above the frame (top right corner).
After defining the capture area to the right and bottom of the frame, a small panel will appear with editing tools and save options.
On the bottom panel, you can choose one of the saving methods:
- uploading the program to the cloud server;
- sending to social networks;
- sending by Google mail;
- printing on a connected printer;
- saving to the clipboard;
- saving on.
Editing tools allow you to add labels to the saved area, highlight portions of it, and indicate places that need attention in other ways.
Saving to the hard drive is the same as any download of a file from a browser using the operating system's explorer.
FireShot
After installing the extension, a corresponding icon will appear to the right of the address bar.
By clicking on it, a menu opens with the key combinations used for certain actions. Also in this menu you can go to the settings page.
In the extension settings, the number format is corrected and keyboard shortcuts are assigned if the default ones do not satisfy.
To many, the combination of four buttons to take a screenshot may seem cumbersome.
When capturing an area of the screen, only a frame appears to define that very area. No additional tools are provided.
After defining the scope to capture, the extension redirects the user to a page with save options.
There are four possible ways to save a screenshot: as an image, as, to the clipboard and sending to print.
Additional functions are implemented as a separately installed program. In such a case, the value of the extension itself is questionable.
The previous one is more independent, although it also has an installed program.
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