How to make a screen shot

In everyday life, a big place is not so much live communication as the exchange of information on the Internet, and then there is a need to transfer, for example, an episode of the game, the text or its fragment. This can be an illustration for a user mastering a new program, or other information that can be conveniently transferred as a snapshot. A screenshot or screenshot is a snapshot of an image from a computer screen. In fact , there are several ways to make a screenshot . It is worth considering some of them.

Ways to create screenshots using Windows OS

As the easiest way, which does not require additional software, Paint - the simplest graphic editor, which is included in MS Windows, is perfect. To take an image from the entire computer screen, just use the "Print Screen" key on the keyboard, then go to the "Start" menu and select "All Programs", then go to "Standard" and start Paint. In the program, you need to select the "Edit" and "Paste" items. To save received screenshots from the screen, you must click "File" and "Save", and you can select the standard image. To save a screenshot from one window (usually active), you can use the keys "Alt + Print Screen".

Programs, designed to create screenshots

To save pictures from the monitor, for example, pictures, photos and other information that you want to share with friends, you can use special free programs available in the free distribution on the Internet. For example, you can use the Floomby program. It is easy to use, installed on a computer in Russian. Her site offers useful tips on how to make a screenshot, then the resulting image can be extracted from the site or sent a link to it to your friends. The Floomby program allows you to take a picture of either the entire screen, or only its parts. You can select the shooting mode by clicking on the clock icon that appears when you run the utility.

Another useful program is called Magic Screenshot. It is not very different from the above, and how to make a screenshot on it, too. Before you run it, you can get hints about the correct operation. Just like Floomby, the screenshots of users are published on the website of Magic Screenshot and they get links to the images they created. Screenshots can be provided with a description and correct them using the Brush tool. In the program settings there is a function for selecting the format in which the image will be saved, it can be png bmp, jpeg.

More complex and equipped with a large number of options is the Jing program, which, however, has one drawback: it is available only in English. About how to make a screenshot, tells a video posted on the site of the program. From the positive characteristics of Jing, you can mention the convenience of selecting an image with a frame. The program itself recognizes the image, the rectangular selection area is set with one click. It can save the image on the computer's hard drive, place it on screencast.com or place an image on the clipboard to paste it into the image editor. With the help of the program you can create both simple pictures and screenshots in the video format. This is useful when it is necessary to make an instruction for users mastering a computer. For the same purpose (creating a screenshot of the video) is a free program SnapaShot.

Screenshots on the screen of mobile devices android

The owners of smartphones android also have the ability to take pictures from the computer monitor to their mobile devices. To do this, you must simultaneously press two buttons: power and return, reduce the volume and turn on the phone, or long press the "Recent Programs" button. In order to get a screenshot of the android screen, you can use the ADB program that you need to install on your computer. It should recognize the android tablet, after which it can be removed from the screen.