Captureing "screen shots"

How do you record or take a 'picture' of a particular screen?

Thanks, Josh

Windows? alt - print screen to capture a window, ctrl - print screen to capture the desktop. Then paste it into photoshop or similar.

In Windows, the "print screen" command (hold Shift and press the button that says Print Screen) puts a graphic copy of the screen on the clip board. You can then paste image into your graphics software. Hope that does what you want.

Pete D.

Thanks Ana and Pete!! I am using Windows, but I don't see the 'print screen' option.

On my keyboard it's next to the scroll lock (and abbreviated "print scrn"), but it might be in a different place on yours.

I found it Ana. Thank you!!!!

Just to clarify: Alt-PrintScreen copies an image of the window that has the focus. Pressing PrintScreen alone copies a shot of all open windows. So, if you need a screen shot of (say) an error message, or a dialog box that pops up, use Alt-PrintScreen.

Also, be sure to post-process screen shots for size and sharpness. Screen shot images can be huge, in terms of file size.

-PB

What the heck is the "clipboard"? I tried the alt-prnt scrn sequence and nothing happens. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

clipboard just means that it is saved temporarily on your RAM until you either paste it somewhere like a New Document in Photoshop or MS Word, or copy something else.

Thanks Richard. How do you go about pasting it somewhere (CS3)? When you do the screen capture does it "do" anything that lets you know it's been copied? Also, where do you find it on your RAM? Dumb questions I'm sure, but I don't have a clue!

There used to be clip-board viewer in Windows so you could look at what was currently in memory to be pasted (it's still there, but it's not in the menus by default. Guess no one ever used it.) Not very useful since it's just the last thing you copied/cut.

Now some applications, like MS Office apps have a clip-board integrated (under Edit -> Office Clipboard) showing you what you've copied/cut that can be pasted. In this case, there can be multiple things there at once. Much more useful than the old clipboard viewer.

Bill I replied before I saw your most recent post. To more specifically answer your questions :

-- In CS3 you should be able to create a new, blank file. Then just use the Edit->Paste menu. I'm not sure how it handles the resolution - might take some fiddling with.
-- No, nothing happens when you do the capture - you have to paste it somewhere to see if it did what you expect.
-- You can't really look at your RAM, but hopefully my last post answered that question.

Here's the simplest way I know of to capture the whole screen or just a part of it: Snag It. Probably the best $40 I ever spent on software.

I have to second Rod suggestion - Snag It is great!

Scott

Heres another handy screen capture tool, its a non-installer so you just run the program
directly when needed...
Screencap

Andy