Creating Screen Shots |
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This job aid will teach you how to create a screenshot of any web page or capture any screen event. |
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| Step one: Open the web browser |
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Open the web page in the web browser. |
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| Step two: Print Screen |
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On Windows, press the Print Screen or Prnt Scrn key on your keyboard, found at the upper right of the keyboard. This key will capture the entire screen. The size of your capture depends on your monitor resolution (if it is set to 640x480, that's the size of the screen capture, etc.)
To capture only the active window, press "Alt + Print Screen",
on the Mac, press "Command + Shift + 3". |
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| Step three: Open a paint program |
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Open up your paint program - you can use virtually any paint program, including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, or even Microsoft's Paint, usually installed on Windows in the Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint. |
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Step four: Edit the captured picture |
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In the paint program, select File > New, then Edit > Paste. Your screen capture is now ready to be cropped or scaled. |
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Tips |
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If you scale (resize) the screen capture, make sure that you resize proportionately. Problems occur when you rescale more in one direction than another, ending up with something like a wacky hall-of-mirrors effect. |
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If you need to print the screen capture, try changing the dots per inch size rather than resizing the image. For instance, if your screen capture is 640x480 at 72 dpi, and you need it to fit on a letter sized page, change the dpi to 100 or 150 instead of reducing the pixel size. |
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If your captured text is blurry, in your paint program, erase the text, but leave the rest of the web page layout. Open the screen capture in a drawing program like Adobe Illustrator, or Corel Draw, or Quark, or Pagemaker, etc. Then recreate the text in your drawing or page layout program. |
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| Screen capture utilities: |
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Screen Capture 2.0 for Windows
SnagIt 32 for Windows - also captures onscreen animation and video
HyperSnap for Windows 95, 98 and 3.1
Screencatcher for the Mac
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