Image Capturing
Free Screen Image Captures: Use Prscn To Capture Any Windows Screen Graphic
Do you ever wonder how people go about capturing the image of a currently displaying Windows screen? Perhaps not, maybe you already own a graphic capturing package. That is fine, keep reading; you may still find value in this article. Of a certain, those who run Windows Vista and Windows 7 have such a program. It is called “Snipping Tool” and it resides under Accessories in the Program Manager menu.
A problem exists when using “Snipping Tool”: other than a highlighter and an ink pen, it has no worthwhile editing functions. Images that are captured with this tool must be saved and then reopened within a full graphic editing software. To further complicate matters, older versions of Windows do not include “Snipping Tool”; neither do most graphic editing packages include screen-capturing features.
Here is a little known but long existing Windows screen-image capturing method. It too requires that you open an image-editing tool, but there is no need for double programs, and neither must you have a graphic tool that includes a screen capture utility.
On your keyboard you will see a key labeled “PrtSc/SysRq”. This can be used, when setup under the right program arrangements, to force a printer dump of the current screen. Right now, a printer dump is not our focus. Instead, we will use this special key to capture the current display screen.
It works like this:
- Tap the “PrtSc/SysRq” key one time. [Do it now. It will not hurt a thing].
- Open the Windows integrated Paint software (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint). [Or open whatever graphic program that touches your fancy].
- Click on the Paste function.
- There it is, the screen shot that you just captured using the Windows “PrtSc/SysRq” screen capture routine.
- Limit the capture to just what you want by applying the graphic editor’s Crop function.
This is quick and easy, even more so than a Snipping Tool type software. I use this Windows feature whenever I pull a picture from http://commons.wikimedia.org for use with my ezine articles. It often saves time over going through the download route. What’s more, the captured image can also be pasted directly into a word process or most any other software that receives graphic input. Just for the show of it, I captured this screen as I typed, pasted the capture onto the bottom of the article, captured the copy, and then pasted the copy into Paint for final cropping and saving.
Cool, Hun?
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