What's a Screen Shot, and how do I make one?

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hey, i did everything you said to do in your article but once i open paint or photoshop, you can't click the paste button which means that it didn't work. i don't know what i'm doing wrong?

The most common problem I see is that PrntScrn sometimes is on a key with another fnction as well. Often in those cases you need to also press shift, Fn or FLock key to get it to work. Exactly what depends on exactly what keyboard you have.

RE: capturing a screen shot...
Leo,
When I open "Accessories" I do not have a "Paint" selection in the box. You mention "or equivalent" but I don't know what program that might be. Can you set me straight? I have Windows XP Home Edition. Thanks.

There are lots of image editing programs out there. PaintShop Pro, Gimp, Adobe Photo Shop, and many more.

i use printkey2000,its good,and free.

A great free program for doing screen captures is MWSnap from http://www.mirekw.com.
It allows you to capture all or selected part of screen. You can then print it directly, save the picture to a file, or copy/paste it to your word processor or whatever.

For best, easiest results, try Screenshot Captor from the Donation Coder Website (www.donationcoder.com). It has built in editing designed specially for screenshots and is registerware.

it's really a good article for biginners. this works in many conditions, but still some does not work. for example, if someone need tocapture a screenshot of streaming video or a series of screenshots. sometime a screen demo tells more, there are many tools there can make this, such as DemoBuilder(easy to use and powerful, but only have a 256 color depth output), DemoCreator (a fresh man in this field, but a really good potential competitor of demobuilder), Captivate (maybe the most powerful one, but costful and a little complicated for biginners), Camtasia (powerful, but takes too much system resource).
DemoBuilder, http://www.demo-builder.com
DemoCreator, http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html
Captivate, http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com

Fantastic article as a senior citizen with no computer training I often make elementary errors or find tutorials over complicated.This one was great
although I even managed to complicate by not opening a file in Photoshop and tried to paste it direct into the Programme.I hope this little aside helps other beginners
Richard

I found you by way of a Google search.

I have not been able to do a screen shot since I got my wireless keyboard. I was hoping to find an answer here. I used to be able to do it the way you explained.

Now I feel stupid for having to ask this question because when I go to my paint program there is no "paste" option available. This makes me need to know where to find my clipboard. (Hanging my head in shame.)

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