A screenshot, also known as screen dump or screen capture, is a digital image of all items displayed on your computer screen. Learn how to take a screenshot of a webpage you want to save and view later or take screenshots of your computer’s internal problems so that it is easier for troubleshooting services to solve your problem. Know how to save screenshot of a web-page here.
Once you save a screenshot of a webpage, it cannot be changed, even if the webpage has been deleted or is no longer available. You can save screenshots of your computer screen irrespective of the operating system you are using. If you are using Windows operating system, the screenshot will be saved to a clipboard for pasting it in a program and saving later.
On the other hand, Mac computers will capture and save your screenshots at once. This article will deal with all these one by one and also tell you about some software that you can use to save screenshot of a webpage or computer error.
Windows XP
- You will first have to find out which keys you need to press together to capture a screenshot. In some computers, you will have to press only the Print Screen or PrntScrn button, while in others you might have to also press function keys such as Alt and Ctrl along with the Print key.
- Once you have figured out which keys to press, open the page of which you want to take a screenshot and press the required keys.
- Now go to the Start button, click on it and select All Programs. Then, click on Accessories and then Microsoft Paint.
- When the Microsoft Paint programs opens click anywhere on the blank white portion of the program, click on Edit tab at the top of the window and select paste option from the drop down.
- Your screenshot will be pasted here; you can crop the image if you want.
- Once you have cropped the image to suit your requirement, save it by clicking the File menu and selecting save option. Change the file type to either PNG or JPG format in the pop-up box and choose the location where you want to save the image.
Windows Vista
- Windows Vista has a new tool known as the Snipping Tool, which can use for saving screenshots of your computer screen.
- To go to this tool, click on Start menu and type Snip, and then press enter.
- The Spinning Tool will open and a white mask will come up on your screen.
- Now, go the “New” button, click on it and choose between rectangular snip, free-form snip, full-screen snip and window snip options in the drop down menu.
- If you select the free-form snip mode then you can simply draw around the area that you want to capture. In the rectangle mode, you can drag a rectangle around the image.
- If you select the full screen mode, you don’t have to manually do anything; just selecting this option from the drop down will capture your image from the screen.
- Finally, in the window snip mode, you can select the window that you wish to capture.
- The snipped image will now open in the Snipping Tool itself and it will also be copied in Windows clipboard where it can be used for other applications.
Macintosh
- If you are using Macintosh computer, you will have to go to a program known as grab on your computer. It is a pre-installed program for Mac users.
- Open Spotlight and type “grab” to open the grab program.
- When you open this program you will see a list of options, not any window.
- Go to “Capture” to start taking photos. You will have many options here.
- The first option is Selection, shortcut for which is pressing the A key, shift and Apply key together. This option will let you directly capture the image using a red box that you can drag on your image.
- The second option is Window and its shortcut is pressing the W key, shift and Apply key. This option will allow you to capture the image of the window you are in.
- The third option is the Screen option which lets you take a picture of the image that is showing currently on your computer screen. The shortcut for this is pressing the Z and Apple key together.
- Finally, the Timed Screen option, which you can also get by pressing the Z key, shit and Apple key, allows you to set a time till which the computer will wait before taking a screenshot.
There is also one program in the market that you can use for taking screenshots of your computer screen, without having to go through all of these steps. It is called the ImageShack Quickshot program and can be downloaded from the ImageShack website. Some of its benefits, apart from saving time, are:
- You can either take a picture of the full screen or only a picture of the window you have opened.
- It lets you save your own hotkeys for saving and uploading the screenshots automatically.
- It also lets you save each screenshot in the format you want (JPG, PNG etc.)
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