How to capture a screen

There are times when you need to show someone all that at the moment you have displayed on the screen of the monitor. Such a need may arise, for example, when corresponding with technical support, when you can't exactly describe the problem with your computer, and much better would be to show it graphically in the form of pictures. Whatever the reason, take a picture of the monitor screen will not be a big difficulty, especially if you use the guidelines below.

How to capture a screen
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Instruction

Prepare the area you want to photograph. If it's a browser window, make sure it is open and does not block other applications.

Find the keyboard key PrintScreen. It is usually located right of F12 and above the Insert key. Press the key once, now the screen is completely copied.

If you want to photograph not the whole screen, just a particular browser window, focus on it by clicking your mouse, then press Alt+PrtScr (PrintScreen). The window you need copied to the clipboard.

Open any graphics editor that is installed on your computer. The best option is Paint or Adobe Photoshop. Create a new file when the editor starts. In the menu "edit" select "Paste", after which the photographed image appears in the editor.

Trim if desired, additional elements using the crop tool, if you use Photoshop editing.

Save the file in the desired format. It is best to choose JPEG format, at least, GIF.
Open a new Word document and press Ctrl+V (or Menu "edit – Paste"). In the document insert a screenshot. Save the document, then sending it as an attached file.

Note

For imaging in cases when it is important quality required is a professional tool Photoshop (Photoshop)

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