How to capture SCREENSHOTS of your desktop
How to capture SCREENSHOTS of your desktop
ghost | 6297 Reads | There is sometimes a need for a person to take a screenshot of their screen so that other people can troubleshoot his/her PC based on the image they see; Sometimes a screenshot is taken for the shear pleasure of having it as eye candy. Anyhow, it is a useful and powerful way to show what is going on in your desktop (even your illegal downloads from bittorent, DC++, eMule, and Limewire) to other people.
To do this, using:
- WINDOWS XP
a. To take a picture of the fronstmost window
press ALT+[PrintScreen] b. To take a picture of the entire desktop, simply press [PrintScreen]
*go to NOTE (in the bottom)
- LINUX a. Pressing Alt-[PrintScreen] grabs the frontmost window, while pressing PrintScreen by itself grabs the entire desktop image. You'll be presented with a "SaveAs" dialog to save the PNG image. b. You can also just press [PrintScreen] to get an entire snapshot of the screen.
*go to NOTE (in the bottom)
- MAC
a. Pressing Command + Shift + 3 creates a
PDF (or PNG in Tiger) file on your desktop
containing a capture of the whole screen.
b. Pressing Command + Shift + 4 lets you
select the area to be captured. To take a capture of a menu or a window, press space bar after Command + Shift + 4. To copy a screenshot into a clipboard, hold CTRL key when issuing the commands above.
*go to NOTE (in the bottom)
NOTE: After taking the screenshot, keep in mind that it is stored in the clipboard… so just "PASTE" it to an editing program and do it what you like with it (i.e. "SAVE" it).
ADVICE - Go trigger happy with it, and try to save 1,000,000 snapshots to your HD (yes, it is my challenge for you!)
ghost 17 years ago
Well written - Good article. Not that many people will need it but that is besides the point.
ghost 17 years ago
Errm, is this meant to be a joke? Screenshots are the stuff you learn @ primary school!
ghost 17 years ago
Well I have to say this is something you would learn pretty easily but I have friends that dont know how to take screeenshots. Besides that the directions aren't complex and are easy to understand.
AldarHawk 17 years ago
WTF…I agree with mozzer…HOW is this an article? who would have thought that the printscreen key would actually do what it is labeled to do!?
I think this is awful!:o
ghost 17 years ago
Mozzer and Aldar you guys are my heros. Yes this would be a good article on a newbie site, for people that were learning the basics of a computer. because yes, there was a time when we all learning this crap but comon serisously if we all can hack a page, and the white house dontcha think we know how to get screenshots for it every step of the way?
ghost 17 years ago
IF you guys are "too l33t" to think that this article is not worthwhile posting, then don't make the "newbs" or even more experienced computer enthusiasts feel bad about their ignorance about the PrintScreen key. Not everyone knows how to take a snapshot of their screen (on every OS, too).
ghost 17 years ago
My, God I feel insulted netfish. Your think people are too ingnorant to the PS key. I recently did my ECDL, VERY basic computer course and along with copying, pasting and renaming files was PS key!!!
ghost 17 years ago
Although i knew how to take a screenshot, its well written article, and i like how you gave info for 3 different OS's :)
ghost 17 years ago
decent article, i think pretty much the same thing as absorb just said, but yea, it IS very basic stuff. (though it took me forever to figure out what the print screen button did.) and about the "try to save 1,000,000 snapshots to your HD (yes, it is my challenge for you!)" i don't think i have enough harddrive space for that.
ghost 17 years ago
basic or not, some people DON'T know it, so chill the fuck down with your leetism shit, cuz it's ridiculously arrogant of you.
ghost 17 years ago
I didnt know how it worked. I wasnt aware that it was in the clip bord so I though the damned thing didn't work. Thank you for the information.
ghost 17 years ago
Also mozzer we didnt all take basic computer courses. Hackthis59 I am far from even being considered a decent hacker but I can do some shit. And until recently the I didnt know how the key worked. Just because there is an absence of one piece of knowledge that is considered basic to many, doesn't mean that a person can not know anything else far more advanced.
ghost 17 years ago
omg, knutrainer - I was trying to explain that concept to mozzer, but he wouldn't get it. Hopefully, you get through to him.
ghost 17 years ago
I knew it before I took taht basic course. Also, why is this an essay, what has it got to do with hacking?
ghost 17 years ago
Aldar Hawk you can't call other people's article's. One of your recent ones - 'When you are this smart they call you MR'. That was horriffic.
ghost 17 years ago
Pathetic article. How to take a screenshot on Linux? That's assuming a lot- for one, that you're even using Xwindows, which is probably okay to assume, but who said that anyone's using any given X daemon or window manager?
korg 17 years ago
I was going to shit on this article myself, If your on this site I would assume you know ALL the functions of your keyboard. But from some of the pm's I've got and shit said in the shoutbox, There is a lot of people who have no clue here. IE Someone asked how do I find HKLM I want to tweak my windows? Yeah your going to fuck with the registry but don't know where it's at. God help us all. Good article for newbies to learn.