Making a Screenshot

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MedicWill

When you press the print screen button where does the image go? Also, is
this the way that I can make a picture of my desktop? Will I have to have
photoshop or similar product to make it happen? All i have is Picture it.
Thanks for your time.
 
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MedicWill said:
When you press the print screen button where does the image go?
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To the clipboard
Also, is
this the way that I can make a picture of my desktop?
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Hit print screen and.......... (more in a bit)
Will I have to have
photoshop or similar product to make it happen? All i have is Picture it.
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Paint works for this purpose. Simple clear off the desktop of unwanted
items, hit print screen, launch Paint and hit ctrl-v. Other imaging editing
products work similiarly.
 
Hi,

It is on the clipboard. Once there, open any image editing program and click
edit/paste.

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Or... if you just want something quick that you can blast
off to a friend, paste it in Word or the like...
basically anywhere you can paste images.

Hope this helps,

Nick
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MedicWill said:
When you press the print screen button where does the image go?
Also, is this the way that I can make a picture of my desktop? Will
I have to have photoshop or similar product to make it happen? All i
have is Picture it. Thanks for your time.
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Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows, this works differently,
and the name of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire
screen, or press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active
window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard.
Once it's in the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any
application that supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics
programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or add
to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing
it is an improvement over the original DOS method of just
printing it. But if you'd like that old facility back, there are
several third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this,
such as PrintKey2000
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).
 
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