Screenshot to .JPG

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Hi Tom,

On the keyboard, use PrtSc or print screen to capture the entire
screen.
Or use Alt - PrtSc to capture a selected or the in focus window.
 
Hi tom-n

Im a new user to this XP, and Im having trouble useing the "save as" to my
pictures. it takes the pic but wont re open them. can you give me any advise,
or tell me the right way to do this.
 
I tried to do a screen shot doing both the PrtSc and ALT + PrtSc but nothing
happened. Where is the screen shot on the computer? What file format will it
save it as?

Help,
Kim
 
Hi
When you use the "PrtScn" an image of waht is presently on your desktop or
active window "ALT PrtScn" is sent to a utility called the clipboard.
Using a paint or MS Word, use the paste option to insert an image of the
snapshot taken. The clipboard image is not saved until it is imported
"Pasted" into a document ot paint program and saved as such.

Regards

John
 
Thanks, that worked but it didn't capture a still of the video it's just
black where the video is. How do I capture a screen shot with the video
running in it?

Thanks,
Kim
 
What are you using as a viewer, Windows Media Player? Pressing ALT PrtScn
grabs an image of the active windows and the movie playing.
If you are using software such as pinnacle you can grab scenes or snapshots
of any Mpeg, AVI, Mov etc

Regards

John
 
crayon said:
I tried to do a screen shot doing both the PrtSc and ALT + PrtSc but
nothing happened. Where is the screen shot on the computer? What file
format will it save it as?
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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 at
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm
 
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