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Need to take a screenshot on your computer?

I will help you:

I will show you 2 proven ways to take a screenshot on a computer or laptop, as well as how to save and send it.

I was inspired to write this article by people who in 2019 still use phones and cameras to capture what is happening on the screen.

Firstly, it produces an ugly blurry image. Secondly, it takes a long time and takes a lot of effort.

Let's get started:

Every version of Windows has standard programs installed by default that you can use to take a screenshot.

I will tell you about the most popular tools:

“Print screen” key + “Paint” program

To begin, find the Print screen key (the following versions are possible: PrtScr, PrtSc or Print Scrn). Most often it is located in the vicinity of the F12 key.

The next step is to open the window of which you want to take a photo: a website page, VK correspondence, a check for money transfer, ... In general, what you need to record at the moment.

I'll show you how to take a screenshot using a desktop example:

Press the “Print Screen” key if you want to take a photo of the entire screen. “Alt + Print Screen”, if you need a screenshot of only the active window, the program in which you are currently working. — It makes sense to use it if it is not open on the entire screen.

The screen will be saved to the clipboard. At the same time, you will not hear sound effects or animation, so do not rush to get scared that this function does not work for you.

Once a screenshot is in the buffer, you cannot copy any information before you save it. Otherwise, there will be a loss.

To see the resulting screen, you need to paste it into a program that can display graphics. For example, Paint, Photoshop - you can not only display it, but also make changes. Word, PowerPoint - viewing only.

I'll use the easy-to-use graphic editor Paint. Simply put, an image editing program.

I paste the screenshot into the editor using the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + V” or the “Paste” button in the upper left corner.

The key combination, pressing “Ctrl + V” at the same time, works in absolutely any program. If you can't, use the usual pasting using a computer mouse.

If you only need a specific part of the image, then use the tools “Select” and then “Crop” - highlighted in red rectangles in the picture above.

Don’t forget to left-click “Save”.

Scissors program

The easiest way to find a snipping tool is to use Windows Search:

1. Click on the magnifying glass icon next to the Start button
2. Enter the word “Scissors”
3. Right-click or Enter to launch the application

Alternative method: go to “Start” → “Accessories - Windows” folder:

Click “Create” and select the area of ​​which we want to take a photo. The default mode is “Rectangular”.

Mode functions:

1. Free form - the outline of the screenshot is drawn by hand using the mouse
2. Rectangle - selects a rectangular area
3. Window—takes a picture by clicking the mouse on the desired window. Convenient when several programs are open at once, not in full screen. By clicking the mouse you can select to capture only one of them.
4. Full Screen - Takes a photo of everything you see on the monitor in front of you

Let's assume that you need to take a screenshot of VK correspondence:

1. Go to the dialogue and find the messages you need
2. In the Snipping Tool, click New
3. Select the area you want to take a photo of

Then you will have:

By the way, using the Pen and Marker tools you can make inscriptions and notes on the screenshot. And erase any mistakes you make with an eraser.

F1 - open help. Useful for those who want to get acquainted with the work in “Scissors” in more detail.

1. Click "File" in the scissors program, in the upper left corner
2. "Save as..."
3. Select a location to save the file
4. Change name if necessary

The first and second points can be replaced with the key combination “CTRL + S”.

In my case: Location - desktop, File name - Untitled.jpg, which ideally needs to be changed to something more understandable. Otherwise, after a while you will not be able to find the photo you need: the screenshots will have almost the same name, except for the number at the end.

If you try to close Snipping Tool without saving the image, a dialog box will pop up asking you to do so.

This can also be regarded as another saving option.

How to take a screenshot without programs?

In order to take a screenshot without using programs, you must simultaneously press the “Win ​​+ Print Screen” keys.

After which the screenshot, without sound and visual effects, will be automatically saved in PNG format to the address: “This PC” → “Images” → “Screenshots”.

You can go to this folder to edit, copy or send the picture.

Don’t forget to come up with a unique name for each photo, otherwise you’ll end up with something like this:

How to send a screenshot in a message?

There are two ways to send a screenshot:

Second, press the “Print screen” button or select the desired area for the picture using the “Scissors” program. Then, in the message sending field, use the key combination “CTRL + V” or right mouse button, and then “Paste”.

Conclusion

Each of the 3 methods described in this article has its own pros and cons:

“Print Screen” + Paint - works in 100% of cases, but is the longest and most labor-intensive.

“Scissors” are very easy to use. Indispensable when the “PrtSc” button does not work, is broken or is missing at all. But they don’t always work, for example, when you need a screenshot of a window that closes with a click.

"Win + Print Screen" is a quick way to take many pictures of the entire screen without changing titles or editing.

Choose a photo creation method based on your specific tasks. Remember, there is no best, only the most convenient in the current situation.

If you have any problems or questions, feel free to ask them in the comments!

1. How to take a screenshot on a computer without using any third-party software, that is, using the operating system itself? There are always a lot of screenshots on your website (snapshots of what is happening on the computer screen) and they are made, one might say, masterfully. You yourself sometimes ask users to send you screenshots in order to better understand the situation and give comprehensive advice. For example, today you asked me to send you a screenshot of the Disk Management screen. What program is best to do this?
2. Letter No. 2 Hello admin, I ask for your advice, I recently created a website for working with Audio/Video editors and a simple question immediately arose - how to take a screenshot on your computer. I tried the Clip2net program, but could not figure it out. I saw the FastStone Capture program in your screenshots, what good or bad can you say about it?

How to take a screenshot on a computer

Now a more serious question - you have created your website on the Internet and you need to make a great variety of screenshots, you want to take over the Internet, then you need a more professional tool. So, first things first.

This nice little program opened.

So the task is how to make a screenshot of the Disk Management window with this program?
Well, let's go to this very Disk Management: Computer->Management->Disk Management.

Now, press the Print Screen (PrtScn) key on the keyboard once, it can be found in the upper right corner of the keyboard.

After you click Print Screen, a screenshot of your desktop is placed on the clipboard. And now it’s the turn of our built-in Windows Paint program. We return to our program and click the Insert button.

As you can see, we have a screenshot of the entire desktop, from which we can cut out what we need, for example the Disk Management window.

Click the Crop button

That's all

By the way, if you press the Alt + Print Screen combination on your keyboard, the computer will take a screenshot of the current or currently active window. Press Alt + Print Screen, then click the Insert button in our program and, as we see, you don’t even need to crop anything. The screenshot of the Disk Management window is ready. In our program we can also change the size of the screennote, rotate it, write on it, draw, erase, and so on. How to take a screenshot on a computer using FastStone Capture

Well, comrades, I chose the legendary FastStone Capture tool to take screenshots, although it’s paid, but if you install it, you can try all its features for free for 30 days, and then you’ll ask for a little money.

Developer's website http://www.faststone.org/index.htm

FastStone Capture is a multifunctional program, the main purpose of which is to take screenshots and edit any part of the screen, it works with all known graphic formats. With FastStone Capture, you can do almost anything with an image: cut, reduce, rotate, shade, saturate, blur, caption, point with arrows, put watermarks and even make a movie, whatever you've been doing.

Snipping Tool in Windows 7

The Snipping Tool allows you to take a screenshot of any element on your desktop or the entire screen. The program is launched from the menu Start → All Programs → Accessories.

More details

Mac OS

To take a screenshot in Mac OS, press the keyboard shortcut ⌘ Cmd + Shift + 3. A file with a snapshot of the entire screen will appear on your desktop.

If you want to take a screenshot of a specific part of the screen, press the keyboard shortcut ⌘ Cmd + Shift + 4 and highlight the desired area of ​​the screen with the cursor.

To take a screenshot of just the active window, press the keyboard shortcut ⌘ Cmd + Shift + 4 and then press Spacebar.

iOS

The iOS platform allows you to take a screenshot using standard tools starting from version 2.x. To take a screenshot, press and hold the button for a couple of seconds Sleep/Wake Mode and Home. The resulting images are saved in the standard Photo application.

Android

You can take a screenshot on a mobile device running Android in different ways, depending on the device manufacturer and platform version. The resulting images are saved in the standard Gallery application.

• Android 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
• Android 3.2 and higher
• Android 1.x and 2.x
• Samsung

Press and hold the button for a couple of seconds Decrease volume and Nutrition.

Press and hold the button for a while Recent Programs.

The Android platform version 2.x and below does not support taking screenshots using standard means. You must use third-party applications installed from Google Play.

Press and hold the Home and Power or Back and Home buttons for a couple of seconds (depending on your device).

Press and hold the Power and Home buttons for a couple of seconds.

Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 8.1 and 10
• Windows Phone 8

This is a screenshot, a picture that shows everything that is on your screen. The need to take a screenshot arises quite often. Therefore, this function was built directly into the operating system. In this material you will learn about which key to take a screenshot on a computer with the Windows operating system.

In the Windows operating system, the PRINT SCREEN key is used to take screenshots (on some keyboards PRT SCN). This key is located in the upper left part of the keyboard, next to the NUM LOCK, CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK indicators. In order to take a screenshot you just need to press this key.

After pressing the PRINT SCREEN key, the screenshot will be placed on the clipboard. In order to save this screenshot as a picture, you need to open any graphics editor, paste the screenshot into it and save it as a file. For example, you can open the built-in graphics editor Paint. To do this, open the Start menu and search for “Paint.” After this, the system will find this program and you can open it.

After opening the Paint program, click on the “Paste” button or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-V. After this, your screenshot will appear in Paint.

After saving the picture, you will receive the screenshot you need as a file.

A little trick: When taking a screenshot, you can use the PRINT SCREEN key together with the ALT key. In this case, the system will create a screenshot of only the active window. This way, you can create screenshots only of the program you are currently working with.

This approach saves a lot of time. Since the resulting screenshot does not contain unnecessary information and does not need to be cropped in a graphics editor.

Often computer and Internet users are faced with the need to take a picture of what is happening on the computer screen, in other words, to photograph the screen or part of it. Such a picture is scientifically called a screenshot (from the English word screenshot).

A screenshot is a screenshot, that is, an image (photograph) of what a person sees on a computer monitor.

Here are a few examples of when and why it may be needed:

1. You are faced with some kind of computer problem or question and decide to ask a friend for help via email. Explaining everything that happens on your computer in words is too long and not always appropriate. But photographing and demonstrating the “problematic” moment is just right. It's both fast and convenient!
2. You are writing instructions for working with a specific computer program. It will be simply wonderful if you add illustrations to it (as in this article, for example).
3. You are a student and want your work in a computer discipline (essay, coursework, diploma) to be highly appreciated. In this case, illustrations will be a big plus.
4. You love playing computer games and would like to “capture” interesting moments.

How to take a screenshot in Windows. Print Screen button

If you need to take screenshots from time to time, that is, not a lot and not often, then the easiest way is to use the Print Screen button (it can also be called “Prt Scr”) on the computer keyboard.

As a rule, after pressing it, nothing happens - no clicks, no flashes. But the photographed screen will already be “fixed” in the computer’s memory.

Then you should open some image processing program(Paint, Photoshop or another similar one) or Microsoft Word program and insert the photographed screen inside.

I will show you how this is done in the Paint program, since this is a standard program and is available on almost every computer.

Finally, open the Paint program (Paint.net).

Click on the "Insert" button or on the "Edit" item and select "Paste".

That's it - the screenshot has been inserted! Now all that remains is to save it on your computer (File - Save As...).

If you want to insert this image into Microsoft Word, place the blinking cursor in the desired place on the sheet, right-click and select “Insert”.

Let's summarize. If you want to do full screenshot, need to:

• press the Print Screen button on your keyboard
• open Paint, Photoshop or Microsoft Word
• insert a photo into it
• save on computer

In case you need to do a snapshot of just one window which is currently open, press the Alt and Print Screen key combination, paste it into the desired program and save.

This method is universal, that is, it is suitable for any version of Windows.

Screenshot via Snipping Tool

If you have Windows Vista, Windows 7 or 8 installed on your computer, there is a more convenient way to “photograph” the screen. This is a small program called “Scissors” (Snipping Tool). Let's talk about it in more detail.

Click on the Start button in the lower left corner of the screen.

A list will open. Select “All Programs” (“Programs”) from it.

A fairly large list will appear. Select "Standards".

Finally, open the Snipping Tool.

If you do not have such a program, it means that it is simply not “built-in” into your system. In this case, take pictures using the previous method.

Most likely, a small window will appear, and the rest of the screen will seem to “fog up”.

The cursor will be in the form of a plus sign. With this plus sign you need to select the desired part of the screen or the entire screen, that is, press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, drag over this part. As soon as you release the left mouse button, the part you selected will be “cut out” and “added” to a special small program.

In it you can make some edits and save the resulting screenshot to your computer (File - Save As...).

Programs for taking screenshots

If you need to take screenshots often, it is better to use special programs for creating and editing screenshots. There are a lot of such programs. There are great paid options, such as SnagIt or FastStone Capture. But there are no less wonderful free versions.

I've tried many of them. I’ll tell you about those that I especially liked and that I use myself.

Screenshot Maker is a very convenient, fast program with many functions. You can “photograph” both the entire screen and part of it, change the resulting image, save it in different formats and with different quality settings.

You can download this program (Free version) from the official website or by clicking on the link.

Hot Key Screenshot is perfect for those who love computer games. It will quickly create a screenshot using the assigned key and save it to the computer in a special pic folder (located in the program folder). No installation required.