How do you "print screen", and where does it go?

[MichaelD]

I'd like to post my SANDRA results. I know you either hit "Ctrl and Print Screen" or "Shift and Print Screen". But where does the file go after that, and how do you get it into one of these posts? Is it like adding a URL or something like that? I know this has been covered before. I searched and didn't find it under "print screen" or "capture screen". Thanks.

 

[alkemyst]

I think it's alt-print screen....it goes to the clipboard. Open Paint Brush or a graphics program like photoshop/paint shop pro and hit ctrl-V and you will see it.

Chris

 

[titaniumone1]

Actually, its just Print Screen. Thats why its called Print Screen. You just press it.

Then open Paintbrush, Photoshop, Paint shop pro, whatever, and do Paste (or Paste As New Image).

 

[MichaelD]

OK, it worked. But now how do I take the "full size" image and make it nice and small so I can paste it in the text box that we post in? Thanks much.

 

[BrammeS]

I always first paste it in paint. Then i take ACDsee and convert it to JPG. QA full sized screenshot takes about 90Kb in 1024*768 but you can cutt of the parts you don't need. and configure the quality of the image!!

 

[dalfollo]

Print Screen does the whole screen,
Alt + Print Screen does the ACTIVE window...

now it on the clipboard...open a paint program (NOT MS PAINT) like Paint SHop Pro, choose 'EDIT|Paste as new image' (or rightclick on PSP main window and click 'Paste as new image')

Save the image as a .gif (good for <256 colors, most windows) or .jpg (good for millions of colors like pictures of people or phot scans)

 

[interchange]

Paint Shop Pro will allow you to resize the image. I think Windows Paint will actually do the same (somewhere in editing) but it can only work with bitmap (.bmp) images, which is a huge limitation. BMP's are extremely large compared to other image formats, so I wouldn't fool with them.

.GIF is a 256-color image format that helps cut down on the number of pixels that need to be recorded. It actually does this lengthwise, so it records the color of the first pixel and then a value of how many pixels in the same row are the same color, and so an and so forth.

.JPG (JPEG) is a variable palette variable compression format that is often used for high-quality images. It can also significantly reduce image size, but deteriorate quality with compression. It is useful for things other than windows (like photos, etc.) that don't have contiguous pixels of the same color.

 

[thorin]

Print Screen takes the entire visible area
Al+Print Screen takes the active window

They are both sent to the clipboard.

Thorin