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Creating
Screen Shots
Ever wanted to include the home page of your Web site in a Power Point
presentation? Ever wanted to write software instructions, complete
with graphics showing the software in action (kind of like I do on
this Web site)? It is extremely simple to do this by taking a "screen
shot" of your computer screen.
PC
Instructions: Set up your screen the way you want it. If you
intend to demonstrate the use of a program, you can open menus and
dialog boxes. You can even capture still images of video clips with
this technique.
Above
the "Insert" button on most PC keyboards, there is a "Print
Screen" button. Simply press the "print screen" button,
and your screen is copied to the Windows clip board.
Open
your image processing program (Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.). Create
a new image (Ctrl-N), and set the dimensions the same as your screen
resolution (640 x 480, 800 x 600, etc.). Note: Photoshop
automatically sets the new file dimensions to the dimensions of
the graphic in the clip board.
Paste
the clip board into the new image. Crop as desired, and you have
the image you wanted!
Macintosh
instructions: This process is a little different than the PC
technique. The magic keyboard combination is Apple-Shift-3 (no,
not F-3; just 3!). After performing this three-finger salute, you
should hear your hard drive make busy. This means that your Mac
has created a file named Picture1 and saved it to your hard
drive's root directory. If you take subsequent screen shots, the
computer will increment the file name (Picture2, Picture3, etc.).
Open the file, perform any necessary cropping, and enjoy!
If Apple-Shift-3 doesn't work, use Macintosh's Grab utility. |
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