How to take screenshots?

Yesterday I received a mail by a school kid to teach him how to take screen shots (like the ones we have in the blog). He explained me that he needed some screen shots for his school project. So I decided to write down a tutorial to help kids like him. To start with we can take screen shots by 2 ways. First is by using Software like Fraps and second is by using ‘Print Scr’ key in your keyboard. The following tutorial is by using ‘Print Scr’ key. Ok the key is present on the top right side of the keyboard and has ‘Print Sc’ or ‘Prt Sc’ or something similar written. My Compaq laptop has ‘Prt Sc’. After you find it we can start with the process.

Here is how it is done.

1) Go to the screen you wish to take screenshot of. To explain you clearly I would take the screenshot of a small flash game from AddictingGames.

I'll use this image to get the screen shot of the game.

2) After you are ready to take the Screen Shot, Press the Print Screen button.

3) Now go to ‘Paint’ in your Windows.

4) Press ‘Ctrl + V’ to paste the screen

5) Select the required part. I’ll select the game part.

Selecting the desired part.

6) Now after you have selected the required part. Press ‘Ctrl + X’ to cut the selected part. Open a new paint document and press ‘Ctrl + V’ to paste.

7) Add text and other things if you wish. I’ll add the Blog2Tutorials watermark to the Image.

Added the watermark.

8) Save the Image file and use as you wish.

Regards.

Mikeee ;)