Screengrabs

[antonroland]

Hello all

How do I do it, would love to hear from you about this.

I am involved in a local camera club and many of the members want to learn photoshop (both CS X and Elements X)

I would like to make some step by step direction pages of "how to" articles for them to take home and keep in a bundle...

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[photon]

You can get software that'll select a portion of the screen or the whole of a multi-page document, but you don't need anything fancy.

Look for the PrtScn button somewhere over on the right of your keyboard. You may need to press the F Lock button to enable it.

Have what you want to grab displayed on your screen and press the PrtScn button.

Go to a graphics app (even a simple one like IrfanView) and select Paste from the Edit menu (or try pressing Ctrl+V).

If the PrtScn button has been enabled, you should now have an image of what you've grabbed, ready for cropping and further editing.

 

[Craikeybaby]

PC or Mac?

 

[Trev4]

You can get software that'll select a portion of the screen or the whole of a multi-page document, but you don't need anything fancy.

Look for the PrtScn button somewhere over on the right of your keyboard. You may need to press the F Lock button to enable it.

Have what you want to grab displayed on your screen and press the PrtScn button.

Go to a graphics app (even a simple one like IrfanView) and select Paste from the Edit menu (or try pressing Ctrl+V).

If the PrtScn button has been enabled, you should now have an image of what you've grabbed, ready for cropping and further editing.

A simple method I use is to press and hold down the Ctrl button, then press the PrtScn button, this saves the current screen to your clipboard. Go to a program such as word or whatever you are using, Select edit, and then paste, the screen shot you captured will be inserted into your document.
If this works under all programs or platforms I dont know, it works with XP and Vista, plus Office programs, I suspect it will work on others too.
Good luck
Trev

 

[coalfire]

When I was working as an IT manager and had to produce alot of guides for people both paper and video I found techsmith products really good snagit for screen capture and camtasia to record the on screen actions for the video ( can add a voice over or text bubbles to explain things) info here http://www.techsmith.com/.

Or you can use PRTSCN as mentiond.

If you do produce some any chance of hosting them online as I am trying to learn more PS

 

[seventythree]

if you need to crop the screen dump then once you've <ctrl>,<prtSc> open up paint , click <edit> then <paste> .And it will be in paint for editing. Paint is also handy for circling things and adding arrows and text etc.

Al

edit: much better programs are avaliable i guess , but i manage fine with paint.

 

[antonroland]

Thanks for all the responses, folks! much appreciated

Coalfire, I don't think the guides I am about to start making will be of much use to you as my target audience are some older folks with even less pc skills than I posess.

PM me your email addy and I will happily pass along what I do.

Cheers all

 

[Marcel]

Or get Faststone Screen Grabber, something like that anyway.
If youre on a Mac, get skitch....it's free and funky and things

 

[Les McLean]

If you are running vista (or win 7) there's a handy little snipping tool that can grab parts or all of the screen-it's under -'start'...'all programs'...'accessories'

 

[Trev4]

If you are running vista (or win 7) there's a handy little snipping tool that can grab parts or all of the screen-it's under -'start'...'all programs'...'accessories'

Thats useful, I didnt know that one, cheers