{"id":1366,"date":"2011-04-16T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2011-04-16T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T14:05:15","slug":"screen-shots-more-than-one-way-to-shoot-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/screen-shots-more-than-one-way-to-shoot-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen shots – more than one way to shoot the screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thelma wants to know how to make screen shots<\/strong>
\nI would like to know how to make those neat screen shots you make in your newsletters. Would it be possible to give step by step directions how to do those, in one of your up-coming newsletters. Thanks so much!<\/p>\n

Our answer<\/strong>
\nSince you’re using Windows 7 you have the Snipping Tool. The \t\t\t\tSnipping Tool makes it easy for you to make shots of your whole \t\t\t\tscreen or just part of it. You can launch the Snipping Tool by:<\/p>\n

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  1. Typing Snipping Tool in the start menu search bar<\/li>\n
  2. Click Start and type SnippingTool.exe and press Enter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When you open Snipping Tool it will appear on your screen, \t\t\t\tbut it won’t be in the screen shots you take with it (it would \t\t\t\tspoil your screen shot).<\/p>\n

    \"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

    We took the screen shot above using a different program so we \t\t\t\tcould show you what the Snipping Tool looks like. Once Snipping \t\t\t\tTool is on your screen you can use your mouse to “cut out” a \t\t\t\trectangular section of whatever is on your screen (select \t\t\t\tRectangular Snip). You can do a free-form snip (Free-form Snip). \t\t\t\tYou can take screen shot of the active program window (Window \t\t\t\tSnip). Or you can take a screen shot of the entire screen \t\t\t\t(Full-screen Snip). We used the Rectangular Snip to take the \t\t\t\tscreen shot below:<\/p>\n

    \"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

    You can do all sorts of other things like highlight text in \t\t\t\tthe screen shot, draw on it, or send your snip by email as an \t\t\t\tattachment or in the body of your email.<\/p>\n

    \"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

    As you can see by the image above – you can draw on your \t\t\t\tpicture and easily highlight text. If you make a mistake with \t\t\t\tyour highlight or drawing, Snipping Tool even has an eraser. The \t\t\t\tyellow highlight, the blue arrow, the blue rectangle and the red \t\t\t\toutline were all done in snipping tool. We used a a different \t\t\t\tprogram to highlight the Snipping Tool’s toolbar. Remember when \t\t\t\tyou take a screen shot with Snipping Tool the Snipping Tool does \t\t\t\tnot appear in your screen shot.<\/p>\n

    When you get your screen shot just the way you want it, you \t\t\t\tcan email it (see the Mail icon?) or you can save it. If you try \t\t\t\tto close Snipping Tool before you save your screen shot, you’ll \t\t\t\tsee this dialog:<\/p>\n

    \"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

    If you’re going to be sending your picture by email or using \t\t\t\tit on Facebook or another site, we recommend PNG or JPG – \t\t\t\tespecially if your screen shot contains many colors. GIF format \t\t\t\tis good for images that don’t have many colors (GIF format is \t\t\t\tlimited to 256 colors). Most screen shots contain many colors so \t\t\t\tPNG and JPG are better choices, because PNG and JPG can render millions of \t\t\t\tcolors. All the screen shots in this newsletter are either PNG \t\t\t\tor JPG.<\/p>\n

    The best way to learn the Snipping Tool is by using it and \t\t\t\tplaying with it. You’ll find it’s easy to learn and there are a \t\t\t\tlot of different ways you can use it. The Snipping Tool is \t\t\t\tavailable in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

    For those of you using\u00a0 Windows XP or older versions of\u00a0 \t\t\t\tWindows, you can make screen shots the old fashioned way – and \t\t\t\tyou don’t have to download any other programs either. You can \t\t\t\tuse Paint to make screen shots.<\/p>\n

    It’s very simple. When you have whatever you want to take a \t\t\t\tscreen shot of on your screen, press the Prnt Scrn (Print \t\t\t\tScreen) key – normally located in the top right corner of your \t\t\t\tkeyboard.<\/p>\n

    Then click Start\/Run and type in MSPAINT.EXE in the Run box and \t\t\tpress Enter. When Paint appears at the top, double-click it to open the \t\t\t\tprogram. When the program is open, click Paste (on the Paint \t\t\t\ttoolbar – at the far left). You’ll see the picture of whatever \t\t\t\twas your screen when you clicked the Prnt Scrn key.<\/p>\n

    Click File “Save \t\t\t\tas” (for most images you’ll want to save as a JPG or PNG) \t\t\tand give your image a name and save it. \t\t\t\tThat’s all there is to it.<\/p>\n

    For those of you who want a more capable tool for making great screen shots, we highly recommend the last freeware version of Faststone Capture. The current version of Faststone Capture is not free – but we know where you can get the last freeware version of it – and it works great.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thelma wants to know how to make screen shots I would like to know how to make those neat screen shots you make in your newsletters. Would it be possible to give step by step directions how to do those, in one of your up-coming newsletters. Thanks so much! Our answer Since you’re using Windows 7 you have\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[636,827,928],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}