Create screenshots in various ways.

Sometimes it is very important to take a screenshot to permanently capture what is happening at a particular moment. In essence, a screenshot is a photograph of what you see, which is done by the program and can capture both the entire screen and its small area. Many make screenshots, sitting on the Internet, using some rare program or playing games, in order to subsequently share what they saw.

Learn how to make screens is very easy. The easiest way is described in the Windows help - just press the PrtScr key. After clicking, the screenshot gets to the clipboard, and after that it can be pasted into the photo editor to save. However, no one interferes with inserting screenshots into word processors like Microsoft Word or other programs, for example, as an illustration of your actions. Many people use the Paint graphics editor supplied with Windows to save the screenshot. This method is convenient because it will work on any version of Windows.

Paint allows you to add simple notes to a screenshot, for example, add text or highlight what you should pay attention to.

In order to take a screenshot not of the entire screen, but only the active window, you need to press Alt + PrtScr, after which it will also be on the clipboard. Many developers of programs, especially for media players, introduce their own methods of creating screenshots in them. Typically, the keyboard shortcuts in these programs are used different from the system ones.

Screenshots of web pages are a separate topic. There are times when you need to urgently take a screenshot on a very small area, or vice versa, very large, exceeding the space visible in the browser window. For such situations, even Alt + PrtScr, which takes a snapshot of the entire visible browser window, will not help. Sometimes the author of the screenshot has many tabs open, which have a very confidential nature and a corresponding title, which should not be shown to others. It happens that you need to take a screenshot of some entry in the social network and the first ten comments to it, which simply did not fit completely into the browser window. And, of course, there is a need to create a neat picture of the screen in a very fast time, and in order to do this, you have to take a screenshot, open a photo editor, copy it from the clipboard, and trim or make another adjustment, then save. In such situations, you can go on two slightly different ways of solving the problem. The first way is to install an alternative program that takes screenshots. Such programs are very useful in creating small screenshots. The second way is to install add-ons for browsers, which also allow you to take screenshots. The most popular of these add-ons, as a rule, are already able to create snapshots of the entire web page from start to finish, no matter how large the area you see, edit them and add the simplest notes.