How to make a screen - a screenshot?

Infinite set of programs with which help it is possible to work on the computer, pleases and slightly frightens the unsophisticated users. Here is what, for example, a screen or a screenshot? And this is just an ordinary screenshot of the computer.

It displays everything that we see on the screen of our monitors. Usually when creating a picture, the screen is taken without displaying the cursor that was on the screen at the time of shooting. It's thought out and done very conveniently. The cursor does not interfere with viewing all the necessary elements, even the smallest ones. The monitor screen can have text, small images or symbols, photos and much more.

How to make a screen, you say? The screen image in digital format is obtained thanks to your operating system or other special program. Sometimes, when a user does not have the skills or the ability to make a screen using an OS or a special program, he resorts to getting a picture with the help of other equipment. Use a camera or video camera. But why complicate the situation when there are easier ways to take a picture from the screen.

So, let's look at several options, How to make a screen?

The first easiest and most common is to take a photo of the screen through the operating system of your computer.

For this important and necessary process on the computer keyboard there is a special key called "Print Screen". You should close all unnecessary tabs on the screen of your monitor, leaving only what you need to fix on the photo. Make sure that no program for taking screenshots hangs open in the Quick Launch bar and is disabled. Then press the desired key on the keyboard. After that, open the standard Paint program and select "edit" and "paste" from the top menu. The image that you decided to remove appears in the program itself in the edit field. Go to the "file" menu and click on the "save as ..." line. We write the name of the file, choose the format of the image that best suits you - bmp, jpeg, gif, png, the place where you want to save the finished file

And click on the "save" button. The file is ready. Now you can do with it whatever you want.

How to make a screen of the page with the help of special programs?

Take, for example, the Snagit 7 utility (English version). To remove the usual screenshot, you just need to start the program and press the "capture" button. At the same time, a visible cursor with a cross appears, which you draw around the screen area necessary to take a picture to make a screen.

Right after selecting the part of the screen you need, the window for saving the image is automatically opened. Select the "save as ..." line in the "file" tab and click on it. In the window for saving the object, select the place where you want to save the image, come up with and enter the name for your picture and select the format.

Now you know how to make a screenshot of the monitor on your computer. The resulting image can be printed, sent via email, Skype, mail.ru agent, ICQ or just put this image on the main photo in social networks such as "Classmates", "In contact" and so on.

I'll make you happy that the screenshot can be removed not only from the image or text, but also from the video. If you need one frame from the video as an image, it's good to use the BSPlayer program in this case. Well, if you need to make a video screen exactly in video format such as avi or some other, then the Snagit program of any version and not only it will help you with this.

Now you can tell your friends about how to make a screen from the computer monitor, if it is urgently needed. You have a small addition to your existing experience with computers and other software that comes with it.