Screenshots: 4 Ways to capture screen

Screenshots: 4 Ways to capture screen. Microsoft provides several ways to take screenshots of your computer screen entirely, or just a selective region on the screen. The easy and fastest way to take a screenshot on Windows is by hitting the “PrtScn” key on your keyboard.

Microsoft also provides a Snipping Tool which helps to take custom screenshots of your screen and to draw or make changes on the captured images.

If you need to capture something on your computer screen, Windows offers several ways of screen capturing to take the entire screen, Here, let’s see all the most common techniques for saving a screenshot.

Method 1

The very simplest way to save a copy of your entire computer screen is to simply hitting the ” PrtScn” key on your keyboard. It’s located in the top row on your keyboard near the Function keys.

On some laptop keyboards, the Print Screen can be used by holding the Function key and then pressing the ‘PrtScn’ key. This saves the entire screen to the clipboard. You can use the screenshot by pasting into any program that displays images like Microsoft Word, Paint, etc.

Method 2

Press the Windows key + Shift + S. By using this combination, the entire screen will dim and the mouse pointer will change to capture mode. You can drag the pointer to capture a portion of the screen. You can select a full screen, rectangular, window, or free-form snipping shape. The screenshot will be saved to the clipboard that you can use in other programs.

Method 3

Press the Windows key + PrtScn. This saves the entire screen as an image file in “Screenshots” folder under “Pictures”.

Method 4 – Screenshot Using Snipping Tool

Microsoft provides a more flexible inbuilt screenshot utility called Snipping Tool. You can use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot and save it as an image.

How to use Snipping Tool

• Open the Snipping Tool from the Start menu.
• In the “Mode” drop-down, you can choose one of the snipping shapes you like – you can choose full screen, rectangular, window, or free-form shape.
• Click on New and use the mouse to create the screenshot. The captured screenshot will appear in the Snipping Tool.
• Using the Delay menu, you can specify how long to wait before taking the screenshot.
• Using drawing tools, you can annotate the screenshot.
• To save the screenshot to your computer, click “File” and then “Save As” (Ctrl + S).
• You can use the copy button in the Snipping Tool window to copy the image to your clipboard (Ctrl + C) as other capturing methods.

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