Many PC users are interested in the question of how to photograph the monitor screen, i.e. make a screenshot that can be used in various presentations, demos, lessons, etc. There are several ways to do this.
One of the options for taking pictures of the monitor screen is the standard means of the operating system, for example, Windows. This is a very easy way, just use the Print Screen button present on the keyboards of all modern computers and laptops.
If you still don’t know how to take a picture of
the monitor screen using this function, follow the short instructions. As soon as the image necessary for the picture appears on the display, i.e. The desired window, program, etc. will open, click Print Screen. This will cause the image to appear on the clipboard of the operating system. After that, you need to use any available graphic editor (standard or additionally installed), creating a new document in it. After that, it remains only to paste the received image stored in the
clipboard into it, and then save it.
This method allows you to take a screenshot of the entire screen, its entire area. If you need, for example, to take a photo of only the active window, you need to use the key combination "Print Screen + Alt". After that, the image will also appear in the clipboard and its further processing is similar to that described above.
If necessary, take a picture of only a certain part of the screen, you can use special software. There are a huge number of different programs designed for this, both free (for example, "Simple Screenshot", "Magic Screenshot"), and paid ("SnagIt"). They provide the user with the widest possibilities, such as selecting an area for a picture, editing a screenshot, and others.
Many also wonder how to take a screenshot of the video. If you need to take a photo of the monitor screen from the currently playing video file, you can use the already familiar combination of "Print Screen + Alt" at the moment when the media player window is active. It is possible to take a picture at the time of its playback in almost any popular program used to play files of this type.
For example, to get a screenshot of a video in one of the most popular players - Media Player Classic - you can do this: after starting the file, press the "Pause" button at the moment when the playback reaches the desired location. Then execute File - Save Image. After that, the resulting photo can be saved in .jpg or .bmp format and processed like any other.
There is also another interesting way to create screen shots using this player. You can take photos of several fragments of a video file at once by selecting the Save Thumbnails option. There you can also set the number of images in one image by changing the number of columns / rows, as well as the width of the thumbnails created.
Now you know how to take a picture of the monitor screen, the active or any other of its parts, take a screenshot of the video file being played. As you can see, this is not a big deal.