Sometimes it is very important to take a screenshot to capture forever what is happening at a particular moment. At its core, a screenshot is a photograph of what you see, which is made by the program and can capture both the entire screen and its small area. Many take screenshots while surfing the Internet, using some rare program or playing games in order to subsequently share what they see.
Discover, very easy. The easiest way is described in 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 bothers to embed screenshots in word processors like Microsoft Word or other programs, for example, as an illustration of your actions. Many people use the paint editor included with Windows to save a screenshot. This method is convenient in that 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 of not the whole screen, but only the active window, you need to press the key combination Alt + PrtScr, after which it will also be in the clipboard. Many software developers, especially media players, are introducing their own methods of creating screenshots into them. As a rule, keyboard shortcuts in these programs are used different from the system ones.
Web page screenshots are a separate topic. There are times when you urgently need to 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 the Alt + PrtScr combination will not help, taking a snapshot of the entire visible browser window. Sometimes the author of a screenshot has many tabs that are very confidential and have a corresponding title that should not be shown to others. It happens that you need to take a screenshot of a record on a social network and the first ten comments on it, which simply did not fit completely in the browser window. And, of course, there is a need to create a neat screenshot in a very fast time, but in order to do this, you have to take a screenshot, open the photo editor, copy it from the clipboard, and crop or make other adjustments, and then save. In such situations, you can go in two slightly different ways to solve 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 that also allow you to take screenshots. The most popular of these add-ons, as a rule, already know how to create snapshots of the entire web page from start to finish, no matter how large the area you see, edit them and add simple notes.