How do u capture a screen shot??

[korn_kid]

I notice when some people post their question they attached an image of there screen. How do u do that, is it some kind of application or your video card that does that?
The reason I ask is because sometimes I have question and it's better to show a picture of my problem than describing it.

[Meaty]

press printscreen and paste into photoshop

that is of course if you are on a PC, not sure how to do it on mac, though i do know (i think) that it changes depending on the OS.

[wapangy]

On Mac OS X, you press cmd-shift-3 for the whole screen, cmd-shift-4 to select a portion of it, and cmd-shift-4-space to select individual windows and things.

[John Melvin]

(alt-print screen) copies only the active window to the clip board.

John

[korn_kid]

Wow,
that was easier than I thought,
Thanks.


Look it work, cool:
http://davidaguilar.0catch.com/screen.JPG
test

[PHilly[Dee]]

or, if you're really poor and don't have PhotoShop, just open the "RUN" box, and type in MSPAINT :D (actually I go with this because it's a lot faster to start up than PhotoShop...)

PS: I ain't no M$ pusher...

[Beamtracer]

For Mac OS X users, I'd recommend using Snap Pro Z for screen shots. It can capture a selected portion of the screen, or do a time delay before it takes the shot, or even create a Quicktime movie of motion on your screen.

[PHilly[Dee]]

Originally posted by John Melvin
(alt-print screen) copies only the active window to the clip board.

John

Hey, that's pretty useful!

[Hiraghm]

What do these tutorials use to capture screenshot animations? Surely they don't use the printscreen/past-into-paint-program for that?

[Gordon]

Rendersoft has a wonderful freeware program for windows.

Click here to go to the website for CamStudio (http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/)

[Skonk]

A lot of ppl use Camtasia (www.techsmith.com) me included, really good program tho it aint free :)

I think the almighty Dan Ablan also uses it :)

James..