screenshots

[Hobo]

Ok I tried to take a screenshot by hitting printscreen but nothing happened does it prompt you to save a file or does it just save it somewhere automatically if so where? is that even the button? Do you hit print screen?

[Rebel]

On most keyboards there should be a button that says Print Screen, or Print Scrn. After you do print screen, open up an image editor such as MS Paint and do a ctrl+v (...or just mouse leftclick and hit paste) to paste your screenshot. Now save your image as either a bitmap (bmp) or graphic interchange format (gif), and you are finished.

[jmiller]

Originally posted by Hobo
Ok I tried to take a screenshot by hitting printscreen but nothing happened does it prompt you to save a file or does it just save it somewhere automatically if so where? is that even the button? Do you hit print screen? If you're running on Windows hit Alt + Print Screen. Then open up something like paint, and paste it there. :)

[Dusty]

Holding down Alt while pressing Print Screen captures the window, if you want a true screenshot (i.e. the whole screen), then you just need press Print Screen.

[jmiller]

Originally posted by Dusty
Holding down Alt while pressing Print Screen captures the window, if you want a true screenshot (i.e. the whole screen), then you just need press Print Screen. Right, forgot about that. I'm used to just wanting to capture a single browser window and such.