Screenshot on PC – Capture The Image, 6 Screenshot Commands, and More

Taking a screenshot on a PC is very simple and extremely useful; it will undoubtedly become one of your favourite tricks when using your computer.

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• If you are appealing screenshots on a Windows PC, the first thing to know is that there is no one-size-fits-all method to do so.
• Other options include sending screenshots to OneDrive, passing them through the Xbox game bar, and more.
• One way that several of us have applied for years is to use the Paint program, which is our favourite, but you can edit screenshots with almost any other tool, either ours or third parties.

How to take a screenshot on a PC

Step 1: capture the image

Windows provides six methods for taking a screenshot. Three require the Print Screen (PrtScn) key, while the rest require access to Windows (Win).

Proceeding external keyboards, you will find a PrtScn key located in the upper right corner.

The Win key is typically located in the lower left corner between the Control (Ctrl) and Alternate (Alt) keys.

It has the Windows logo, so it is easy to identify.

The Print Screen command can be combined with another function in a single key on notebook computers, as shown above.

In this situation, you must press the Function (Fn) key in adding to the Print Screen key.

Here we break down the 6 screenshot commands:

1.Print Screen (PrtScn): Capture the entire screen. If you have more than one display, it works as a single image, displayed on all connected displays. By default, it doesn’t save your image as a file and just sends the content to the clipboard.

2.Alt + Print Screen:  Capture a single window. Make certain to first highlight the target window, such as a document or browser, before pressing these keys (or three on a laptop). Evasion also does not save the image as a file, but instead sends it to the clipboard.

3.Win + Print Screen: Capture the entire screen. The change is that Windows saves the image as a file. By evasion, it is sent to C: Users Images Screenshots on your PC.

4.Win + Shift + S:  Take a screenshot with the built-in Snip & Sketch tool. The screen is dimmed and offers four options in a small toolbar: rectangular, freeform, window, and full screen. It also does not save the screenshots as an image, but instead sends them to the clipboard. We will detail this feature later.

5.Win + G: exposed the game bar. Clack the screenshot button, and this tool will save an image to C: Users VideosCaptures by default. To custom this tool, the Game Bar must be triggered in Settings> Games> Game Bar.

6.Win + Alt + Print Screen: Capture the whole screen. Keeps an image to C: Users VideosCaptures by evasion. To custom this tool, make sure the Game Bar screen capture feature is activated in Settings> Games> Game Bar. However, the screen flickers or dims to indicate that Windows took a screenshot. If not, open File Explorer and go to the default locations to see if Windows saved the image.

• However, if you use OneDrive, you can save screenshots to the cloud, so they are accessible from all your devices.
• It doesn’t do this by evasion, but you have to right-click the parked cloud icon next to the system clock and click Settings in the popup menu.
• Then hit the Backup tab in the resulting popup and verify that C captures the screen.
• However, you can press the first three Print Screen commands to save an image to OneDrive automatically in this situation. You will non see the screen flicker or dim.
• In its place, you will obtain a notification. Make certain to sync the Screenshots folder if you want to access the images on your PC.

Step 2: Open the Paint program

• If you secondhand a method that saves the screenshot locally as a file, you can find and view the image using the Photos app.
• If it worked, you can move it, assign it to an email, upload it to the cloud, etc.
• Though, if you need to crop an image, especially those taken on PCs with more than one screen, you have three native tools at your disposal: Paint, Paint 3D, and Photos.
• Likened to Paint and Paint 3D, Microsoft’s new Photos app is limited. You can rotate and crop images, revolutionize the aspect ratio, apply filters, adjust color, remove red-eye, and more.
• However, you cannot draw, paint, make an image from scratch, or paste from the clipboard.
• In this director, we use the Paint program because it is familiar and reliable.
• By evasion, you won’t find it on the Start menu. Instead, type Paint in the taskbar field and click on the resulting desktop application.
• The painting may also be available by right-clicking on an image. When the popup menu appears, hover over the Open with a menu option to find Paint, as shown below.
• You can also locate the program (mspaint.exe) in the C: WindowsSystem32 directory.
• Right-click on the File and choose Pin to jump from the popup to the menu.

A Step 3: Here paste the screenshot (clipboard methods only)

• You would need to follow this step if you used any of the ways that sent the screenshot to the clipboard.
• Through Paint open, click the Paste Clipboard Style button in the upper left corner.
• You can too press the Ctrl and V keys on your keyboard to paste the image onto the blank Paint canvas, which will expand as required.
• Through the screenshot inserted correctly in Paint, you can cut out, paint, create shapes, add text, and more.
• If you need to add stickers, 3D shapes, effects, and more, click the Edit with Paint 3D button at the far right of the toolbar.

Step 4: save the screenshot

• This stage applies to all screen capture methods.
• Once you’re doing editing the image, click the Main File option in the upper left corner. Then choice Save As from the drop-down menu.
• This option expands with selecting four file formats PNG, JPEG, BMP, and GIF, along with the Other Formats option to save your image as a TIFF or HEIC file.
• If you’re unfamiliar with image formats, check out our guide to JPEG vs. PNG

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