Take a Picture of Your Screen

Taking a picture of your screen (called a screen capture, screen cap, or screenshot) is useful for a variety of purposes. If you need to know how to capture the image on your screen, read the directions below for getting screenshots from various operating systems and devices.

Steps

On A PC

  1. Find the right image. Make sure that your screen shows what you wish to take an image of. Make sure that your cursor or any other obstructions are not in the way.
  2. Press "Print Screen" on your keyboard.
  3. Open an image editing program. Open "Paint" or other image creation software of choice (like Photoshop).
  4. Paste the image. Right click on the drawing surface and select paste, select paste from the edit menu, or use the hotkey command Ctrl-v.
  5. Save the file in your preferred format. JPEG is the most universal.

On A Mac

  1. Find the right image. Make sure that your screen shows what you wish to take an image of.
  2. Capture the image and instantly save. You can capture the image so that it instantly saves to the desktop (usually as a PDF). There are a few methods which each produce slightly different results.[1]
    • Press Command-Shift-3 to capture the entire screen.
    • Press Command-Shift-4 to capture only a portion of the screen. A crosshair will appear, at which point you can point-click and drag select the portion of your screen which you want captured. It will save when you let go of the mouse. While you are dragging, you can press spacebar to drag the selected area somewhere else, shift to drag one edge at a time, or option to anchor the center and adjust outwards.
    • Press Command-Shift-4-Spacebar to capture just one window. After pressing Command-Shift-4, hit the spacebar and you will be allowed to click the window you want to capture. It does not need to be fully visible to be captured.
  3. Capture the image to the clipboard. Any one of the above commands can be made to transfer the image to the clipboard by adding the Control key. For example, Command-Control-Shift-3 will capture the entire screen to the clipboard. At this point the image can then be pasted into your image editing program of choice.

On Mobile Devices

  1. Take a screenshot on a Galaxy Tab 2. This done very simply by pressing down the power button and the volume down button at the same time and holding for 1 or 2 seconds. It saves to the same location as the rest of your pictures.
    • This same process works on an Android phone running version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above.
  2. Take a screenshot on an iPad. This done very simply by pressing down the home button (the square-looking button at the bottom) and the sleep-wake button (located along the edge, above the Apple logo on the back) at the same time and holding for 1 or 2 seconds. It saves to the same location as the rest of your pictures.
  3. Take a screenshot on an iPhone 4. This done very simply by pressing down the power or lock button and then the home button at the same time and holding for 1 or 2 seconds. It saves to the same location as the rest of your pictures.
  4. Take a screenshot on an iPhone 5. This done very simply by pressing down the power or lock button and then tapping the home button twice. It saves to the same location as the rest of your pictures.
  5. Take a screenshot on certain Samsung devices. Some newer devices like the Samsung Galaxy Edge series require you to almost "slap" your screen or swipe the side of your hand across the screen towards the left in order to take screenshots.



Tips

  • You can capture images from Youtube and other sites with the snipping tool.

Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#capturescreen

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