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castle96

Often hear this term. What are they exactly (obviously a shot of what is on the screen...) but how do you do them? Where do you store them once done?

Abbafan1972

It really depends on what device you're using?

googler

On what device? 

Android phone will save screenshots to Gallery. I think, hold power key and one of the volume sliders at same time, certainly for phones I've used

iPad hold power and home buttons down together.

On a Windoze PC, pressing Print Screen or PrtScrn (top right of keyboard) saves what you can see onscreen to the Clipboard. It's up to you what you do from there - paste it into a photo editing program, paste it into a Word Doc or other app .....  Alt+PrtScrn will save only the active window, not your full screen.  To store them, either save from your photo editor as an image file, or save from whatever app you have pasted it into.

castle96

Sorry. On a PC. Have pressed Prt Sc/SysRq and nothing seen happening. Where is Clipbord? Should it open automatically?

flaneurs_lobster

Check the online help for whichever device the screen you wish to shoot is attached to. Pretty much every device has a different method of capturing the screen (key combinations for keyboarded devices, various for touchscreens). Most will copy the image to the clipboard (for pasting) and may offer to save them to local or cloud storage. 

Abbafan1972

On a PC (Windows 10), I use the snipping tool or Snip & Sketch as I think it's called, which can be found in accessories.

You can resize the box as to how much you want to share on the screen and then save it as a jpg image.  

This is what I've done below:-

RumRat

googler said:

On what device? 

Android phone will save screenshots to Gallery. I think, hold power key and one of the volume sliders at same time, certainly for phones I've used

iPad hold power and home buttons down together.

On a Windoze PC, pressing Print Screen or PrtScrn (top right of keyboard) saves what you can see onscreen to the Clipboard. It's up to you what you do from there - paste it into a photo editing program, paste it into a Word Doc or other app .....  Alt+PrtScrn will save only the active window, not your full screen.  To store them, either save from your photo editor as an image file, or save from whatever app you have pasted it into.

  Somebody still using that after all these years.....   Sorry, made me chuckle.....
 

castle96

where is accessories pl

GDB2222

What you actually want to do is hold the Alt key down at the same time as pressing the prt scrn button

That puts the screenshot into the clipboard. (You don't need to know where that is.)  Then you can paste it wherever you wish.

If you don't know where to paste it, click on the windows logo (probably bottom left of the screen) and type WORDPAD (and press enter). That will open Wordpad, so right click on that and select paste.

HTH 

googler

castle96 said:

Sorry. On a PC. Have pressed Prt Sc/SysRq and nothing seen happening. Where is Clipbord? Should it open automatically?

I wouldn't expect to see anything - you already have, on screen, whatever has been copied to the clipboard. 

It's the equivalent of a copy or cut command, before you do the paste. You don't see anything happen, but the copied or cut text simply gets stored for you to use later. 

Please read the whole of my post, which details what you can do once you have it in the clipboard.

googler

castle96 said:

where is accessories pl

That will depend on which version of Windoze you are using. 

Which is it?