3. What is a Screen Shot
• No matter what is showing on your screen, (For example you
may be in Word or on a particular Web site) you can take an
instant screen shot and then take out area(s) and use these to
suit specific purposes
• A common screen shot (taking photo of screen) use is to take
screen shots and use them to make up a tutorial. You may also
like to instantly capture:
– The whole screen
– Part of the screen (i.e. You can extract any image within that screen)
4. Here is
screen shot
of the
previous
slide.
Note: You
can see
everything
that was on
the screen
5. Here we
have taken
out
sections of
that screen
shot
How is this achieved?
6. To take screen shot:
Look on the keyboard
for a key called –
Print Screen
Simply press this key.
On a Laptop you may
have to press a
function key at the
same time you press
Print Screen. Some
keys have a dual
function
7. Once you have pressed the Print Screen key nothing appears to happen.
However, the computer has taken a snapshot image of the screen and put it
on an electronic clipboard.
You can now go into any programme e.g. Word or PowerPoint and press
Paste
The screen shot will now be pasted into your
Word Page or PowerPoint
8. Here we can see a screen shot in Word
You now use the Crop Button to crop out
the bits you do not want to use.
9. Here we can see a screen shot in Word
Here we have used the Crop Button to
crop out the bits you do not want to use.
10. Here we can see a screen shot in Word
Left mouse click Here we have used the Crop Button to
mouse and move in on crop out the bits you do not want to use.
the picture
11. To get more control over the cropping process we suggest that you take your
screen shot and then paste it in Paint
Or
12. In the Paint programme:
Go to Edit, Paste (after you
have pressed Print Screen
Key
13. Here is an screen shot image that has
been pasted in Paint
14. We just want to take out the image of
the house so we use the Select
button.
Click on the Select Button. Select the
part of the screen shot you want to Select
button
use and then go to Edit, Copy
See next slide
15. The house has been
selected
Tip: Start at the above Select
left of the picture and button
drag diagonally to the
right
