Windows or Microsoft Paint Program - maybe???

[Nelson Bradford]

I used to have - and used frequently - a program on my Windows 7 computer, where I'd simply it the PrtScn button which would capture the image on the monitor and I'd then click on the "Paint" (????) program and paste/crop/save as there.


Do any of you know where I'd find that program - or where I put the icon?

Thank you
-neb

[Shea Zellweger]

Start>All Programs> Accessories> Paint.
There's also a new program in Accessories called "Snipping tool." It lets you capture a portion of the screen, highlight, write, and otherwise alter it.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Start>All Programs> Accessories> Paint.
There's also a new program in Accessories called "Snipping tool." It lets you capture a portion of the screen, highlight, write, and otherwise alter it.

If you right click on the snipping tool (Vista/Win7), select "properties", then click in the short cut field you can assign a keyboard shortcut for activating the tool. I picked CTRL-F12 - unused anyway. That makes activating the tool fast without having to go through the menus.

[Nelson Bradford]

that's IT!
thank you VERY much - sent icon to desktop
-neb

[Gina Stevenson]

If someone doesn't have Vista/Win7, there's something that's worked rather well [have used it to capture screen shots for here, etc] ... JetScreenshot it's called. Actually think we found it at JetScreenshot.com [but might want to check with google to make sure of where it's found]. ;)

ETA: Yes, it's at http://www.jetscreenshot.com/

[Shea Zellweger]

If someone doesn't have Vista/Win7, there's something that's worked rather well [have used it to capture screen shots for here, etc] ... JetScreenshot it's called. Actually think we found it at JetScreenshot.com [but might want to check with google to make sure of where it's found]. ;)

ETA: Yes, it's at http://www.jetscreenshot.com/

Are you running a Mac? every Windows since 98 (at least) has had the Paint program, and the standard keyboard has a prt scrn button on it somewhere.

[Gina Stevenson]

No, no MAC here [hey, Shea, aren't they booga-$$$?]. Yes, I have Paint, but don't recall any Print Screen button. Maybe I missed it, since it's usually used to edit things (tho' sometimes it's frustrating, and wish it could do more), and had never even tho't of doing any "print screen" thing from it.

Actually, printing a portion of the screen, as opposed to the entire screen, I'm not sure re Paint ... not at all. I do know that JetScreenshot gives you borderlines with which you can outline exactly that portion you wish to save as a picture file.

[Shea Zellweger]

No, no MAC here [hey, Shea, aren't they booga-$$$?]. Yes, I have Paint, but don't recall any Print Screen button. Maybe I missed it, since it's usually used to edit things (tho' sometimes it's frustrating, and wish it could do more), and had never even tho't of doing any "print screen" thing from it.

Actually, printing a portion of the screen, as opposed to the entire screen, I'm not sure re Paint ... not at all. I do know that JetScreenshot gives you borderlines with which you can outline exactly that portion you wish to save as a picture file.

your prt scrn button is going to be different places depending on your computer. Sometimes it's in that cluster just above your d-pad (arrows), sometimes it's in one of the clusters on the F-line. if you're using a laptop, it's probably an fn function of one of your keys.

[Gina Stevenson]

OK, tho't you were saying that Paint itself had something click on that said "print screen." AND, when we do not want the entire screen, and want to choose that portion of the screen that we save, this JetScreenshot that lets you decide ... well, ah lahks that! ;)

[Billie Goodson]

Alt +PrintScreen will capture the active window instead of the entire screen.

[Gina Stevenson]

Alt +PrintScreen will capture the active window instead of the entire screen.

OK, but even then one might want to encircle just a certain portion. ;)

(and, no, I don't get anything from JetScreenshot for lauding its virtues ;))

[Shea Zellweger]

OK, but even then one might want to encircle just a certain portion. ;)

(and, no, I don't get anything from JetScreenshot for lauding its virtues ;))

yeah... you can use paint to clip out a certain spot. I'm not knocking JetScreenshot... it sounds pretty much identical to the "snipping tool" present in the later Windows OSs, but it seems rather redundant in its function, as one could do anything it can do with prt scrn and paint.

[Dana Grant]

If you right click on the snipping tool (Vista/Win7), select "properties", then click in the short cut field you can assign a keyboard shortcut for activating the tool. I picked CTRL-F12 - unused anyway. That makes activating the tool fast without having to go through the menus.

THAT IS SO COOL!!! I did it!!! I hadn't even heard about the snipping tool. Thanks, guys!!!

[Gina Stevenson]

Shea, in Paint you have to find some file first, so you'd have to save the whole screen to a file, then pull it over into Paint, and then clip & resave a portion of it. With this, you can just outline what you want from screen with no previous file, save that, and you've cut out a couple of steps of having to first have a file to pull into Paint and then make another file of the clipping. ;)

So, not really redundant. Time saver! ;)

[Shea Zellweger]

Shea, in Paint you have to find some file first, so you'd have to save the whole screen to a file, then pull it over into Paint, and then clip & resave a portion of it.

Nope. The Print Screen function doesn't save to a file, it saves to your clipboard. You just open up Paint (which probably takes about as long as opening JSS) and hit "paste." The cropping takes just as long regardless of the program you use. Time wise, it's pretty much a wash.

[Gina Stevenson]

I know print screen won't save it to a file, but if you want a portion only of that screen, you have to then save that clipboard screen to a file. OK, maybe paragraphs don't make my point plain, so I'll try the old 1, 2, 3:

You want a portion of the screen as a picture to post, so you (thinking paint now):

(1) Save screen to clipboard
(2) Save clipboard screen capture to file
(3) Open Paint, then
(4) Open screen capture file into Paint
(5) Edit in Paint
(6) Save edited portion/clip to file
(7) Pull this edited file over to post on NN

OK, with JetScreenshot [which is open @ bottom of screen already]:

(1) Click on JetScreenshot, which gives you margins for clipping
(2) Encircle the portion of screen you want to post/for a file
(3) "Save" that portion of screen you want in clip to a file
(4) Pull this edited file over to post on NN

How's that? A few less steps. ;)