A screenshot, or screenshot, is an image on a monitor taken by a computer and displayed to the user on the screen. Usually a screenshot is taken by the operating system at the command of the user.
Digital technologies are ingrained in our lives forever. Live communication over evening tea was replaced by social networks and forums. Sometimes a situation arises when your virtual interlocutor needs to send a screenshot from the computer (screenshot). The easiest way to take a screenshot is to press the Print Screen button on the keyboard. The computer will save the image that is currently displayed on the monitor. The snapshot will be saved to the clipboard, where the temporarily copied information is located. The screenshot can be transferred from the clipboard to any folder on your computer or to another recording device. To do this, after you have taken a screenshot, open the Paint program, which is located in the Start menu and is indicated by an icon in the form of a brush and a paint palette. In the "edit" tab, select the "paste" function. From the clipboard, the snapshot is transferred to the Paint workspace. Screenshots can also be saved via Photoshop. This is somewhat more difficult than using Paint, but it has its advantages, for example, pictures can be edited. In order to save a screenshot through Photoshop, open this program, press Print Screen on the keyboard and paste the file from the clipboard. These methods of saving information are suitable for the operating system from Microsoft. However, not everyone prefers to work with it, there are fans of the Linux operating system. To save a snapshot in Linux, also press the Print Screen key and in the dialog box that appears, select the path where you would like to save the file. The good thing about this system is that you will not forget to save the screenshot, and it will not disappear. On Apple computers, taking screenshots is also easy. To save a screenshot in Mac OS X, use the Screenshot Plus widget, it is convenient for any user and can take all kinds of screenshots.