Very often on the network you have to read in response to the question of how to take a screenshot, advice "download the program" this or that. However, the computer already has everything that is needed for this purpose, even a separate button on the keyboard.
Instructions
Step 1
First, about the button: on the key, which is responsible for "photographing" the screen in the computer's memory, it says "Print Screen", sometimes abbreviated - "Prt Scr". It is usually found in the topmost row, above the arrow buttons.
Step 2
Pressing this button does not cause any visual or sound effects, the system quietly and unobtrusively puts the picture from the monitor screen into the RAM. There it will be until you give the "Paste" command. Moreover, the system absolutely does not care where exactly you want to insert the image. It can be a standard paint editor or advanced Photoshop, a Word text editor or an Excel spreadsheet editor. And after inserting, you can do everything with the picture that the used program allows. The most elementary thing you can do with it is just save it. For example, follow the entire procedure, for example, with a text editor Microsoft Word 2007.
Step 3
Step 1: to copy the appearance of the screen, press the "Print Screen" key; Step 2: open the text editor Word and create a new document, for example, by pressing the Ctrl key and without releasing it, the "N" key; Step 3: to paste the copied screen image, press the Ctrl key and, without releasing it, the "C" key; Action 4: this is not necessary, but if you do not like the fact that a huge picture protrudes beyond the borders of the document, it is better to reduce it by about a third. And it still doesn't hurt to add a title. The result in Word 2007 will look like this:
Step 4
Now all you have to do is save your work. The Word text editor will save it as a text document. If we need a file in the image format (gif, jpeg, png, bmp), then it is better to paste the copied button "Print Screen" into any graphics editor. For example, you can repeat the entire procedure in relation to the graphics editor Photoshop: Step 1: copy the appearance of the screen by pressing the "Print Screen" key; Step 2: open the graphics editor Photoshop and create a new document (and here it is also the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + N); Action 3: paste the copied by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C; Step 4: here, too, you can reduce the size of the image by a third, and then save it in.
