If there is a need to quickly save a part of the screen as an image, then screenshots will come to the rescue or, in other words, screenshots. You can capture the entire screen, or only a part of it. There are both simple ways to take pictures and more complex ones. Our task is to figure out how to make a screen on a computer.
Instructions
Step 1
The easiest and most effective way to make a screen is to install the Lightshot program on your computer. Using any search engine, enter the query “download lightshot” there, find a site with this program in the results, download it.
Step 2
The installation of this program takes place in a standard mode and will not cause any difficulties. After installing it, you can make a screen using this program by pressing the “Print Screen” button on the keyboard. After that, the screen will darken slightly and you will be prompted to select the desired part of the screen.
Step 3
The selection always starts from the upper left corner, move the cursor over the intended upper left corner of the future screenshot and, holding the left mouse button, move the mouse down and to the right until you are happy with the picture.
Step 4
After that release the left mouse button, a menu with icons will appear at the bottom right. The rightmost - a cross, denotes the cancellation of the screenshot, the leftmost - a cloud icon and an arrow - upload the screenshot to the site and get a link to it. This link can be conveniently sent to friends so that they instantly see your screen.
Step 5
The floppy disk icon, second from the right side, means saving a screenshot to your computer. After clicking on it, you will be asked to specify the file name and save path, as is usually the case when saving files on a PC. Even more to the left is a button in the form of two sheets, which allows you to copy the image to the clipboard.
Step 6
Also in the Lightshot program there is a panel with which you can draw arrows, rectangles on the screenshot, write text, draw with a pencil. There is a function "share on social networks", "search for similar pictures in Google" and "print". That's probably all about Lightshot. This is the most convenient way to take screenshots on your computer.
Step 7
If you are not looking for easy ways and personal time is not expensive for you, then standard Windows tools are at your service. When no third-party programs are installed, pressing the Print Screen button will take a snapshot of the entire screen and automatically save it to the clipboard.
Step 8
Visually, nothing will change after clicking the button, you just need to open some program for working with images. The most standard one in Windows is Paint. To open it, click "Start", then "All Programs", then "Accessories", and finally, Paint.
Step 9
When the Paint program is launched, press the Ctrl + V key combination on the keyboard, and a screenshot of the screen will be pasted, now it must be saved to the computer. To do this, click "File", then the item "Save As". Specify the format, name and path where to save the file.
Step 10
Now you know how to make a screen in simple and not very ways, it's up to you which one to choose. This is already a matter of taste, but as time goes on, more and more people use Lightshot or its analogues.
