How to take screen capture or screenshots in windows and mac?

Take screen shots or screen capture in windows and mac

3   SIMPLE WAYS  METHODS FOR SCREEN CAPTURE

PRINT SCREEN METHOD:-

FULL SCREENSHOT:

1. Press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.

The "Print Screen" button may be labeled "Prt Sc", "Prnt Scrn", "Print Scrn", or similar. On most keyboards, the button is usually found next to the "F12" and "Scroll Lock" keys. On laptop keyboards, you may have to press the "Fn" or "Function" key to access "Print Screen".

ONE WINDOW SCREENSHOT:-

If you want to take a screenshot of just one window, make sure that the window is the "active" window on your screen. This means that it should be in front of all your other windows. Then, hold down the "Alt" key and press "Print Screen".

HOW TO PASTE SCREENSHOT:-

1. Open paint,to open paint click start-->All programs-->Acessories-->MSpaint.

2.Click the "Select" tool along the top bar and choose "Rectangular Select" in Paint. Right-click on the canvas and select "Paste". Your screenshot will be pasted onto the canvas.

• You can also paste the screenshot directly into a word document or an email by right-clicking the page that you are composing and selecting "Paste."
• You can also hold down "Ctrl" and press "V" to paste.
• On Windows XP and earlier, you can open the "Edit" menu and select "Paste" to paste.

3.Save the file or screenshot by clicking save.

SNIPPING TOOL METHOD

Snipping tool  is already present in all the windows version of vista and windows 7.

"The Snipping tool method works with all Windows Vista editions except Starter and Home Basic, and with Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate. For other versions of Windows, use the Print Screen method detailed above"

1.How to open snipping tool?

               Start -->All programs-->Acessories-->snipping tool.

The Snipping Tool is only found in Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, and in all Windows Vista versions except Starter and Home Basic. If you don't have the snipping tool, use the Print Screen method instead.

2.Choose the kind of screenshot (snip) you would like to take. "Rectangular Snip" is chosen by default.

• "Free-form Snip" lets you draw an area of any shape. Only the area you drew will be snipped.
• "Rectangular Snip" lets you select a rectangular area, which will be snipped.
• "Window Snip" lets you choose a window to snip.
• "Full-screen Snip" snips the whole screen, with all windows (except the Snipping Tool window) included.

3.In selected area screenshot you must want select the area you want to snip,Just drag cursor(sisor),where you want to snip.

4.Save the screenshot by click the save button.

HOW TO MAKE SCREENSHOT IN MAC?

1. To capture the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
2. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.
3. To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
4. To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
5. Add Control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.
6. Another method for capturing screen shots in Mac OS X is by using the bundled Apple utility, Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder. Grab is useful if you need to include a cursor or a menu in your screen shot, or if you want to save your screen shot to TIFF format. To include a cursor, first go to Grab Preferences and select the cursor icon you wish to have in your screen shot. To capture the screen with Grab, run Grab, then choose of the capture modes from the "Capture" menu: Selection, Window, Screen, Timed Screen.
7. When you choose the Selection mode in Grab, you can capture a specific region of the screen by dragging around it. Grab will display a tooltip showing the size of the region you have selected and the screen shot will open in a window when you release the mouse button. The cursor will not be included.
8. When you choose the Window mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to select the window you wish to capture, then click the "Choose Window" button. When you click the button, the instructions will disappear and the window you click ill be captured, including the mouse cursor at the position where you click (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
9. When you choose the Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to click the screen when you are ready to capture. The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot at the position where you click (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
10. When you choose the Timed Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear, allowing you to prepare your screen for capture. When you are ready, press the "Start Timer" button and you will have ten seconds before the screen is captured. This allows you to open menus and sub-menus, if necessary. After ten seconds the entire screen will be captured. The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot if a cursor was selected in Preferences.