An infinite number of programs with which you can work on a computer, pleases and slightly scares inexperienced users. Here is what, for example, a screen or a screenshot? And this is just an ordinary screenshot of a computer screen.
It displays everything that we see on the screen of our monitors. Usually, when creating a screenshot of a screen, the photo is obtained without displaying the cursor, which was on the screen at the time of shooting. This is thought out and made very convenient. The cursor does not bother to view all the necessary elements, even the smallest. The monitor screen may contain text, small images or symbols, photographs and much more.
How to make a screen, you say? A digital image of the screen is obtained thanks to your operating system or other special program. Sometimes, when the user does not have the skills or ability to make a screen using the OS or a special program, he resorts to taking a picture using other equipment. Using a camera or camcorder. But why complicate the situation when there are easier ways to take a screenshot.
So, let's look at several options for how to make a screen?
The first is the easiest and most common - this is taking a photo of the screen through the operating system of your computer.
For this important and necessary process, a special key is provided on the computer keyboard, called “Print Screen”. You should close all unnecessary tabs on the screen of your monitor, leaving only what you need to fix on the photo. Make sure that no screenshot capture software is hanging open in the quick launch bar and is disabled. Then press the desired key on the keyboard. After that, open the standard Paint program and select “edit” and “paste” in the top menu. The image that you decide to shoot appears in the program in the edit field. We go to the "file" menu and click on the line "save as ...". There we write the name of the file, select the image format most suitable for you - bmp, jpeg, gif, png, the place where you want to save the finished file
And click on the "save" button. The file is ready. Now you can do whatever you want with it.
How to make a page screen using special programs?
Take, for example, the Snagit 7 utility (English version). To take a normal screenshot, you just need to run the program and click the “capture” button. At the same time, a visible cursor appears with a cross, with which you circle the area of the screen necessary for the picture to make a screen.
Immediately after selecting the part of the screen you need, a window automatically opens to save the image. Select the line “save as ...” in the “file” tab and click on it. In the window to save the object, select the place where you want to save the image, invent and enter a name for your picture and select a format.
Now you know how to take a screen shot of the monitor screen on your computer. The resulting image can be printed, sent via e-mail, skype, mail.ru to an agent, ICQ, or simply put this image on the main photo on social networks such as Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, and so on.
I will please you with the fact that a screenshot can be taken not only from an image or text, but also from a video. If you need one frame from the video sequence as an image, it is good in this case to use the BSPlayer program. Well, if you need to make a screen shot of a video in a video format such as avi or some other format, then the Snagit program of any version and not only it will help you with this.
Now you yourself can tell your friends about how to make a screen from a computer monitor if it is urgently needed. You have a small addition to your existing experience with computer hardware and other software that comes with it.