Screenshot
How do I take a screenshot?
Don’t know how to take a screenshot? No worries, we give all what you need to take pictures of your screen (screenshots) on your PC(Windows) or Mac.
Screenshot Windows 8 (fn-button)
- Press all the following buttons down at the same time. FN + Windows(Win logo) + PRTSC. Note that on some keyboards the printscreen button is marked as “Print SCRN”
- Now you will have a screenshot saved to your computer. You will find the screenshot from “This PC / Picture / Screenshots”.
Key combination to take a screenshot(Windows 8). FN-button exist.
Screenshot Windows 8
- Press all the following buttons down at the same time. Windows(Win logo) + Print screen. Note that on some keyboards the printscreen button is marked as “Print SCRN”
- Now you will have a screenshot saved to your computer. You will find the screenshot from “This PC / Picture / Screenshots”.
Key combination to take a screenshot(Windows 8).
Screenshot Windows Vista, Windows 7 ja Windows 8 computers, a snipping tool.
A snipping tool is included in Windows Vista and in later versions Windows 7 and Windows 8. A snipping tool is fast, easy and convenient method to capture a screenshot and save it straight to desktop.
If you are using Windows 8, just move mouse cursor to the top right corner and select ‘search’ from the menu. This is the magnifying class icon. Type in ‘snipping tool’ and select it from search results.
The easiest way to find the snipping tool is to use search.
Snipping tool window appears to the screen. Select ‘New’.
A Snipping tool window. Select ‘New’ to capture a screenshot.
Now just crop the area from the screen by clicking left mouse button down and dragging then cursor around the screen. Release the mouse button when red rectangle is on the area which you like to be saved as a screenshot.
Select the area that interests you.
The area you selected will appear to snipping tool window. Now click the button where is blue disc icon as shown in the picture below. At this point you can still choose file format and the place where to store the screenshot file. File types for example png and jpg are the most common file types and can be read basically on all different kind of computers as well as on all mobile devices. Make sure you know where you save the screenshot file. We can recommend you to save the file to desktop and name it to describe the picture.
Save the screenshot straight to desktop.
Screenshot Mac
These screenshots are saved as files on your desktop. No need to download any extra software from internet.
- Press CMD(⌘) + Shift(⇧) + 3 buttons down at the same time.
- You can find a screenshot file on your desktop.
Press key combination shown above to capture screen as a image file on your desktop.
How do I take a screenshot only from certain area of the screen. Press CMD(⌘) + Shift(⇧) + 4 at the same time. Select the area and it’s done. You will find a screenshot file saved on your desktop.
CMD(⌘) + Shift(⇧) + 4
