Need To Do A Screen Shot?, Here's how Options

[Rebecca Beasley]

This is something I learned several years ago and
would like to pass on for anyone who needs to send
a screen shot, for instance..you have an error that
you want to show someone, or you're seeing something
on their site that they're not seeing.

Send them a shot of your screen.

Just press the print screen button on your keyboard
This puts what you see on your screen on your clipboard.

Now open up start/programs/accessories/paint

After you open your paint program, just hit ctrl v to paste.

Now save the screen shot as filename.gif or jpg (bmp is too large)

Now you can send it via messenger or e-mail by clicking on the send file
or browse button and send the picture to them.

[nujams]

Firefox has a great screen capture add-on, i also have snagit which will do screen videos too

I agree the 2 best open source programs are getpaint.net (which more of a draw program and Gimp ( which is more of an image manipulation program) Use the 2 together and you can do just about anything Photoshop can do. They both have great forums, lessons and mods.

I also use eDraw, it has some of the neatest lighting effects you can't find anywhere else but it's not free.