How to take a screenshot (Windows/Mac/Linux)

[Halo007]

I have seen one to many of this particular question.

So I made a guide.

1. First, when you have the image in front of you, hit Print Screen (prt scr) located to the right of F12.

2. Open up any version of paint and hit Ctrl+V then go into file, save as either a jepg, jpg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff or a swf, name as you please and exit the program as you wish.

3. Open up a image hoster such as http://imageshack.us/ (Note: can only allowed to open either a jepg, jpg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff or a swf images)

4. Copy and paste one of the URLS into your address bar, and copy and paste the image as you please!

Hope this cleared some of your questions up for you!


Visual Aid Guide:
[b]For Step 2, paint can be found by going to Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> Paint.

I will use a simple game for this. It's chicken Jockey.

Step One > Hit Prnt Scrn on the Page it's on. This will allow the page to be saved and able to be copy and pasted.

Step Two > Open Paint or any other art program. Paint is reccommended because it is easy. Photoshop is more "Start from scratch."

Step Three > Hit control + v on the new paint window. The Screenshot should appear there. Like this:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1247/ss7pi.th.png (http://img376.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss7pi.png)

Step Four > Since you don't want the screenshot to be oversized, you want to use the tool shown below with paint to get the part of the image out.
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/2097/ss3nm.png

Step Five > Cut out the part of the image that you want, at the end your product should look like this:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8483/ss3qg.png

Hoped you liked it.

[Nmajmani]

I've seen a few questions for making a screenshot on a mac, so I decided to make one especially for mac users.

First off, go to the screen where the image you want to post is. Press and hold <command>(apple key next to spacebar)-<shift>-<3>.
This should yield an image similar to this on your desktop.

http://povuser.ajmani-multimedia.com/Xgen_Studios/Motherload_Images/Screenshot_tutorial/step_1.jpg

Find and open the file.

http://povuser.ajmani-multimedia.com/Xgen_Studios/Motherload_Images/Screenshot_tutorial/step_2.jpg

It should open in preview. Hold and drag your mouse to create a rectangle around the portion you wish to keep, like this:

http://povuser.ajmani-multimedia.com/Xgen_Studios/Motherload_Images/Screenshot_tutorial/step_3.jpg

Go to tools->Crop and the portion in your rectangle will remain.

http://povuser.ajmani-multimedia.com/Xgen_Studios/Motherload_Images/Screenshot_tutorial/step_5.jpg

Upload this to your image-hoster or personal webspace and post it here.

Some of you who have tried to take a screenshot of a menu or inventory in games like motherload may have realized that pressing <command> will close your inventory screen. An easy way around this is to open another application like address book, and position on the side. While this app is in focus, you can take a screenshot of an inventory screen without it closing. Because the app is off to the side, it will be removed in the crop process.

[Justin]

What the heck, may as well complete the trio. Here is the "how to take a screenshot on Linux" part. Well, specifically Ubuntu/Gnome. Anyway.

1. Bring of whatever you want to take a shot of, and press the "Print Screen" (or PrtScn) Button. Alternatively you can enter the command "gnome-screenshot" at the command line and specify a delay time.

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/7946/screenshotyd9.png

2. A box will pop up with a thumbnail of your screenshot asking you for a file name and save location. It will default to "screenshot.png" on your desktop. Hit Save.

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/3368/screenshot2er7.png

3. Open the file up in GNUPaint or GIMP or whatever you use to edit images, and crop the relevant portion and save.

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/6168/screenshot3qz5.png

http://i10.tinypic.com/4loj6o7.jpg

That's it.