Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you
how to take a screenshot on your laptop or desktop Windows PC computer,
and I'll show you two ways to do this. The first is with Snipping Tool or Snip and Sketch,
it just depends on what you have on your computer, and then I'll also show you
the older way of doing it, which is using Print Screen. All right, let's get started.
Okay, so first you'll want to open your Snipping Tool or Snip and Sketch. So I'm going to come
right down here to the search, I'm going to type "snip". Now, you can also hold the Windows
logo key, Shift, and S all at the same time, and it'll work the same way. Here's the Snipping Tool,
so I'm going to double-click this, and then I've got some different modes here. The most useful in
my opinion is the rectangular snip, so if we use this and we draw a box around whatever we want to
take a screenshot of, it'll automatically bring us to this screen. Then we can add text if we want,
we can choose a pen color and just draw a circle around something, we can also use a highlighter
and maybe just highlight part of it. And then if you don't like what you did, you can always erase,
so we can just erase what we did here. And then to save it, I'll click "Save Snip" right here,
and it'll ask me where I want to put it. Um, I think I'll just put it on the desktop,
so I'll choose that over here and I'll save, and this is going to save as a PNG file. PNG
usually works just fine, but you can also save as a JPEG file.
Those are the two I would use. We'll save, and here is the little capture right here.
The next most useful in my opinion is the full-screen snip, so if you choose this, it'll
just automatically take an image of your entire screen, and then you can come up here to save
and then save it to your desktop or wherever you want. The other two modes I hardly ever
use, but the first one is Freeform Snip and you can just draw whatever shape you want and it
will take a snip of that, which seems kind of weird to me. You can also choose Window Snip,
and then you can just select the window you want to capture and it will do that.
All right, now the second way to do this is the old-school way, using Print Screen. So to do this,
you can just hit the "PrtSc" button that's up next to your F keys, probably. So I'm going to click
that, and what that does is just makes a copy, so now we'll have to go into Paint. I'll open that up
and then paste with CTRL+V, and now we have our entire screen
in Paint. Then we can save it wherever we want, so I'm going to call this one "Capture Two",
and we'll save that, and we can X out. Now, you can also paste this into Word documents,
emails, PowerPoints, and that kind of thing, but if you just want an image,
you'll need to open up Paint and save it as an image. So those are the two ways I was talking
about to screenshot parts of your screen, but what if you want to do an entire web page?
Let's go out here to Walmart.com, and you can see that this is a really long web page.
Now, you could use the previous two methods to kind of piece this thing together after taking
several screenshots, but there's a nice Google Chrome extension that will do it all for you. So,
to get that extension, come up here to the three little dots at the top of your screen, go to More
Tools, and then Extensions. Then come over here to the hamburger menu and then choose Extensions, and
then come all the way down here to open Chrome Web Store. The one we want is called 'Go Full Page',
so I'll just put that in here and it's this first one. So, I'll click it, I'll choose
'Add to Chrome', and then 'Add Extension', and then I'll get out of this. Now, I'll come up
here to the little puzzle piece and then I'll click on this pushpin to add it right here.
Now, I'll go back to Walmart.com, and then I'll click on the little icon it just made,
and now what it's doing is it's taking screenshots of the entire page and then piecing them together.
So, here is the entire long Walmart.com homepage, and now we have some options. We can save this as
a PDF. I usually just save it as a PNG because that works fine for me, so I'll do that.
I'm going to choose 'Allow', and then it puts it right down here at the corner of my screen.
I'll click on this caret and choose 'Show in Folder', and this will take me to my downloads,
so I can double-click this to open it in my photos. Then we can use CTRL + and CTRL - to zoom
in or zoom out and take a look at the whole thing. All right, if you like this video and you want to
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