What do I need to take screen shots?

I need to take a screen shot on my computer but I don't know how to. Can someone explain what I need and how to do it please.

Thanks.

 

On your keyboard is a button that says "Print Scrn". Hit that button, and then go to photo editing software such as Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Adesign, Irfanview, or some such program. Go to Edit, and then hit Paste. This should put whatever is on your screen into your photo editing program. I think there is also a way to take screenshots of smaller windows, you can hit Ctrl while you hit PrintScrn, and see what that does. Experiment!
Hope this helps!
Eric

 

There's a post on this:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?t=26019

I haven't been able to get this to work. I use Irfanview in the process. I'm sure that I am doing something wrong though.......If you figure it out, help me out??

 

I can get it that far........how do you get into the reply on MG??

 

Thanks everybody. It all seems so easy.

I just realized that I have microsoft paint! I can't believe I went a year without realizing my windows xp came with such a program.

Thanks again.

 

First thing you have to do is check the file size of your image. MG won't take images over 100K in size. If yours is too large, you can either shrink it down or reduce the image quality to about 50% which should make a 1024x768 image small enough to send.

OR, if you're just wanting to send a screenshot of an open window, hit ALT + Print Screen to capture just the active window, which will be much smaller.

Then in the post entry screen, scroll down to the bottom of the page, hit the "Manage Attachments" button, then "Browse", find the image on your hard drive where you saved it, double click that file, then hit the "Upload" button. Wait until it's done uploading then hit the submit button for the post.

 

Sheez.......Thanks GT. I never looked down there, I always tried the icons on top. Thank you for that clarification....

 

i use a program called hoversnap.

 

Thanks for the info, GT. I haven't been on this site for awhile and only just now read your reply.

Now I will post many pictures.