How many times have you wanted to make a screen-capture of your monitor and wondered… how can I?
Such a thing is of immense usage for desktop support, or documentation or even archival purposes.
Here is how to do it easily in OS X with three simple keystrokes:
- Simultaneously press down APPLE+SHIFT+3 … you will hear a nice camera click… whatever you can see on your desktop will be saved as an image file on your desktop. Usually, the file is called Picture 1 etc.
- Simultaenously press down APPLE+SHIFT+4 … and you will see a tiny cross hair which you can drag and click over the area you want to capture. If you press the SPACEBAR, you will see a camera icon which will allow you to take a snapshot of a particular window. Same as before the image file will be on your desktop.
On the PC front, you can hit the print screen key on your keyboard. Next, open a graphics editor such as Microsoft Paint [usually found in Start/Programs/Accessories] and press paste to create the image which you can save anywhere.
