Capture screen images

How to Capture Screen Images

The main purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how I create the screen images I use in my tutorials.

Software Needed

• A Microsoft windows operating system post win 3.x (9x, ME, 2k, XP)
• Photoshop or your favorite image editor that has the ability to crop an image
  • I will be using Photoshop for this tutorial

Steps involved

• Get the image on your screen that you want to capture and press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard
• Open Photoshop and from the menu select file/new...
• Accept the defaults by clicking OK
• From the menu select Edit/paste
• Use the crop tool to crop the desired area see Fig 1.
  

  fig. 1 Crop Captured Screen Image
• From the menu select File/Save for Web
• Select the most efficient method of saving keep in mind the size of the image. I will often use gif with as few colors as possible.
• name your image something that make sense and is not too ambiguous

There you have it, it's pretty simple

Finished Captured Screen Image

Glossary

• ambiguous
• crop
• gif
• keyboard
• operating system
• Microsoft
• photoshop
• print screen
• windows