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

How to Capture Screen Images

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

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