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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Rosinish on Tuesday 19 May 20 20:38 BST (UK)
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Hi Folks,
Can someone please tell me the easiest way to do this in simple terms?
I've done it before a few times but don't know how I eventually managed!
They don't show on my screen with the usual instructions although they opened in 'Snip & Sketch' originally (I think) - & I don't know how to save/retrieve with a name.
I use Paint to open pics.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Annie
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Open Paint.
Go to the screen you want to take a screenshot of, press the PrintScreen button - might be PrtScr on a laptop.
Go back to Paint, open a new image and right click and paste.
This will paste in what you copied.
Then you will be able to crop it within Paint to remove bits you do not want.
Then using 'Menu' and 'save as', you can save it to your computer, calling it whatever you want and choosing what format you want - png, bmp, jpeg etc..
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Thanks Dubliner,
I followed your instructions, made a wee bit of progress except...when I right clicked & pasted, I had text I'd copied & pasted 3 hrs earlier! ;D
It's a screenshot of a newspaper article I'm trying to copy.
Do you have another example I could try please?
I'm prepared to try it with any way of copying it, it doesn't have to be with paint but I'd need instructions on how to open anything else.
I've never been able to master W10 (an XP & Vista user) prior.
Annie
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You may find it easier to use the snipping tool built into Win10, it's on your start menu under Windows accessories.
When you open the tool click on 'New' on the top left of that window. The screen goes semi-transparent and you use your mouse to draw a box around what you want to clip whilst holding the left button down. As soon as you release the left button a new box appears showing your clip. You then left-click on 'Save as' on the top left using whatever name & save location you wish.
Michael.
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Annie, if you are using 'snip & sketch' it's basically the same thing - click on 'New' in the top left of that window etc.
Michael.
Added - the 'save as' icon is the floppy disk symbol at the top right of the window -it's the left hand of the group of three on my computer. Or you can use 'control + S'.
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Ctrl + PrintScreen will get you an image of the whole screen (should be the same result as using PrintScreen on its own).
Alt + PrintScreen will get you an image of the currently active window.
Then paste into Paint or wherever you want the image.
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The old fashioned way to use the Print Screen function was to hold down the Shift Button at the same time as you pressed Prnt Scrn button. If your keyboard has 2 different functions printed on the PrntScrn button then if that is the upper half of the button and can only be accessed using the Shift Button. This is nothing to do with Windows 10, it's to do with your computer's keyboard layout.
When you Prnt Scrn you are not printing anything, that's from the early days of computing and it just means COPY everything showing on the screen at the time of pressing the buttons and Store it in the CLIPBOARD until you put it somewhere else by Control V or Paste, you can Paste in Excel worksheets, Wordpages or a Picture program such as Paint.
The CLIPBOARD is an area of Memory used by the computer to store COPIED material until you Delete it or Replace it with another Copy of something. Advanced clipboard use can hold a list of items but the basic is just one item and it's on the basis of last in first out.
If your Print Screen button is single function you do not need to use the Shift Button but even if you do it won't affect the result, you'll still Copy the Screen. Then choose where to Paste it.
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Try this, it's simpler ... place your cursor on the image to be copied and Right-Click and the Menu may offer you the Option to Copy Image .. if so, select it and that is you COPYING it to your Clipboard which then let's you PASTE it wherever you wish.
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Thanks for all your suggestions, it's much appreciated but nothing is working, I'm a complete novice with regard to this particular laptop i.e. W10...
When I referred to using Paint = I open my images in Paint
Can I just emphasise, the few times I managed to copy an image, I have no clue as to how I did it as I was trying any/everything from reading online through frustration i.e. when it happened I immediately forgot how I did it.
The 'old way' etc. means nothing as I've never used any way ;D
I'm sure I recall they did open in something different to Paint & Snip & Sketch comes to my mind although I'm not fussed how it appears as I can't get a copy at all no matter what.
Do I have to close all other windows in order to snapshot the particular window I want a copy of?
"Ctrl + PrintScreen will get you an image of the whole screen (should be the same result as using PrintScreen on its own).
Alt + PrintScreen will get you an image of the currently active window.
Then paste into Paint or wherever you want the image."
When I opened Paint then paste it didn't work, I then tried Paint 3D & it pasted text, that of which I'd just recently copied & pasted i.e. not the image I want.
To find anything I have to type it in the search box & open from there.
I'm not using a mouse & the button has on it END & underneath is PRTSC
"place your cursor on the image to be copied and Right-Click and the Menu may offer you the Option to Copy Image .. if so, select it and that is you COPYING it to your Clipboard which then let's you PASTE it wherever you wish"
The image cannot be copied it can only be downloaded, it's from FindMyPast
Annie
ADD...I have no idea as to why the huge gap in the middle as it was all close together when I sent it
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1. Get Paint running but minimise it so it is not in the way of anything or at least drag it out the way so you can see what it is you want to copy.
2. Get the image of the newspaper to the forefront of the screen - i.e. there's nothing overlaying it, it has "focus" meaning it is the active window.
3. Hold Alt and press PrintScreen briefly. Nothing will appear to have happened.
4. Switch to Paint. Paste into Paint using Edit/Paste or Ctrl-V or whatever.
5. Then use "Save" in Paint to keep the image.
If you are using Firefox to view the newspaper article, there is a screen-capture built-in. Just right-click over the article and select "Take a Screenshot", use the mouse to highlight the bit you want (it will take a guess at what it is you are trying to capture so just keep moving the mouse around until the right bit is selected, or you can select the whole screen). Then you can Copy to the clipboard and paste into Paint, or Download which lets you save to the Desktop or local drive.
Taking a snapshot of the screen and then starting up Paint might flush the clipboard so always have Paint running in the background before you attempt to copy the screen or active window.
If you're really stuck, tell us where the article is and no doubt someone will get an image of it sent to you. :)
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My Windows 10 PC
I press and hold the Windows key then press Print Screen
I open the App I want
Then press Ctrl and V (works with Photos, Word and Photoshop)
I have reduced the file size of the image due to file limits on this forum
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Thanks folks all appreciated,
I've tried everything stated to no avail...it's a pity they don't have a snip tool on their page.
Annie
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What's wrong with the standard snipper tool? I keep it on my task bar along with the calculator and the character map so that they're always handy. I snip a newspaper article with the snipper [with a little bit of extra at the top] and save it under an appropriate name. Then I open the saved file with Paint and write the name and date of the newspaper in that extra space.
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Have you tried pressing the
Windows Logo Key + Shift + S
You should get the drop down menu for Snip and the mouse cursor should change to Crosshair
Make the selection and it is save to the clipboard
The advice I gave you earlier should also work
Windows Logo key + Print Screen
This will copy the whole screen to Clipboard but should also put it in the Pictures folder inside the Screenshots folder/album
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if you have a mobile phone, turn off automatic Flash and take a picture of the screen, then Send /Share that by email, bluetooth or wi-fi or USB cable to your laptop.
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Try a tutorial such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeOglvucFK4 to see if that helps you use the Snipping Tool.
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Because laptop keyboards are smaller, they often have keys which have more than one purpose.
The keyboard on the only Toshiba I have handy has "PrtSc" as being Shift with "SysReq".
You will also find a key marked "Fn", which acts like Shift, Alt and Ctrl, modifying the action of other buttons.
The Toshiba has the Fn text in a different colour, and the associated function on other buttons in the matching colour. Thus , the "3" button produces a digit when used alone, "£" when used with Shift, and VolumeDown when used with Fn.
On the HP I am using right now, "PrtSc" is on the same button as "Insert". I need to press Fn to use the PrtSc action. Thus, to copy just the current window to the clipboard, I need Fn+Alt+SysReq, which on a full size keyboard would be Alt+PrtSc.
Each brand made their own decisions about where these odds and ends go, and sometimes they changed their minds when going from one model to another.
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Hi folks & thanks,
I have tried absolutely everything to no avail.
I then decided to try the same from a jpg & a word doc. already on my laptop, the snapshots of both were fine however, I can't get a screenshot from anything I view online?
Not sure where from here but it seems my 'reasonably priced' laptop may actually be a reject :-\
A reminder to all, new to W10 i.e. anything added which wasn't on XP or Vista is unknown to me & alien :D
Annie
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if you have a mobile phone, turn off automatic Flash and take a picture of the screen, then Send /Share that by email, bluetooth or wi-fi or USB cable to your laptop.
Unfortunately I don't have a mobile phone.
Annie
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The CEX Gadgets Exchange shop in Irvine Mall has a UK national Online Ordering Service. For £25 you can get a S/Hand or Refurbished Samsung Galaxy Ace mobile phone on ~ANY network. Even if you don't use it as a phone it has an excellent Camera. Easy to use, basically Aim, Hold Steady and CLICK and you will have a High Resolution Quality Image / Photo. From the Camera-Phone you can Send /Share the Photos with other mobile phones and Computers of any kind by several methods, all Easy to do after a little tuition. You can transfer the photos using built in methods such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth which are low powered short distance Radio transmissions but you can also send them by attachments to emails, or by connecting a cable from the phone to the computer. If you just use it as a camera you don't need a SIM card or a Network so it costs you nothing. I've got several that I use just for the Photos and Videos as they are superior to those taken by my 30 year old Canon Camera.
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In the Windows Start Menu click Windows Accessories
Scroll down to find the Snipping Tool. Right click, and select More, then Pin to Taskbar.
Now you should have the Snipping Tool on the taskbar whenever you need to use it.
Open your article in FindMyPast. If you want rid of the highlights, click on Search Terms above the article.
Zoom to the required size.
Now click on Snipping Tool and select New
The screen will go opaque. Place the cross at the top corner of your article and
draw a box round the part you want. Then in the Snipping Tool File menu, click Save as.
Choose where to save the file.
Replace the Filename "Capture.jpg" with the name of your choice. (perhaps the name of the newspaper the article is from). File type should be .jpg
Click Save.
The file should now be available for you to open in Paint or with any other imaging program.
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In the Windows Start Menu click Windows Accessories
Thanks Isabel but...I do not see 'Windows Accessories' after clicking the '\windows Start Menu'
Annie
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Another way
Press and hold the Windows Logo key, then press R
A box will open, type in
Snip
and press return and you should then get the Snip toolbar.
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Wrong thread :-X
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Another way
Press and hold the Windows Logo key, then press R
A box will open, type in
Snip
and press return and you should then get the Snip toolbar.
Done as said...message, windows cannot find snip...
Annie
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Press the Windows logo and then type Snipping . It should come up at the top of the list. Just click on it and do what Isabel has said:
Pin to Taskbar.
Now you should have the Snipping Tool on the taskbar whenever you need to use it.
Open your article in FindMyPast. If you want rid of the highlights, click on Search Terms above the article.
Zoom to the required size.
Now click on Snipping Tool and select New
The screen will go opaque. Place the cross at the top corner of your article and
draw a box round the part you want. Then in the Snipping Tool File menu, click Save as.
Choose where to save the file.
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Hello,
I wonder if it has been moved. I just tried clicking on the snipping tool, on my new windows 10 laptop, and this message popped up.
In a future update snipping tool will be moving to a new home. Try improved Windows Logo key and Shift + S.
Cheers
KHP
Added: I now see it under the "S" in the menu as Snip and Sketch.
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It's still there for me. I've not moved to the 'newer' version and my OS is up to date.
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Pressing Windows Logo+ shift + S give a darkened screen and a selection bar at the top with various choices - select the snip.
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Pressing Windows Logo+ shift + S give a darkened screen and a selection bar at the top with various choices - select the snip.
I gave this very advice a week ago.
I am now of the opinion that the Op’s best course of action is taking an image of the screen with their mobile phone and using said image.
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It's always worth trying again in case something was missed.
If it's a newspaper article from such as the FindMyPast/BNA collection, I've found that a far better way to obtaining a copy is just to download the whole page and then zoom to the article itself. I usually then snip the relevant article but it's not necessary.
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You must be finding this very frustrating. Try this solution I found online.
Press the Win Key+R together to bring up the Run box.
Enter:
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
(You can copy and paste it in)
That should take you to the Programs folder, where Windows Accessories ought to be. Right click on that, and select Pin to Start, which should place it as a tile on the start menu.