Feb 25 2008
How to Make a Screenshot for your Blog (PC Version):
An enquiry arrived this morning:
How do I get a screenshot? I’ve tried to copy and paste the page, but it’s got video graphics on it so that won’t work. Is there a trick I need to know?
Fortunately “all you need to know” is not actually very much. So, the 15 second version:
1 - Get yourself a copy of Irfanview - a free image editing utility from here. Install it.
2 - Display the web page of which you want to make a screenshot. Make sure that that is the active window.
3 - Press <ALT><Print Scrn>. This will copy the active window to the clipboard.
4 - Start Irfanview.
5 - Do <CTRL><V> (i.e., Paste from Clipboard) to paste the screenshot of the active window into the editor.
6 - Edit down to the part of the screenshot you need.
7 - Save image. Insert into webpage.
Done.
(If you just do <Print Scrn> at step 5 not <ALT><Print Scrn> you will get the whole screen.)
Tags: screendump, how to make a screenshot for your webpage, screenshot for your blog