EASY~PEASY SCREEN CAPTURE

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Karen

I am writing this tutorial because I have had many people ask me how I do the screen captures I use in the tutorials. Well, the P.S.P manual instructions are very long winded and confusing to a beginner, I certainly can`t make a screen capture using the manual!!! Luckily someone told me an easier way ( thanks Gina) and so I would like to share with you. Here`s how I make my screen captures...

Lets first assume you are working in P.S.P, and want to capture the screen contents- or part of it, either to use on a tutorial or web page, or to keep for future reference of how you got a particular effect etc. For this tutorial we will pretend we are making a new globe and want to capture the "glass" step... we simply press the "print screen" key on the keyboard... OK, so it doesn`t seem to do anything ( I often gave up at this point not thinking it had worked!)... now you go to edit /paste as new image, hey presto, a miniature screen pops up!. (fig 1)

Now lets assume we only wanted to keep the part containing the globe. Go to selections tool, right click and select tool options, set as fig 2.

Next, drag the pointer round the globe part, release the mouse button to select it, then go to edit /copy /edit /paste as new image. You will now have your selected portion of the first screen capture. (fig 3)

If the captured portion is too big try resizing it before saving on your computer.   That`s it!!! Happy Capturing..........

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial which was written in P.S.P V 7 but should adapt for other versions.

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