Step 1: Select a Windows display screen Here is an example from the August 25th Kelowna Now website; Click on image to enlarge: The above is the Edge (aka Internet Explorer) screengrab acquired by pressing the Print Scrn keyboard button. Step 2: Open MS Paint and create your screengrab image Click on Windows Accessories, then click on Paint (may look different based on version of Windows used); Click on image to enlarge: When ms Paint opens, click on File; Click on image to enlarge: A dropdown menu appears, click on New; Click on image to enlarge: Then click on Paste; Click on image to enlarge: And here is your screengrab in a new ms Paint file. Click on image to enlarge: Step 3: Ensure the entire image to be converted is visible in the computer screen, then click on Crop t the top of the Paint screen, then outline the dragon oat picture in this example; Click on image to enlarge: And then, click on Crop again and voila; Click on image to enlarge: Step 4: Then click on File and use Save as to save the photo (with an appropriate name) and as a JPG file format. Click on image to enlarge: Post Procedure; Because of the steps involved this all sounds pretty onerous, however I think after doing it a few times it can be accomplished almost as quickly as I do now with PhotoShop. For things like Word documents (e.g. menus) I always recommend saving the document as a pdf file, then taking a screengrab from the PDF version. Procedure updated on September 16, 2017 Keith Millard Note: This procedure is also available in a PDF format, clicking on Download File (below) will open the PDF file in a new window. It can then be printed or downloaded to your own computer. Click on Download File to open in a new window, back button to return: ![]()
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