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Screengrabs - processing  into a JPG using only Windows S/W

8/27/2017

 
Step 1: Select a Windows display screen

Here is an example from the August 25th Kelowna Now website;
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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);
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When ms Paint opens, click on File;
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A dropdown menu appears, click on New;

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Then click on Paste;

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And here is your screengrab in a new ms Paint file.

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​Step 3: Ensure the entire image to be converted
is visible in the computer screen, then c
lick on Crop
t the top of the Paint screen, then outline the dragon
oat picture in this example;


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And then, click on Crop again and voila;
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​Step 4:

Then click on File and use Save as to save the photo
​ (with an appropriate name) and as a JPG file format.

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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:
using_screengrabs_in_ms_windows.pdf
File Size: 1169 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


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