14 replies to this topic

[shimano]

Right to begin ,I have never taken a screenshot, I have never found the need to yet. But now I have, I allways thought you pressed CTRL and printscreen ,then to open it in Photoshop it was press CTRL and V, is this correct, if so I cannot get it to work nothing happens ,could someone please explain, in simple terms what I am doing wrong, any Help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance.

Edited by shimano, 05 January 2007 - 09:42 PM.

[curtisbanks]

shimano, on Jan 5 2007, 09:41 PM, said:

Right to begin ,I have never taken a screenshot, I have never found the need to yet. But now I have, I allways thought you pressed CTRL and printscreen ,then to open it in Photoshop it was press CTRL and V, is this correct, if so I cannot get it to work nothing happens ,could someone please explain, in simple terms what I am doing wrong, any Help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance.

Sounds right, Although I just press the print screen button on my keyboard and paste into photoshop

[falafelboy]

shimano, on Jan 5 2007, 09:41 PM, said:

Right to begin ,I have never taken a screenshot, I have never found the need to yet. But now I have, I allways thought you pressed CTRL and printscreen ,then to open it in Photoshop it was press CTRL and V, is this correct, if so I cannot get it to work nothing happens ,could someone please explain, in simple terms what I am doing wrong, any Help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance.

I've had this problem sometimes. I've never really found a fix for it. Try and make sure that what you are trying to copy
is selected.

Otherwise, just use a program like ImageGrabber or Xnview. I know InterVideo WinDVD also takes screenshots if you are watching a video.

[albinoAZN]

I know that my keyboard has an "F Lock" key on it, and I have to turn on the Lock to take a screenshot.

[Spide®™]

I never hered you could do it with CTRL + printscreen, i have always just pressed printscreen, then Windows key + R
type mspaint.exe then click ok or pres enter, once paint opens CTRL + v, that should work every time, never had any probs at all

Edited by spide®, 06 January 2007 - 06:21 PM.

[Mark]

If you are trying to take a screenshot of a video, it may not work, however there are fixes to this depending on what software you are using.

I saw somewhere, too, to press ALT + PRINT SCREEN, but I've never had this problem.

[Scythar]

normally: printscreen is full screen, and ctrl+printscreen = active window.

should work.

for more pro work: "snagIt", try the demo for few days on "tecsmith" site.

[LkuHomer]

1. Print Screen
2. Ctrl + C
3. Open Paint
4. Ctrl + V

[dEcade]

All I've every had to do is:

Hit Print Scrn Key

Open program

C + V

Nothing else. Did you just try it with out Ctrl?

dEcade

[LkuHomer]

With mine, I have to copy the screen, Ctrl+C then paste it.

[Ben]

albinoAZN, on Jan 7 2007, 09:42 AM, said:

I know that my keyboard has an "F Lock" key on it, and I have to turn on the Lock to take a screenshot.

F-Lock is only for the F1-12 keys. The Printscreen button doesn't get affected by it.

As for your problem, you never have to press Ctrl with it, just press printscreen by itself, and paste it in Photoshop or some editing program.

Ben.

[bay]

shimano, on Jan 5 2007, 10:41 PM, said:

Right to begin ,I have never taken a screenshot, I have never found the need to yet. But now I have, I allways thought you pressed CTRL and printscreen ,then to open it in Photoshop it was press CTRL and V, is this correct, if so I cannot get it to work nothing happens ,could someone please explain, in simple terms what I am doing wrong, any Help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance.

You don't need any program to take a screenshot...

Just press Printscreen like you have and make sure you press Ctrl and V at the same time. My guess is that you are pressing Ctrl and then V which will not paste the image.

Or you can just go to Edit -> Paste, and that will work for sure.

[Davey]

if u're on a laptop it may be different to a conventional pc... as on my gf's laptop i have to press F/Alt then hit Print Sc with the F button still pressed then just open paint or photoshop and paste it in there

[Jacorre]

I have a tutorial on this if you want to check it out.

[N4Z.]

I find using programs easier:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...earch&meta=

A simple google search will help find a good free program that takes a screen shot and saves it as a jpeg into a folder you choose just by pressing a set key that you create for instance "CTRL + #"

A lot easier