How to make a screenshot on a laptop?

The need to save the current information presented on the laptop screen arises quite often. Screenshots are needed both in the process of performing important work, and to save certain moments during the game or correspondence. To save what is happening on the monitor, you do not need to kill a lot of time and install additional utilities. Want to know how to take a screenshot on a laptop? Read on!

Some users store entire archives of important screenshots.

Keyboard tricks

Developers have long foreseen the ability to save images from the monitor by adding some PrtSc SysRq key on the keyboard. It can be called differently on different devices (prt sc, Print Screen, etc.), but it has one function - to “capture” what is happening in the form of a JPG file. It is not difficult to find it, because in most cases it is installed in the upper right part. The abbreviated name is given on small keyboards; here PrtScr is most often seen.

If you want to “capture” the screen on the device, this option alone may not be enough. Try pressing the PrtSc + Fn key combination. Such combinations are used on small-sized gadgets with a truncated keyboard. At the bottom of the keyboard there is the Fn key, and only with its help you can activate a number of useful buttons.

Holding Fn + PrtScr, you will be able to save in the device's memory what happens at a particular moment. The screenshot in this case falls into the so-called clipboard. To see the image of what you were able to save, you will have to perform another additional action.

Saving screen

So, the image on the screen was saved in the temporary memory of the computer. If you restart the laptop right now, then once again you will never be able to look at this image. Screenshots are saved as graphics files using standard editors. For us, the standard editor from Windows, and fancy Photoshop, and small in size, but very useful Picasa or FastStone, are suitable. The choice of the program is not fundamental, the main thing is that you have at least one of this list and know how to use it. Can't find the right utility? In this case, open Paint, this program is probably provided by default for any netbook.

Having dealt with the tool for working with graphics, open the selected utility and create a new file (usually the Ctrl + N key combination helps). Now it is enough to insert a previously copied element into the appeared window. This is done in different ways:

  1. Edit - Paste.
  2. The combination of buttons Ctrl + V.
  3. Right-click on the editor field, where there is an item "Paste".

By selecting any of the options, you will get the same outcome - the file with the image of what is happening on the screen will appear in the editor.

To figure out how to take a screenshot on a laptop, you do not need to be a great specialist, you only need to have basic PC skills. The image that you managed to transfer to Paint or Photoshop, it remains only to save. This is a trivial operation, about which, most likely, everyone knows (Ctrl + S or “Save as ...”). After that you can edit the file and, if necessary, transfer it to another user.

Today, there are a number of special programs that help to do the steps described above faster (Clip2net, Joxi, Lightshot). You can download them for free using the world wide web.

Last tip: if you want to save a picture of the part of the screen on which the program you need is present, press Alt + PrtScr. If on the screen at a particular moment you have Word open, and you decide to open a calculator, then when you use this combination, the calculator images will be saved. Good luck!