Multimedia graphics - screen capture

Basic screen capture

• Use [Print Scrn] button to capture an entire screen display to the clipboard
• Use [Alt] + [Print Scrn] to capture the active window
• Notes:
  • If you capture a screen that has been set to hi-colour or true colour (eg. 16 million colours) the resulting image will be large. If possible paste the image into a bitmap drawing program (eg. Paint Shop Pro) and reduce the colour depth.
  • Gif files generally reproduce better screen shots than JPEG since a "speckled" effect usually occurs in the saved JPEG file.

Advanced screen capture

• Programs like Paintshop Pro allow for the capture of selected areas of the screen.
  

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