Picture problem!

Screenshots

Windows
Taking a screenshot is surprisingly a lot easier than you might suspect. There is a key on your keyboard (picture courtesy of Jremboul ~Pae) that says Print Screen on it (usually abbreviated as Print Scrn or PrntScrn depending on the keyboard used). Its on the upper right corner or your keyboard right next to the F1, F2, ....F12 buttons and right above the Insert and Delete keys.

1. When you want to take a screenshot, capture the image you want by pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard.

2. The picture is now copied. Now go to MSPaint or any picture editing program you have (ex. Photoshop) and press the Ctrl button and V (Ctrl-V) at the same time. This will allow you to paste the image you just captured. You might get a pop-up message saying "The image on the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Would you like the bitmap enlarged?", just click yes to that.

3. Now you can edit and save your picture to your hard drive.

Linux
This is a bit more complex since the Print Screen button does not work they way it should. If you are using KDE the above directions will work out. Instead of MSPaint you can use GIMP. For the rest of the linux users it requires a bit more work. Since there is no button that helps you do it you have to have a program that does it for you, I suggest GIMP since it will help you to capture and edit/save your screen shot. Unfortunately you have to know you are going to take a screenshot before you do it. If you see something cool happening on screen you will never have enough time to open GIMP and take a screenshot of it.

1. Open GIMP2.0, if you do not have it go to www.freshmeat.net and type GIMP and search for the project.

2. Click on File -> Acquire -> Screenshot. Now you have certain options you can either acquire a screenshot of the entire screen or a specific window making your life a bit easier so that you will not have to edit out any other windows you have on screen. The number of seconds delay is usefull if you want to take a screenshot of your entire screen but do not want certain programs to show, like GIMP.

3. Right after you acquire a screenshot a new window will be opened with the image there. You can edit/save as you see fit.

Mac
There are 2 ways to get a screen shot:

1. Press the keys Shift, the Apple symbol, Space, and the number 4(in this order just to be sure). Although this is 3 extra buttons in order to take a screenshot rather then the 1 Print Screen it's still handy. The picture appears on the desktop.

2. Use the Application Grab-if you need help locating it go to Finder an type in the search spot the word Grab and it should come up(icon has scissors with a window). There is no window that will pop up for Grab but in the top right hand corner there will be the Apple sign, Capture, File, Edit...then you will see under Capture if you click it Timed, Slection and Window. I usually use Selection which is like what it says: you kind of like crop the stuff you want to take a picture of. Window is wehre you click one of your windows and it takes a picture of that. Timed should be self-explanatory, but if you must know you just set how many seconds you want the Grab to wait to take a picture. The picue appeears on the desktop also.