Have you ever wondered "How Does One Capture The Screen On Their Moniter??". On every Standard Keyboard there is a "Print Screen" function commonly called [PrtScrn], in the operating system that copies the contents of the Entire Screen or just the Active Window to the clipboard, which can then be pasted into a graphics application to print or upload to a image hosting site like Photobucket. Here is an example of what a Standard Keyboard looks like.

Below will be some steps on Screen Capturing:

• (How To: Capture The Entire Screen) ~ Windows Edition
  1. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. It may be labeled [PrtScn].
  2. Open an image editing program, such as Microsoft Paint.
  3. Press the Ctrl Key and the V key once the Image Program is open
     Please Note: This will capture the current Screen Resolution your moniter supports.
  4. Edit the Image to how you see fit.
  5. Once your done editing go to the File Menu and choose Save As.
  6. Navigate to the folder where you want to save the image.
  7. Type a file name for the image.
  8. Select a file type(Preferrably PNG[Portable Network Graphic]).
  9. Click the Save button.

• (How To: Capture The Active Window) ~ Windows Edition
  1. Select the Window you wish to Capture
  2. Press the Alt key and the [PrtScn] key on your keyboard.
  3. Follow Steps 2 - 9 shown in (How To: Capture The Entire Screen).

• (How To: Capture The Entire Screen) ~ Macintosh Edition
  1. To capture the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3.
     ~ The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
  2. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3.
     ~ The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.
  3. To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4.
     ~ A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture.
     ~ When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
     ~ (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
  4. To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Spacebar.
     ~ The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen.
     ~ As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted.
     ~ The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it.
     ~ When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture,
     just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
     ~ (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
  5. Add Control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.
  6. Another method on Mac OS X systems is by using the bundled Apple utility, Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder.
     ~ Grab is useful if you need to include a cursor or a menu in your screen shot,
     or if you want to save your screen shot to TIFF format.
     ~ To include a cursor, first go to Grab Preferences and select the cursor icon you wish to have in your screen shot.
     ~ To capture the screen with Grab, run Grab, then choose of the capture modes from the "Capture" menu:
     - Selection
     - Window
     - Screen
     - Timed Screen.
  7. When you choose the Selection mode in Grab, you can capture a specific region of the screen by dragging around it.
     ~ Grab will display a tooltip showing the size of the region you have selected and the screen shot
     will open in a window when you release the mouse button.
     ~ The cursor will not be included.
  8. When you choose the Window mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to select the window
     you wish to capture, then click the "Choose Window" button.
     ~ When you click the button, the instructions will disappear and the window you click ill be captured,
     including the mouse cursor at the position where you click(if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
  9. When you choose the Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to
     click the screen when you are ready to capture.
     ~ The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot at the position where you click
     (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
  10. When you choose the Timed Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear,
      allowing you to prepare your screen for capture.
      ~ When you are ready, press the "Start Timer" button and you will have ten seconds before the screen is captured.
      ~ This allows you to open menus and sub-menus, if necessary. After ten seconds the entire screen will be captured.
      The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot if a cursor was selected in Preferences.
• The content for Macintosh Systems was found on Graphicsoft.com

Screen Capturing On Mobile Devices

Apple iPhone(iOS):

This just may be iPhone 101 for many members but all the while Apple has pretty much snuck a New Feature into their 2.0 Firmware Update. This feature allows everyone to capture a screen on the iPhone with just the touch of two buttons.

Follow the 5 Steps below to capture a screen using Apple's iPhone:

• Step 1: Locate The Home Button and the Sleep Button (Image Shown below)

  

• Step 2: Go to the area in which you want to capture (ex. image, website, note, etc...)
• Step 3: Click both the Home Button and the Sleep Button at the same time (You should see a flash occur)

  Side Step: For those on iPhone 4s press the Sleep Button first then press the Home Button and the same flash will occur.

• Step 4: Go into your Photos App and locate the image you just captured(Image Shown Below)
• Step 5: Upload the image to a different App (Facebook, Photobicket, etc..)

Android(Google):

With the Apple iPhone, taking screenshots of the device was as simple as pressing the Sleep and Home buttons together, and the current screen got saved under the phones Camera Roll. Android, however has no such option available. There are third-party apps that do make this task possible, but there is also the native ability as well that allows you to use a component of the Android SDK to capture screenshots of your device.

Follow the 5 Steps below to capture a Mobile Screenshot on an Andriod Device:

• Step 1: First read Installing Android SDK then move on to Step 2,
• Step 2: On your Android Device go to Settings then Applications then Development and enable USB Debugging
• Step 3: Connect your Android Device to your PC via the USB Cable
• Step 4: Go the the Tools folder in Android SDK, and run the batch file titled ddms(Image Shown Below)

  

  This will launch the Dalvik Debug Monitor Service. You should be able to see your device connected on top. In the bottom messages pane, the debugger may continue to give errors, just ignore them.

• Step 5: Under Device menu, click Screen Capture or press Ctrl + S within the Debugger window.(Image Shown Below)

  

Now you will have the Device Screen Capture window at your disposal. showing the current screen of your device. You can rotate the image, save it, or copy it to clipboard. When navigating to a new screen on device, click Refresh on the one you want to capture and the image will change. Click Done when you are finished.

This method may not be the easiest, but this is the official way to do it. The images are saved in PNG format and don’t take much size. A caveat of using this method for taking screenshots is that your memory card is not accessible to the device while in debug mode. Hence, screenshots of movies, music, etc are hardly possible.

The screenshots can be of any interface in the device as long as the USB Debugging interface remains intact.

Courtesy: AddictiveTips.com

BlackBerry(WebOS):

Courtesy: BlackBerry.com

Windows:

At this time I will not include the portion for windows since it is somewhat long and is somewhat hard to accomplish since it uses a different emmulater than Android uses. If I find a more simplier way I will for sure add it to the blog.

In Conclusion:

• There is also many different online screen capture programs (Also Screen Capture Apps)(like Firefox - FireShot, Internet Explorer - FireShot for IE, Safari - Snapper or Chrome - Screen Capture). These programs are just like the paragraphs mentioned above and each works a different way. Make sure when you download a screen capture program or application the program is compatible with your system or mobile device.

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