Thursday Tip: Quick and Dirty Screen Captures
In a given year, I do well over a thousand screen captures to use in my training materials. There are several very good utilities on the market to assist in this area. Probably the most comprehensive is TechSmith's SnagIt. Corel includes the Corel CAPTURE utility in the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and it is a very powerful tool. I have both of those tools and yet I never use them.
If you want to capture the current screen, just press the PrntScrn key on your keyboard. That copies the screen to the clipboard. I then switch to Corel PHOTO-PAINT and select File | New From Clipboard to paste the image into PHOTO-PAINT and save to whatever format I desire. Hint, that is never JPG. I always use TIF or PNG. To capture only the current window, use Alt + PrntScrn. Sure, these shortcuts can't do everything. Yet I still haven't opened either of those other two applications in the last year. You might just find that you don't need a separate application either.
If you want to capture the current screen, just press the PrntScrn key on your keyboard. That copies the screen to the clipboard. I then switch to Corel PHOTO-PAINT and select File | New From Clipboard to paste the image into PHOTO-PAINT and save to whatever format I desire. Hint, that is never JPG. I always use TIF or PNG. To capture only the current window, use Alt + PrntScrn. Sure, these shortcuts can't do everything. Yet I still haven't opened either of those other two applications in the last year. You might just find that you don't need a separate application either.
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