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screen picture

Apr 22, 2004 3:34AM PDT

please can you tell me how to take a screen picture with windows paint, win xp regards A Gibbs

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Re:screen picture
Apr 22, 2004 12:33PM PDT

One way is to hit the "Print Screen" key and then go into Paint and hit Ctrl-V to paste the picture in there.

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Apr 22, 2004 3:42PM PDT

If you do a lot of screen captures, you may want to consider "Snagit". I have been useing this program for a couple of years a love it. Price between $20.00 and $40.00...
Hope this helps...

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Apr 22, 2004 4:27PM PDT

Instead of pasting your image into Paint, just paste it into IrfanView, which is a great picture viewer (60 formats) and minor editor. Then it can save the captured image in any of 18 formats (i.e. JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, etc. etc.)

And why pay for a screen capture program when there are some really nice free programs available?
Here again, I prefer IrfanView which also does screen captures. It can capture screens, or just windows, or just the client area, with or without the cursor. It can capture via a hot key or a timed period.

IrfanView is available at IrfanView.com Click Here