# How do you do a screenshot on youtube? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 7, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662 "2009-05-07T15:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mazinger\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mazinger\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazinger_z)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/1 "2009-05-07T15:53:44Z")
I googled a bit, but I didn’t want to download software. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/2 "2009-05-07T15:58:34Z")
I can’t get to youtube at work, so I can’t try it, but have you tried Ctrl-PrintScreen? I was able to try it on a live webcam, and it worked for that. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/3 "2009-05-07T15:58:48Z")
On a Mac, pause the video them ‘command+shift+4’. On a PC, pause then ‘print screen’ button. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/4 "2009-05-07T18:19:36Z")
Note that this is not the same as a still frame of the video – you get everything on the monitor screen, including menu bars, other open windows, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/5 "2009-05-07T19:56:11Z")
With a PC: [ul] [li] **\-PrintScreen** captures an image of the entire screen[/li][li] **\-PrintScreen** captures an image of only the active, open window[/li][/ul] Both require a decent graphics program for editing. There is a decent application that does this - [SnagIt](http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp). If you use Firefox, you can install the [FireShot](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648) addon to capture just the browser content view or even an entire web page. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/6 "2009-05-07T20:08:31Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > With a PC: > [ul] > [li] **\-PrintScreen** captures an image of the entire screen[/li][li] **\-PrintScreen** captures an image of only the active, open window[/li][/ul] > > Both require a decent graphics program for editing. 😕 Not really. Launch Paint, Edit | Paste, Use the square grab to grab the Youtube window, Edit | Copy, File | New, Edit | Paste, reszie the whitespace, Save. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/7 "2009-05-07T22:11:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Note that this is not the same as a still frame of the video – you get everything on the monitor screen, including menu bars, other open windows, etc. If you pause the video, then hit the fullscreen option on YouTube, then do an Alt/Print Screen, it will capture a full screen frame with no other menu bars, windows, etc. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-screenshot-on-youtube/495662/8 "2009-05-08T11:33:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Note that this is not the same as a still frame of the video – you get everything on the monitor screen, including menu bars, other open windows, etc. Command+shift+4 allows you capture just the still frame, command+shift+3 captures everything on the monitor.