How do I get a screenshot that includes the title bar and address window from a browser?
On a Windows machine: hold down Alt and hit Print Screen (or Prt Scr, whatever), then paste into your image editing program (or straight into Word). I can never remember if it’s Alt or Ctrl that you use to get a ‘full’ screenshot (as opposed to the active window only).
“Print Screen” is a dedicated button on my keyboard; don’t need to hit alt or shift or anything. I always paste my screenshots into Paint, then change it into a JPEG with a freeware applet because bitmaps tend to be 10-12 times bigger (file size) compared to JPEGs.
You can download trial software from the Snagit site. This is pretty cool stuff, you can choose different modes. It’s fairly easy to use. Just hit the control keys, you’ll get some cross hairs to highlight the part of the screen that you want to capture. Options to print to clipboard, screen, printer, etc.
Just press the Print Screen button to capture the screen. Then go to Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint. Go to Edit/Paste. Then save the image in whatever format you prefer.
shift + printscreen works on some…that copies it…then go to word and ‘paste’ it.
In the event that you’re on a Mac instead:
MacOS prior to MacOS X: use Command-Shift-3. The resultant screen shot will take the form of a file named Picture 0 {1, 2, 3, 4, etc} at the root of your startup hard drive. The file will be in PICT format. Open it in GraphicConverter (or JPEGview or Photoshop or iPhoto or whatever you use), trim off the parts you don’t care about, and save the results as a JPEG if you’re putting it on a web site or sending it via email. (If you just need it for your own local convenience you can leave it in PICT format).
MacOS X: Use the included utility program Grab, which will let you draw a marquee around the screen area that you want to capture and save it to your Desktop as a TIFF image. If you wish to convert it to JPEG (for reasons described above which pertain to either MacOS platform), open it in GraphicConverter /etc and convert it.
Just to clarify, PrtScrn by itself will copy the entire desktop to a raw image in the clipboard, whereas Alt+PrtScrn will copy just the active window. Handy differences depending on what it is you’re trying to achieve.
The above applies only to Windows of course. Other older OS’s sometimes sent the screen contents directly to the printer.