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Take a quick picture of your screen

Take a quick picture of your screen - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows Quick Tips

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Take a quick picture of your screen

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- [Instructor] It's easy to take a picture of your screen in Windows. Use the keyboard combination Windows key + Shift + S. A bar appears at the top of the screen offering four options to take a picture. Choose full-screen snip to take a picture of the entire screen. A small preview appears at the bottom of the screen. The picture has been copied to the clipboard. You can paste it into a document or click the preview to see the picture. Use the tools at the top of the window to modify the picture. You can crop the picture, or use the markup tools to draw or write on the picture. When you're finished you can save it as a file or copy your modified picture to the clipboard, then you can go into a document and paste it. Use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + Shift + S again. You can also choose to take a picture of one single window, make a freeform selection, or a rectangular selection. Choose the option you want, then select the area that you want to capture. As before, you can click…

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