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How to"Capture" your sceen
Many times I have been asked "How do you do the thumbnail images of websites?", so here it is.

On PC
Whole Screen Open the application, website or file you wish to take a snap shot of. Press the Print Screen key on the keyboard as shown. Your capture is now stored in memory. Active Window Only Have an active window on the screen. Now Alt-Print Screen. Your capture is now stored in memory. Viewing the Capture Open a paint program such as Photoshop, MS Paint, or Paint Shop Pro. Now make a new file: File>New and click OK. Now go to Edit>Paste to paste your capture into the new document. Now continue to "Cropping the Image".

On Mac
Whole Screen Hold down Cammand-Shift-3. This will place a file on your startup hardrive and it should be found on the desktop as "Picture 1". If you take another capture, it will make a sceond file called "Picture 2" and so on. Cursor Described Rectangle Hold down Command-Shift-4. This switches the pointer to a cursor. Select the area you want to capture with the mouse. Active Window Only Have an active window on the screen. Hold down Caps Lock-Command-Shift-4. Viewing the Capture Open a paint program such as Photoshop, Mac Paint, or Paint Shop Pro. Now make a new file: File>Open, browse to the file on the desktop and open it. Now continue to "Cropping the Image".

Cropping with Photoshop

Sometimes we want to remove application interfaces or backgrounds from the image. Thsi can be done easily in Photoshop.

1After you paste or load your image in
Photoshop, select the Rectanglular Marquee Tool. Now make a selection around the area you want to keep.

2Now go to Image>Crop.

3Resize it to the size you need it, then Save and you are finished!