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homerjward
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extra step: dont use paint's jpeg compression for chrissakes!! get irfanview, save it as a bitmap from paint, then open in irfanview and export to jpg or whatever! irfanview is freeware, and it's awesome! yeah, and afaik you need to take a full screenshot then crop it, or use some other app besides the regular print screen. and it's just printscreen on most keyboards.skubish said:
Taking a screen shot in Windows
I actually find it easier and more convenient to take screenshots in Winblows than in OSX (Yes, I'm a heathen)
Pressing Printscreen by itself copies the entire screen buffer into the clipboard. From there, paste into your prefered image editor (Paint, irfanview, etc.). Alt-Printscreen copies just the current window.
I actually find it easier and more convenient to take screenshots in Winblows than in OSX (Yes, I'm a heathen)
Pressing Printscreen by itself copies the entire screen buffer into the clipboard. From there, paste into your prefered image editor (Paint, irfanview, etc.). Alt-Printscreen copies just the current window.
homerjward
macrumors 68030
mkrishnan
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JonBoy470 said:
In OS X, there are shortcuts for this too:
Ctrl-Apple-Shift-3 -> screen to clipboard
Ctrl-Apple-Shift-4 -> selection to clipboard.
And of course, you can easily change these to match what you like from System Prefs. 🙂
OTOH, in Windows, I also use Paint in the process, and it is a very nice, light app for that kind of thing, and for this, there's no really exact equivalent in OS X. 🙁
kalisphoenix
macrumors 65816
kalisphoenix
macrumors 65816
Mac keyboard in Windows
What if I'm using a Mac keyboard that does not have a "printscreen" button? I'm using Windows on my Mac's partitioned drive, and need to print a screen on the PC side.
What if I'm using a Mac keyboard that does not have a "printscreen" button? I'm using Windows on my Mac's partitioned drive, and need to print a screen on the PC side.
bbotte
macrumors 65816
As a new Apple user, What is the "Apple" key? I have a Brand new MB Air and my keyboard has FN, Control, Option, And Command. 😕 I see no "Apple" key.
Well, the Apple key has an apple picture on it. It is also the Command key. If you don't have an "Apple" keyboard, that may be why it's not there. I don't know what the "FN" key is though. ???
There's no Apple key on the laptops keyboard, at least on the newest (early and late 2008).
mkrishnan
Moderator emeritus
Command is synonymous with Apple... in my own defense, three years ago, when I made that post, Apple keyboards had an apple symbol on the command key. 😛
Fn (short for "function") is a key that's only on some keyboards -- generally the ones that don't have a full desktop-style keyboard layout. On these keyboards, you see some secondary functions on other keys, e.g. the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End functions are on the arrow keys, and so on. The Fn key provides those actions on those keys (e.g. Fn-Right might be Page Down, if the Right key has Page Down written on it). If you have a full keyboard, all those functions have their own key and so you don't need an Fn key....
Also for what it's worth, in the intervening time since I last posted in this thread 🙄 a program called Skitch was released. If you do much screenshot taking in OS X (even though this whole thread is about screenshots in Windows and not OS X -- double 🙄 🙄 ), this program is invaluable.
http://plasq.com/skitch
Check out this document...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1167
It lists keyboard mapping in Windows on various Apple keyboards, and you can find how to get printscreen on your keyboard from there.
Fn (short for "function") is a key that's only on some keyboards -- generally the ones that don't have a full desktop-style keyboard layout. On these keyboards, you see some secondary functions on other keys, e.g. the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End functions are on the arrow keys, and so on. The Fn key provides those actions on those keys (e.g. Fn-Right might be Page Down, if the Right key has Page Down written on it). If you have a full keyboard, all those functions have their own key and so you don't need an Fn key....
Also for what it's worth, in the intervening time since I last posted in this thread 🙄 a program called Skitch was released. If you do much screenshot taking in OS X (even though this whole thread is about screenshots in Windows and not OS X -- double 🙄 🙄 ), this program is invaluable.
http://plasq.com/skitch
Check out this document...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1167
It lists keyboard mapping in Windows on various Apple keyboards, and you can find how to get printscreen on your keyboard from there.
themoonisdown09
macrumors 601
Wow... this thread got brought back from the dead.
You can save it as a PNG in paint and it has a lot better quality then JPG.
You can save it as a PNG in paint and it has a lot better quality then JPG.
Screenshot on windows
😀 Guys:
To take a screen shot just press fn+shift+F11 and just paste it on paint or any aplication you may want to use. Hope this is helpfull
😀 Guys:
To take a screen shot just press fn+shift+F11 and just paste it on paint or any aplication you may want to use. Hope this is helpfull
fireshot91
macrumors 601
17Patty
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You can go to accesories, accesibility and use the keybord on screen, there you get the option of psc.
Hey
Hey
I had the same question as you i did a bit of research and YES you can take a screen shot on mac using windows and this is how you do it!
fn+shift+alt(release)+F11 = active window
fn+shift(release)+ F11 = complete screen
Hey
I had the same question as you i did a bit of research and YES you can take a screen shot on mac using windows and this is how you do it!
fn+shift+alt(release)+F11 = active window
fn+shift(release)+ F11 = complete screen