Do you know you can screenshot anything in windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 without installing any external application?. The simple trick is that you can use a built-In tool which is available in any windows Os version to achieve this. The magic windows tool is called the Snipping Tool available in windows Os by default, although it is not so great you can still use it to achieve a nice screenshot result in any windows Os version without having to install any third party external software application to have this functionality there.
Sometimes you may wonder, why do I need this?. This is because pictures appeal more to human memory when it is use for explanatory purposes than a thousand written word can do. Often times will venture into some problems while using our Personal computers for doing some meaningful task will ought to do and in this kind of occasions will come across some issues such as software malfunctioning or even hardware failures which will actually do not know how to explain to get reasonable help from technical repair personnel who are not opportune to come in touch with our personal computers. Here having a screenshot of our computer screen can help us provide reasonable information for a technical assistant to determine what actually is wrong with our PC system in other to direct us on how to fix it up ourselves without individual assistance. Now you can see that it help a lot to have a Tool such as the Snipping Tool in any version of our Windows Os version. That is actually what a Snipping Tool does.
Steps On how to Use the Snipping Tool.
Note: At first the snipping tool will make your screen look a little bit faded, This is because the Snipping tool has control now-It is waiting for you to take a picture of your screen or exit from it by clicking on the close button on the top right hand of the little open window of the Tool.
Now we are going to get a detail explaination of what each snip type menu is use for in the drop down menu of the menu New.
Free-form Snip.
The Free-form Snip type menu is use to carve out any odd object out of a picture if only the shape of actual object in the picture is need, it has a pen tool use to draw out the capture part of the image to be save as an extraction.
Rectangular Snip.
The Rectangular Snip type menu is usually use to carve out an object from a picture in a rectangular manner.
Window Snip.
This menu enable us to carve out the entire window excluding the taskbar of the window.
Full-Screen Snip.
It is actually self explainable it use to just screen shot the entire window including the task bar of the desktop screen.
Now, let's just assume you selected the Rectangular Snip menu type, So to take a screen shot of the specific part of the screen or picture you want to screen shot just click the New menu at the top left part of the little window open and then click on the desired start point and drag your mouse to select out the need part that is to be extracted and then release your mouse. A new window will appear and your screen shot image is right there waiting for you. In this case I just took an image of Google home page on my Firefox browser.
To save the extracted picture you just click on the File menu at the Top left part of the snipping tool
and then select the drop down menu "Save As" to save the image as a PNG image file.
Sometimes you may wonder, why do I need this?. This is because pictures appeal more to human memory when it is use for explanatory purposes than a thousand written word can do. Often times will venture into some problems while using our Personal computers for doing some meaningful task will ought to do and in this kind of occasions will come across some issues such as software malfunctioning or even hardware failures which will actually do not know how to explain to get reasonable help from technical repair personnel who are not opportune to come in touch with our personal computers. Here having a screenshot of our computer screen can help us provide reasonable information for a technical assistant to determine what actually is wrong with our PC system in other to direct us on how to fix it up ourselves without individual assistance. Now you can see that it help a lot to have a Tool such as the Snipping Tool in any version of our Windows Os version. That is actually what a Snipping Tool does.
Steps On how to Use the Snipping Tool.
- To get it started click the Windows Logo Button.
- On the Windows Taskbar search bar type the word "Snipping Tool"
- When you are done typing this, you will see the "Snipping Tool listed below the search bar the press the Enter key and you will see the tool open in it own little window.
Note: At first the snipping tool will make your screen look a little bit faded, This is because the Snipping tool has control now-It is waiting for you to take a picture of your screen or exit from it by clicking on the close button on the top right hand of the little open window of the Tool.
- Select a snip type from the menu by clicking the New button.
Now we are going to get a detail explaination of what each snip type menu is use for in the drop down menu of the menu New.
Free-form Snip.
The Free-form Snip type menu is use to carve out any odd object out of a picture if only the shape of actual object in the picture is need, it has a pen tool use to draw out the capture part of the image to be save as an extraction.
Rectangular Snip.
The Rectangular Snip type menu is usually use to carve out an object from a picture in a rectangular manner.
Window Snip.
This menu enable us to carve out the entire window excluding the taskbar of the window.
Full-Screen Snip.
It is actually self explainable it use to just screen shot the entire window including the task bar of the desktop screen.
Now, let's just assume you selected the Rectangular Snip menu type, So to take a screen shot of the specific part of the screen or picture you want to screen shot just click the New menu at the top left part of the little window open and then click on the desired start point and drag your mouse to select out the need part that is to be extracted and then release your mouse. A new window will appear and your screen shot image is right there waiting for you. In this case I just took an image of Google home page on my Firefox browser.
To save the extracted picture you just click on the File menu at the Top left part of the snipping tool
and then select the drop down menu "Save As" to save the image as a PNG image file.
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