How to Capture a Screenshot using Paint
It is very easy to capture a screenshot off the web to use as a graphic.
First, find the webpage with the image you want to capture.
I want to capture the image of the dancing doughboy. On your keyboard, press the PRINT SCREEN or PRINT SCRN/SYSRQ button.
Now, open your Paint program. If you don’t have Paint, download it for free here.
Hold CTRL and press V (the ‘Paste’ command under ‘Edit’).
When asked to expand canvas to fit pasted image, click YES.
Now you’re asked to change the canvas size. You won’t need to change anything, so just click OK.
And there it is! Now, we’ll cut out the image.
Click the Rectangle Select button in the top left corner of the tool bar
and click and drag a rectangle around the image that you want.
When satisfied with your selection, Hold CTRL and press X (the ‘Cut’ command under ‘Edit’). Your image will be cut out and replaced with a gray checkered box.
Hold CTRL and press N (the ‘New’ command, under ‘Edit’).
When asked if you want to save changes to Untitled, click NO.
You will be prompted to change the pixel and print size. Again, you don’t need to change anything, so just click OK.
You’ll see a blank rectangle in the middle of a gray screen.
Hold CTRL and press V (the ‘Paste’ command).
And there’s that hunkalicious piece of muffin meat! You may have to center him in the white space. You can do that by simply clicking near (or on) him and dragging.
Now we’ll save him on our computer. Hold CTRL and press S (the ‘Save’ command).
Save your image wherever you’d like. I personally just click on ‘My Documents’ and save them in a sub-folder named ‘Images’. Type a name for the image next to ‘File name:’ and choose which type of file next to ‘Save as type:’. I usually just pick JPEG, as it’s the most common. Again, though, that’s up to you. When finished click SAVE.
Admire your work and click OK. You’re done.
You can do many different things with this image now, such as change the color, edit the background, change his expression, put him in a photo (pixel size would matter), put him on a website, etc.
That’ll be for another post though. Enjoy.
Image credit: Pillsbury.com
