There are many operations we perform on our computer every day without realizing how much time we waste doing them. An example above all is the screen capture, which many users perform by pressing the Print Screen key on the PC keyboard and pasting the image into Paint, without knowing that there are much better and more efficient tools such as GreenShot.
GreenShot is a free application for Windows systems that allows you to immortalize your PC desktop (or portions of it) and save the images obtained in various ways: locally, on the clipboard or on the Internet. It includes a convenient internal editor, through which screenshots can be edited "on the fly" and supports the export of images to various programs, such as those of Office and Paint. there how to photograph the computer screen using it.
To discover how to photograph the screen, the first step you need to take is to connect to the GreenShot website and click on the black button DOWNLOAD to start downloading the program on your PC. When the download is complete, open the file you just downloaded by double clicking on it (Greenshot-INSTALLER–1.0.6.2228.exe) and, in the window that opens, first click on Yes and then OK e Next.
Accetta quindi the conditions of use of the program, meeting the segno di spunta accanto alla voce I accept the agreement, and click your cousin Next six consecutive times and then on install e Finish to finish the installation process and start GreenShot, which will go to the notification area.
photograph the screen us GreenShot, all you have to do is click with the right mouse button on the application icon located next to the Windows clock and choose the option you prefer from the menu that appears. You can create a snapshot of the entire desktop (by selecting the item Capture full screen), a portion of it (via the option Capture region) or "photograph" specific windows on the PC desktop (by choosing the item Capture window and clicking on the window to capture or selecting the program to capture from the menu Capture window from list).
Once you have captured the screen, you will not directly view the image obtained but you can choose which operation to perform from a menu that will appear automatically. Among the available options are the direct saving of the screenshot (voice Save as), copying the image to the Windows clipboard, printing (send to printer), copying "on the fly" in programs installed on the PC (eg. Microsoft Word, Paint, etc.), uploading online to Imgur and editing with GreenShot's internal editor (Open in Image editor).
THEeditor di GreenShot is a very useful tool that allows you to edit screen snapshots immediately after taking them. Through the latter, you can add arrows, geometric shapes e testi to the images, rotate, highlight parts of them, cut them, resize and much more. Just use the buttons in the sidebar located on the left.
Once the editing process is finished, you can choose whether to save the edited screenshot on your PC (in file formats such as JPG, PNG e BMP) or whether to copy it to the clipboard, upload it online, print it, or export it to other applications. Find everything in the toolbar located at the top. Simple, right?
How to photograph the screen
