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How To Take A Partial Screenshot

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If you're looking for instructions on how to take a full or partial screenshot on your Windows 10 PC, your Chromebook, or your Mac computer, this brief article can help you. The instructions here are not unique and you can find them on plenty of sites, but I'm tired of looking them up elsewhere so I'm putting them on my site too. 🙂

Table of Contents

  1. How to Take a Screenshot on a Windows 10 PC
  2. How to Take a Screenshot on a Chromebook
  3. How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac

I. How to Take a Screenshot on a Windows 10 PC

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  1. How to take a screenshot on a Mac hold down ⌘ command: and shift: and press # 3 = Your Mac captures the entire screen and saves it as a file on the desktop. The file name will look like 'Screen shot 2020-12-24 at 08.45.00 AM.png'. How do I take a partial screenshot?
  2. This tutorial shows you how to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen. If you want to take a screenshot that only takes up some of the screen, use the.

A. How to take a FULL Screenshot on a Windows 10 PC

  • Press the Windows Logo button+PrtScn buttons on your keyboard to save the screenshot to a file. This will save the full screenshot into a folder called Screenshots that is a sub-folder of your Pictures Folder under your This PC Menu.
  • Use the Windows 10 Snip & Sketch Tool (formerly Snipping Tool app).

This is a really easy option, assuming you have it already installed on your PC (if not visit the Microsoft App store to download the new Snip & Sketch app). Then go to your apps and open (‘launch') it. It'll look like this…

Once Snip & Sketch is open, you'll be able to use this powerful little app to take full or partial screenshots, markup the pics, and much more. Just click the 'NEW' button in the top LEFT of the tool's menu to get started – here's what it looks like…

Snip & Sketch has a lot more to it than just screenshots so if you want to know more, check out this helpful article from WindowsCentral.

  • A 3rd option for a full screenshot is to Press the Windows Logo button + G to open the new Game Bar option in Windows 10. These screenshots will be in the Captures Folder which is a sub-folder of the VIDEOS Folder on your This PC Menu

HowtoGeek has a nice article about screenshots if you're more interested in this topic.

B. How to take a PARTIAL Screenshot on a Windows 10 PC

  • The easiest way is to just press the Windows Logo + Shift Key + S key. Then you can select the area you want to take a partial screenshot of.
  • Use the Windows 10 Snip & Sketch Tool (formerly Snipping Tool app) as noted above.

II. How to Take a Screenshot on a Chromebook

Screenshots on a Chromebook are pretty simple. All the screenshots are stored in your FILES Folder.

A. How to take a FULL Screenshot on a Chromebook

Press the Control + Shift Window Key. It looks like this…

B. How to take a PARTIAL Screenshot on a Chromebook

Press the Control key + the Shift key + the Shift Window Key. It looks like this…

III. How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac

A. How to take a FULL Screenshot on a Mac

Instructions from Apple: 'Press Shift key + Command key + 3 key. Find the screenshot on your desktop.'

B. How to take a PARTIAL Screenshot on a Mac

Instructions from Apple: 'Press Shift key + Command key + 4 key. Drag to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the entire selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. After you release your mouse or trackpad button, find the screenshot on your desktop.'

There are obviously other ways to take screenshots on your computer, but these are the ones I use because they seem to be the easiest. If you have one you recommend, let me know in the comments below.

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  • Windows 10 provides several ways to take screenshots of your entire computer screen, or just select parts of it.
  • The fastest way to take a screenshot on Windows 10 is by pressing the 'PrtScn' button on your keyboard. There are various key combos to take screenshots of portions of the screen.
  • Microsoft also provides a Snipping Tool to take custom screenshots, and draw on the images.
  • You can take screenshots within games by opening the Game Bar with the Windows + G keyboard shortcut.
  • Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories.

If you need to capture a screenshot of something on your computer screen, Windows 10 offers a variety of methods for doing just that.

Whether you want to save the entire screen, or just a piece of it, we've rounded up all the most common techniques for taking a Windows 10 screenshot.

How to take a screenshot on Windows 10 with the PrtScn key

The simplest way to save a copy of whatever is on your computer screen is to simply press the 'Print Screen' key on your keyboard. It's usually labeled 'PrtScn' (or something very similar) and is located in the top row, among or near the Function keys.

On some keyboards (particularly laptops) you might need to trigger the Print Screen using the Function key (in other words, hold the Function key and then press PrtScn).

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider The PrtScn key copies the entire screen to the clipboard, so you can paste it elsewhere, but there are several modifier keys you can use to change the way this key works. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

Windows features several PrtScn variations:

  • Press PrtScn. This copies the entire screen to the clipboard. You can paste the screenshot into any program that displays images, like Paint or Microsoft Word.
  • Press Alt + PrtScn. This copies the active window to the clipboard, which you can paste into another program.
  • Press the Windows key + Shift + S. The screen will dim and the mouse pointer will change. You can drag to select a portion of the screen to capture. The screenshot will be copied to the clipboard, which you can paste into another program. (This shortcut only works if you have the latest version of Windows 10 installed, called the Windows 10 Creators Update.)
  • Press the Windows key + PrtScn. This saves the entire screen as an image file. You can find it in the 'Pictures' folder, in a subfolder called 'Screenshots.'

How to take a screenshot on Windows 10 with Snipping Tool

Microsoft includes a much more flexible screenshot utility with Windows 10, called Snipping Tool.

You can use Snipping Tool to grab a screenshot and save it as an image file without first pasting the screenshot into another program.

1. Start the Snipping Tool from the Start menu. How do i view my google backup on computer.

2. In the 'Mode' drop down, choose the kind of screenshot shape you want - you can choose anything from full screen to rectangular to a free-form shape.

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider You can choose the kind of screenshot that Snipping Tool takes with the program's menus. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

3. Click New, and your screen will freeze. You can then use the mouse to create the screenshot. The screenshot will then appear in the Snipping Tool window.

4. If you want to include something like a tooltip, which only appears after a mouse movement, you can specify how long to wait before taking the screenshot using the Delay menu.

5. If you want to, once you've taken your screenshot, you can use the drawing tools to annotate the screenshot.

6. When you're done, click 'File' and then click 'Save As' to save the completed screenshot to your computer.

7. You can also click the copy button in the Snipping Tool window - it looks like two pages laid over one another - to copy the image to your clipboard.

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How to take a screenshot on Windows 10 with the Game Bar

The Game Bar is an overlay you can use within most Windows games to take screenshots and record video. Here's how to use it:

1. Start a game from the Start menu or the Xbox Console Companion program.

2. While playing the game, press the Windows key + G. The Game Bar overlay should appear.

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider The Game Bar has a screenshot tool that appears as an overlay on top of games. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

3. Click the camera icon to take a screenshot, or you can use the keyboard shortcut: Windows key + Alt + PrtScn.

The screenshot will be automatically saved to the 'Videos' folder in a subfolder called 'Captures.'

If you're playing a game on Steam, you can also press F11 to take a screenshot. It will be added to your screenshots folder on Steam.

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