Questions tagged [screenshot]
Screenshot means the result of a print screen, or the capture of the entire or specific areas of a system screen to an image file.
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How can I take browser screenshots at a higher resolution than my browser supports?
I need to take a screenshot of a website as it would appear on a very high resolution monitor... say 4000x3000 pixels. My laptop's screen has a native resolution of 1400x768. Basically, I need to ...
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How can I take a screenshot that includes the mouse cursor?
When taking screen shots for use in tutorials, it would be really helpful to include the mouse cursor in the picture, but I've found that most screenshot tools (including those that ship with Windows) ...
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How can I take screenshots of the Windows 10 Login Screen?
How can I take a screenshot of the Windows 10 Login Screen?
I have read How can I take a screenshot of my logon screen in Windows 7?. Unfortunately, the posted answers reportedly only work for either ...
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Can one take a partial screen shot in Windows 7?
One can take a screen shot of a part of the screen on a Mac with Cmd + Shift + 4.
Is there a similar functionality in Windows 7?
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How to take a screenshot that includes a scrolling element within a web page in Firefox?
I need to take a screenshot of an entire webpage. The trick is that I need the screenshot to include the entire contents of a single element that does not fit in the screen.
It is a single ...
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Is there a way to snip part of the screen with a hotkey?
I'm able to launch the snipping tool, select an option and then copy based on my selection. Is there a way to launch a default snipping option so that I can create partial screen screenshots without ...
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How to take a shadowless screenshot on Windows 10?
Using Alt+Print on the keyboard, a screenshot of the currently active window is copied to the clipboard.
Unfortunately, on Windows 10 this also takes the area of the window's shadow into the ...
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Take a screen shot from command line in Windows
I am looking for a way to take a screenshot of the entire screen from the command line. Operating system is Windows. Something like this:
C:\>screenshot.exe screen1.png
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Automatically save a snipped screenshot to disk
In Windows 10 you can press + PrtScn and it will save a screenshot of the whole desktop to disk. This works great.
What I'm looking for is this exact functionality but being able to choose a region ...
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Is it possible to take a screenshot of a web page as an SVG image?
I have a webpage which is entirely vector-based (text, icon fonts, SVGs, but no PNGs, JPEGs, or GIFs).
Is there any way to take a vector screenshot of that webpage and save it as a fully-scalable SVG ...
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How to take a screenshot of a window larger than the screen
I want to take a screen shot of a window that's larger than the screen size.
If I zoom out of the window and I take the screenshot, I lose quality since zooming into the image will not work.
A ...
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Tool to annotate pictures (screenshots) for documentation purposes? [closed]
Long time ago, I saw someone use a software (on Windows) that was specifically created to annotate pictures. It made it simple to add arrows, boxes, circles in "outstanding" colors to the image. ...
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Take a screen shot of a scrolling window that includes off-screen parts [closed]
On the Mac, how can I take a screen shot of a window that includes the parts that are off-screen and need scrolling to become visible?
The built-in Grab application can capture individual windows, ...
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Can I take a screenshot as vector graphics or at a higher resolution than native?
I need to take some screenshots of an application window. My laptop resolution is low, and I'd like to get high quality images.
Is there a way to grab the screen as vector graphics (e.g. EPS, PDF, ...
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How can I take screenshots of YouTube videos in full screen?
I am trying to take a screenshot of a YouTube video in fullscreen.
When I pause the video and wait a moment, only the bottom UI bar (play/pause/seek) disappears. The top UI bar (Like/Share/More Info) ...
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How to snip same part of screen as last time?
In windows 10, I can use the Snipping Tool or Snip & Sketch to snip a part my screen (basically a screenshot + crop to selection). I would like to snip the same part of the screen after I perform ...
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Stop Microsoft Word 2010 from smoothing screenshots?
When I insert JPEG screenshots into Microsoft Word, it smoothes them instead of preserving the original pixels from the bitmap. When I then print to PDF (using Acrobat Distiller), depending on my ...
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Can Windows 7 or Vista's Snipping Tool capture a screen 10 seconds later, and capture the mouse pointer as well?
I wonder if Windows 7 or Vista's Snipping Tool can capture a screen 10 seconds later, and capture the mouse pointer as well?
The thing is that sometimes we need to capture the thing that "pops up" ...
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Is there a "Print Screen" command in Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro?
I have a MacBook Pro with Windows 7 installed on the Boot Camp partition. I've figured out how to invoke most of the "missing keys" (like home, end, page up, page down) but have not yet figured out if ...
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How can I take screenshots of the PC before it boots up?
How can I take a screenshot of the PC before it has started up?
For example:
If I wanted to take a screenshot of my BIOS and send it to the Network Admin for review
Windows installation screenshots ...
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Paste a screenshot in windows explorer
Anyone know of a way to simply paste a screenshot (taken with PrtScn or Alt+PrtScn) into a Windows Explorer folder and have it be saved as an image (possibly with a dialog asking about image size and ...
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How to reset the screenshot counter in Windows 8?
In Windows 8, Win+PrtScr will automatically save a sequentially numbered screenshot at
%UserProfile%\Pictures\Screenshots. The file names are of the form
Screenshot (<index>).png. However, even ...
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How to take a screenshot of an entire scroll element?
I searched the Internet to find a way to do it,
but I didn’t find anything that works.
I use the web version of Tinder app. There's a chat section inside a div and I want to take a pic of the entire ...
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How to take a screenshot of a something bigger than the screen?
I have a created a route using Google Maps. I want to take a screenshot of this route in satellite view with maximum zoom. But since it doesn't fit my screen I can't do it. It there a way around this?
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How to take a screenshot of a page N seconds after page is loaded with Chrome Headless?
I want to make a screenshot of a page with Chrome Headless, and we've seen both the --screenshot and the --virtual-time-budget switches for taking a screenshot and limiting the browser's waiting for ...
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Can I assign "Print Screen" as a shortcut for Snipping Tool?
I'm using the Snipping Tool on Windows 7. When I click on the Snipping Tool's Properties in the Start menu, I can assign a shortcut like Ctrl+F12 to it
Can I also assign only the key PrintScreen as a ...
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How to take a screenshot on Windows 7 and auto create screenshot file on desktop like Mac?
I'm trying to find information how do we take a screenshot on Windows 7 that will actually create a screenshot file like .png in to your desktop like on mac where you can do it by pressing ...
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What software for Mac OS X can take auto screen captures at intervals? [closed]
I need a piece of software for Mac OS X 10.6 similar to AutoScreenShot for Windows that will take screenshots at intervals for me.
I'm trying to make a time-lapsed video of my work on an ...
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How can I repeatedly take a screenshot of a specific area in OS X?
Under OS X, I need to take a screenshot of the same specific screen area. I know I can press hotkeys to grab the entire screen, or an area of the screen, but then I always have to select it.
Can I ...
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Where did Windows 10 save clipped images using Windows Key + Shift + S?
When using + Shift + S, the selected area of the screen is copied to the clipboard.
Is it saved somewhere also as an image? If so, where can I find it?
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How can I send screenshots more quickly in Skype?
It's so long and complicated to open Paint/Photoshop/whatever and saving a file somewhere, then dragging it to Skype just send a screenshot to a friend through Skype! How can I speed up the process? ...
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Capturing a window image or taking a screen shot in a Windows XP virtual machine running in Virtual Box on a MacBook pro?
I've got a MacBookPro (no external keyboard, just the built-in laptop keyboard) and I'm running Virtual Box. My virtual machine is Windows XP and I'd like to capture an image of a window (or the whole ...
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How to make Windows Snipping Tool always save image instead of putting it in clipboard
I take many screenshots on my Windows 10 laptop.
I sometimes use Windows Snipping Tool (WinShiftS which opens the little bar at the top and you can take a snip of the window, whole screen or custom ...
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Take a screenshot of an entire webpage in Opera
Is there some tool within Opera, or possibly an add-on, which will let me take a screenshot of an entire web page? I usually use Screengrab to do this with Firefox, but in this situation I want a ...
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Screen shot drop down menu with snipping tool
Using the Windows snipping tool, it is not possible (or is it?) to get a screenshot of a drop down menu. As soon as you select "New" in the snipping tool's toolbar, then the drop down menu disappears....
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How does screenshotting work? [closed]
I'm currently writing an exam paper about in-game photography and in doing so I wish to (briefly) point out the differences between a camera and screenshotting - but I don't really know enough about ...
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Why can't I take a screenshot on my second monitor on my Mac?
Whenever I attempt to take a screenshot on the second monitor, it fails silently. Is this possible, or do I have to move whatever I want to take a picture of onto the first monitor?
Using Snow ...
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How I can take a screenshot with current cursor in GNOME?
When I take a screenshot in Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome) using application "Take Screenshot" I get a screenshow this a default mouse cursor, but when i take a screenshot, cursor of mouse was another, for ...
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Snipping tool in Windows 7 + 10: Save images with lowercase PNG file extension?
The snipping tool in Windows is sufficient for quick screenshots. The only (and annoying) problem is that it saves all files with a uppercase PNG extension, e. g. screenshot.PNG
As there are no ...
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How can I take a screenshot of my logon screen in Windows 7?
Ideally, this can be done for a non-virtual installation of Windows 7 and without the use of an RDP client connection. There are numerous blog posts, how-to's, etc that include screen shots of the ...
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How do I change the default screenshot name in OS X Lion?
In OS X Lion, when I press cmd+shift+4 and then space, I take a screenshot of an app.
But I use my OS in Spanish, and the screenshot file name is very long with spaces and "(,)" chars.
Captura de ...
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Capture large webpage screenshot in Chrome
The webpage is very large (a few MB). I tried these extensions and they all fail:
Screen Capture (by Google) - I get a new tab with no image in it
Pixlr Grabber - I get a "500" request error after ...
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How to directly copy screenshot to slack/skype in Mac OS X like snipping does in windows
In windows we have snipping tool. In which after grabbing the screen user can click on copy in snipping tool, now when user press control + v in skype and slack the stream screenshot pasted in chat ...
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Can I use the snipping tool to take a screenshot of the windows 8 start screen or modern apps?
One of the tools I've found invaluable in answering questions on SU is the snipping tool. I may on occasion need to take screenshots of part of the start screen or 'modern' apps. I may not want to ...
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Looking for software to create Step-By-Step Screenshot guides [closed]
I like to annotate a series of existing pictures like that one shown below. Each shows GUI elements and I want to add some circles, arrows and numbers to create a step by step guide.
Is there any ...
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How can I automatically save screenshots to Dropbox? [closed]
I'm looking for an easy way to grab screenshots and put them in my public Dropbox folder. Preferably I could also easily grab the direct sharing url.
Bonus points for suggestions that let me select ...
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"Capture full size screenshot" in Brave or Chrome doesn't work on certain pages (such as Airtable)
I love the "Capture full size screenshot" feature built into Chrome and Brave and use it frequently.
However, it seems that certain websites are coded in a way that the "Capture full ...
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How to take screenshot at "100% size" on a high-DPI with scaling enabled?
Seemingly simple thing but I can't figure it out.
I'm on Windows 10 with a high-DPI monitor for which I have 125% scaling enabled. The screenshots look good (crisp, correct size) in local apps like ...
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Take a high resolution screenshot of a website
I want to put a (non-image) portion of my website on a t-shirt, and to do so I need a high-resolution image of the relevant part. My thought is to tell some utility "take a screenshot of this webpage ...
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