hi everyone my name is kevin today i
want to show you how you can take a
screenshot on your pc using windows 10
and full disclosure before we jump into
this i work at microsoft okay let's jump
into it here i am on my desktop and we
need something to take a screenshot of i
don't know i can't think of anything
better than my youtube page so here's my
youtube page and it has a picture of me
and an awkward pose with my finger
pointing up we're gonna take a
screenshot of this today i'm gonna show
two different methods to take a
screenshot one uses an app that comes
with windows 10 and the second technique
is using your keyboard so let's start
out with the app that comes with windows
10. the probably the easiest way you
could get to it is to open up search and
then to type in snipping tool that's the
name of the app the snipping tool so i'm
going to go ahead and type it in and
there you see it right there
the other way you could get to it is i
could click on the start menu and this
is the long way to get to it i'll go
into the start menu scroll to the very
bottom down here and then there's a
section called windows accessories
what's interesting is this shows you all
the other things that also come with
windows you got a fancy note-taking
program called notepad very basic you
also have a souped-up one called wordpad
and not quite at the level of word and
then here we also see the snipping tool
if you want easier access in the future
you can pin that to the start menu which
shows up uh where all these apps are
over here
i could also click on more and i could
pin it to the taskbar i've already
pinned it to the taskbar which is why it
says unpin
so i pinned it to the taskbar because
this is a tool and an app that i use
quite often
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
click on it on the taskbar this to open
up the snipping tool now there are a few
different modes that the snipping tool
has you could do a full screen capture
with a full screen capture that simply
takes a screenshot of the entire desktop
there's also a windows snip and i'll
show you how that works so here i could
select a window if i want to take a
screenshot of my browser or i could take
a screenshot of the whole desktop
there's also rectangular snip and
freeform snip so with a rectangular snip
i could simply uh highlight an area of
the page that i want to take a
screenshot of and the other mode the
freeform i can try my best to select an
area that i want to take a screenshot of
and here i'm going to do my best at
creating a rectangle and there you have
it there's my screenshot of myself
what i could do then is i could go to
file save as and i could save this as
different file types i have the option
of doing a png
i guess i also have a gif or a gif
depending on who you talk to and then
there's also a jpeg so i could choose
what type of file a png is the default
that i could save it as
i could also email to someone make a
copy here i can save again as well what
i can also do with this tool you can
annotate so here there's a pen tool
let's say that i want to give myself a
little mustache and then i want to give
myself a nice fake tan
there i could highlight myself in yellow
and so there you could annotate if you
take a screenshot of text and you want
to highlight it you could do all that i
could also go ahead and erase that
because i don't know if i like my fake
mustache and the fake tan
what you could also do is which is kind
of neat is you could set a delay so
similar to when you're taking a photo of
your family and someone wants to hit the
take photo button and you all run
together and smile you can set your
delay
of course someone's eyes will probably
be shut and you'll have to take your
photo again
but there's one way you can delay take a
photo so this is the snipping tool
pretty useful tool if you want to take a
screenshot okay so now that we've looked
at the snipping tool what i want to do
next is i want to show you how you can
take a screenshot using your keyboard so
i have a few different keyboards because
depending on the type of keyboard you
have the way you print your screen is
going to be a little different first
we're going to look at my dell keyboard
on my dell keyboard
there is a simply a section that says
print screen and so what i'm going to do
is because it's in blue i need to press
the function key at the same time so
i'll simply press function and print
screen at the same time and then there
the screenshot was saved if i click here
it looks like it automatically saved it
to one drive
here's the print screen that i just did
this is a microsoft keyboard there's
simply a button that says prt scn that's
the abbreviation for print screen i'm
printing the screen out that's where
that comes from because i want to print
a copy of this all i do is i simply
press the print screen button and then
that also takes a screenshot
and then i also have my lenovo laptop
here and there's a key here that says
prt sc and that also allows me to print
the screen now a few of the fancy things
that you could do so print screen simply
takes a screen capture of the entire
screen what i could also do is let's say
i select this window and i just want to
take a screenshot of this window what i
could do is just press the alt key and
print screen at the same time
and so if i go into here you'll see that
that took a screenshot of just that
window so
even if my desktop is bigger than that
window i can limit the screenshot just
to that window another kind of neat
technique is if you press the windows
key and print screen at the same time
it'll simply automatically save that so
there it saved a copy and where it puts
that is it puts it in pictures
so you go to this pc pictures and
screenshots and there you see that it
just saved the screenshot although if
you have your computer connected to one
drive and you simply hit print screen it
already saves it to one drive so it kind
of does the same thing today i showed
you two different ways you could take a
screenshot one of them is with the
snipping tool the other way is using
your keyboard and hitting the print
screen button and a few combinations of
that depending on what you want to do
hopefully that unblocks you with all
your screenshot needs
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