Screenshot Method Collection

1. Intercept the right button menu

The traditional way to intercept the right button menu, often when the screenshot button, the right menu but disappeared. For example, with the QQ screenshot button, Baidu Pinyin input method with the screenshot button can not achieve direct screenshot right menu. How to solve?

When the right key menu cannot be intercepted, we can use the shortcut key screenshot method. For example, Baidu Pinyin Input Method screenshot provides a shortcut screenshot combination of key for ctrl+shift+a (Figure 1), when we can not use the Input Method screenshot button to intercept the right menu, you can activate the right-click menu after the Ctrl+shift+a of the method to intercept the picture. In addition, QQ screenshot plugin also support this method to solve the problem, get the right button menu picture, QQ screenshot default shortcut key combination for ctrl+alt+a (Figure 2). Key combinations can be customized by software settings to resolve the possibility of conflict between software shortcuts.

Tips: keyboard shortcut combination screenshot instead of the command button screenshot, in fact, to circumvent the mouse operation of the conflict problem. As a result of the right-click menu operation for the right mouse button, and click on the left mouse buttons, in the process of switching, the latter's operation will inevitably affect the state of the former, resulting in the mouse key operation conflict, can not complete the right button menu crawl. Know the root cause of this problem, the solution to have a common idea, that is to seek to avoid the mouse operation of the screenshot--using keyboard key combination mode. So, no matter which way to catch the map, usually encountered this problem, the solution is to immediately search the software to capture the shortcut key combination is what.

　　2. Intercept Multilevel Menu

If you want to intercept multiple levels of pop-up menus at the same time, you will find that when the last level menu pops up, when you press the Grab button or grab the key combination, the Grab range box will automatically point to the last menu box, and if you move to another level, the upper level cannot be selected. So, how to ensure that the screenshot button after the multilevel menu is still retained, and can be crawled?

We can solve this problem in two ways. The first one is to use the tool that can grab all levels of menu directly, and it is necessary to implement it (need to set up accordingly); The second is to use the common grasping to carry on the whole area crawl, and then use the revision software to cut the irrelevant area.

If we use the SnagIt grab software, click the right mouse button on the system tray icon and select "Capture Type" as "menu". This way, when you encounter a need to crawl a multilevel menu, by simply opening the menu, and then pressing the software's grab shortcut (such as Print screen), the multilevel menu is automatically crawled, while the on-screen elements that are unrelated to the menu are automatically stripped and appear in a transparent blank form (Figure 3).

Tips: No rice for cooking to take a multi-level menu. There is a way to do it if we don't have the grab software with the automatic menu grabbing function on hand. For example, we only have Windows 8.1 automatic screenshot function available, there is nothing, at this time, you can open the Windows drawing Tools, and then switch to crawl to the multi-level menu interface, using the Win+printscreen system key to grab a hotkey to the entire desktop to catch the Clipboard. Then go back to the paint editing window, perform the CTRL + V paste operation, and cut off all the scenes unrelated to the multilevel menu (Figure 4) with the box selection and crop button (or command ctrl+shift+x), and also get a screenshot of the multi-level menu we need.

　　3. Intercepting overlapping windows

Sometimes we have to show the different processes of software operation on a picture, but the previous picture disappears after clicking on the last picture. How to ensure that you can intercept before and after each picture, to achieve a picture show a number of steps?

To achieve this requirement, we can also use the drawing tool or any kind of image editing software. The idea is, first open a blank canvas, and then adjust the canvas size to our desired size (can be appropriate larger, redundant future can be cut, if too small can not accommodate all levels of Windows). Then step by step open to intercept the window, each open level on the interception level, timely paste into the image software. This way, when the last level of the window is crawled, the previous levels of windows are already lined up in the image software (Figure 5). Simply trim the composite picture in the image software and save it, or grab the software and grab it again from the window to get the composite picture we want.

Tip: Transparent window is not transparent interception. Windows 7 or Windows special Topics have a transparent window border that is visually good, but the screenshots are printed (especially in black and white) with poor results. If you want this kind of window to crawl after more beautiful, through the window "personalized → color" definition, the window border is defined as a less transparent style.

　　4. Screenshot Automatic Cutting edge

Some of the screen will leave a white edge or color edge, but if the manual accurate selection of location interception is also more trouble, especially when a large number of crawling pictures is so. Is there an automatic clipping method for cutting edges?

We can set the automatic cutting edge processing through the screenshot software. such as SnagIt software in the "effect → crop" setting, you can choose to automatically detect and crop the image around the solid color area, you can also customize to cut off the surrounding dimensions (Figure 6). After setting up the image, the crawl result will be the image of the edge cut off.