Seven common ways to screen screenshots

One, grab movie picture

Said to grasp the screen, of course, the most first thought is the film, MV in the classic image of the capture, want to save the wonderful picture; If you use the keyboard "Printscreen key" to snap, because the movie when the DirectDraw function acceleration Video, And DirectDraw itself does not support the use of the "Printscreen key" to grasp the screen, so the only player interface, the picture shows a dark. At this point, as long as in the desktop "properties → settings → advanced → troubleshooting" to the "hardware acceleration" to turn off acceleration, and then the normal play the movie and then press the Printscreen key to grasp the picture.

Tip: If the feeling is off the DirectDraw after the quality can not meet the requirements, many players have their own screen capture function, and the use of is super simple. Other than that.

If you are accustomed to using the Printscreen key, you can expand the following branch in the Registry Editor: [Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftdirectdraw], and create a new DWORD value in the window on the right. and rename it to "Enableprintscreen". Double-click to modify its numeric data to "1" in the pop-up Edit dialog box, and clicking the OK button.

　Second, crawl the current window

Holding down the ALT key and pressing the Printscreen key can only hold the current active window down. This operation is convenient for a particular need, only want to crawl the current active window, the use of this method is quite appropriate.

　Third, crawl cascading menu

In the process of writing, inevitably "to Tudevin" "illustrations", especially on the cascading menu narrative, a screenshot is better than words. However, if you want to use the method of grabbing the current window to catch the cascading menu is not: The menu will disappear when you press the ALT key. At this point you can press the Printscreen key to crawl full screen, and then paste into the graphics processing software for later processing. If you use the drawing tool, you can use the square selection tool to "select" and "Cut" the part you want, and then press Ctrl+e to open the properties screen to set the values in width and height to a small amount, and then paste and save it.

Tip: If the value in properties is larger than the clipped picture, a white extra background appears after paste, so you need to decrease its value.

　Four, Printscreen key + Drawing tool, crawl full screen

Whether you are using a desktop computer or a laptop, there is a Printscreen button on the keyboard, but many users do not know what it is used for, in fact it is the screen capture the "shutter"! When pressed, the system automatically saves the current Full-screen screen to the Clipboard, whether it is a classic screen, Or your heroic moments in the game, a key to fix, and then open any graphics processing software or QQ Chat window to support the location of the pasted pictures, paste can be seen after the capture of the picture, support Save As.

Tip: The Printscreen key is generally located on the right side of F12.

　　The use of QQ screenshot screen easy to grasp the map

The Earth people all know QQ is used for chatting, in fact it's grasping the chart function is also very outstanding, practical: When sees any interesting picture on the net, may use it quickly to capture after sends the chat friend, has avoided sends the chat friend link to be suspected is the QQ tail virus embarrassment.

(i) capturing static pictures

Click the Capture screen icon in the Chat window, and a "screenshot" window appears at the top of the screen that shows how to do it (Figure 5). Now just hold down the left mouse button in the area of the screen you want to capture and carefully drag out a rectangular box to include what you need. Finally, double-click the left mouse button in this rectangular box to perform a screenshot, then paste directly into the chat window to send to each other, you can also open the system with the paint, select "Edit" "paste", and then use some drawing tools for simple editing processing, copy, paste to the Chat window to send to each other.

Tip: Please carefully look at the prompt window, which prompts: "Current pixel rgb (digital)", which is the current mouse pointer to the color code of the screen! If you find a good color, you can write down this digital code and apply it to your own programming or Web page production.

Perhaps you will find that if you want to activate the QQ capture screen function, you need to open the Chat window, while the mouse can not carry out other operations, very inconvenient. In fact, QQ also provides the shortcut key function: Ctrl+alt+a. When the desired content is in the best position to capture, you can press the fast-intercept button to activate this function, according to the above operation. If you catch the content with a cascading menu, pressing this shortcut will cause the menu to disappear. In fact, you can press Ctrl+alt+shift+a, and then activate the cascading menu, release the Shift key to activate the capture function, the operation is the same as described earlier.

(ii) Capture film images

In addition to the QQ can capture the static picture function, but also can capture the static movie, the dynamic movie. However, in order to get a better capture effect, you can start by setting: In the Capture Screen drop-down menu, select "Movie screenshot Settings", you can set detailed interception of dynamic picture width, each capture frame, the time interval of each frame and dynamic picture playback speed. Suggestions as long as a slight adjustment on it, if the adjustment of too much, although the effect of the film is good, but the system's resources occupy, transmission speed is certainly slow.

Usage: As long as the "Capture screen" drop-down menu to select the appropriate function, and then the normal playback of the film, to the wonderful place to press the ScrollLock key, the chat window will appear constantly refreshed movie screen, just press the "send" let chat friends also enjoy. It is to be noted that this feature only supports movies played by WindowsMediaPlayer, not realone movies. Of course also support DV film clips, support RM format, but need to give your WMP install support RM format file plug-ins.

Tip: If you right-click on the video you receive, choose Save As to save the picture in GIF format and, of course, the animation effect.

　Six, DOS screen easy to catch

Above we are introduced in the windows of the capture method, but to the pure dos to capture the picture how to do? It's not complicated! It can be achieved with the help of Pixelpop software.

Unzip the downloaded file to a partition, such as F:AA. into a pure DOS state, use the "CD" command to enter the folder, and type "INSTALL" to install the software under "F:pixelpop". Enter the folder, enter "PP" can run Pp.dat file to start running, according to the screen prompts to grasp the shortcut key is "Shift+printscreen", when the need for the screen as long as you press this shortcut will be in the Software installation directory to generate the beginning of the GIF file, Every time you press the hotkey to generate one, the serial number starts from 00 increments, such as Screen00.gif, SCREEN01. GIF and so on.

Tip: When you don't need this software, you can type "PP/R" to uninstall from memory.

　　Vii. virtual machines: nothing to catch

We introduced the Windows and Dos capture method, but some screenshots can not be implemented, such as the BIOS setup interface, BIOS refresh interface, Windows system installation process and other pictures. Since these pictures are not running on the desktop operating system, they can only be done with the help of virtual machine software.

The most common virtual machine software has two kinds: VIRTUALPC and VMware, as long as the use of virtual machine software, the above mentioned scratching problems are solved: when the desired screen, you can use the Printscreen key directly to grasp the picture! In addition, you can click the menu in VMware File → crawl screen image command, you can save the boot screen, BIOS interface, operating system installation interface, such as special interface.

The above is a more commonly used screen capture method, without borrowing professional software, you can meet the majority of user screenshots of the needs, simple and convenient. Whether you want to retain the classic moment, or want to grab a heroic moment, can be timely and rapid implementation.