print screen

[Guest]

When I use the printscreen key, it doesn't copy anything on my screen. I've
tried it several times and tried pasting it into photoshop, nothing was
copied. I've tried both pressing it by itself and doing Alt + Prt Sc. Nothing
works. This is driving me nuts!!! Why won't it work??

 

[Richard Urban]

Open paint. Go to edit | paste, or enter ctrl+V on the keyboard. Then go to
file | save as, and save in your desired format. You can then import the
file into Photoshop.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Nope, that didn't work either. *frown*

Open paint. Go to edit | paste, or enter ctrl+V on the keyboard. Then go to
file | save as, and save in your desired format. You can then import the
file into Photoshop.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Nope, that didn't work either. *frown*

Open paint. Go to edit | paste, or enter ctrl+V on the keyboard. Then go to
file | save as, and save in your desired format. You can then import the
file into Photoshop.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Sharon F]

When I use the printscreen key, it doesn't copy anything on my screen. I've
tried it several times and tried pasting it into photoshop, nothing was
copied. I've tried both pressing it by itself and doing Alt + Prt Sc. Nothing
works. This is driving me nuts!!! Why won't it work??

Do you have a keyboard with an F-Lock key? If yes, try pressing that key.
Then try the steps for a screen capture.

After pressing the Print Screen (or ALT+Print Screen) to capture the
screen, open Paint. It opens with a blank paint canvas automatically. Use
one of the Paste methods to insert the image in the blank canvas.
Personally, I click Edit and then Paste command in Paint's menu bar.

 

[Ken Blake]

When I use the printscreen key, it doesn't copy anything on my
screen. I've tried it several times and tried pasting it into
photoshop, nothing was copied. I've tried both pressing it by itself
and doing Alt + Prt Sc. Nothing works. This is driving me nuts!!! Why
won't it work??

It does work, just not the way you expect it to.

Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the screen. But in
all versions of Windows, this works differently, and the name of the key is
now an anachronism.



To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire screen, or press
alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active window. Either one captures
the image to the Windows clipboard. Once it's in the clipboard you can paste
(Ctrl-V) it into any application that supports graphics (Windows Paint,
other graphics programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or
add to the image as you wish, then print it.



This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing it is an
improvement over the original DOS method of just printing it. But if you'd
like that old facility back, there are several third-party
freeware/shareware programs that can do this, such as PrintKey2000
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).