Gadgetory

hey everyone and welcome to another HD tutorial in this 1 i'll be showing you guys how to zoom in and take screenshots of your of your computer screen right now i'm using a 17 inch laptop but say i have a certain maybe i'm in a calculator and i got a weird funky number nothing special but i want to take a screenshot of it well there are several ways built into windows disk so that i can actually do this the first way is to go to your Start menu and type a snip SN IP and hit enter this will bring up say would you like to add it to your quick launch bar i'll just hit no but it says to drag the cursor around the area you want to capture so I'm just going to click and drag it's very intuitive BAM and it opened up in the snipping tool and that is exactly the screenshot that I just took and of course you can see it's still in the background I'll exit out so this is the built in windows vista snipping tool I can hit new at any time to take a new snip which I will just do random little snip of my rocketdock fall and show you guys that um I can go to file and say a new snip I can save this as a JPEG or an image I can also send this as an email attachment and I can as get out I can copy the image and paste it into samek slops word or paint if I wanted to edit it I can also edit this in GIMP or Photoshop under tools there's a a pen and a highlighter tool which is quite useful for may be circling something within your screenshot and you can also customize the thickness of and the color of your pen also under tools there's an eraser and a highlighter I'll show you the eraser real quick all you have to do if you have a pen mark sales try a circle show you guys something here of course that's not exactly accurate but that would be that would come under me using my customizing tool for the pen so now the eraser all I have to do is just hover right over it and well it's not working very well but um that it would be just easy to erase it real quick so um I'm going to take a new snip right now and just actually I'm going to a larger snip than I would actually need this comes in handy you actually want to edit your snip I'll go to edit and copy and I'm going to open up paint and I'm going to when in paint is open go control V to actually paste it so now you can see I have the snip in here I can crop it I can make it smaller I could take a certain part out and remove it etc so this is a really nice feature that they've built into Windows Vista that allows you to take screenshots now this is probably the best feature because it allows you to actually take a particular image the next thing you can do is to actually hit the print screen button on your keyboard which might be abbreviated PRT space SC basically when you click this when you hit this button BAM I've hit the button now I'll open up paint again and I will just go control V and paste that image and there you see my desktop ready for me to edit whatever I have to do if I want to crop it out for I want to open it in gimp I can do all these things and edit my desktop so that is basically two versions of how to take screenshots in Windows system so i hope you found this real helpful if you have any other suggestions then go ahead and subscribe and just send me a message and I'll get to it as soon as I can thanks for watching this