You just press that little button in the top right corner of the keyboard that says "Print Screen".

10/24/2007 11:41:18 PM

7/10

+2 points for completing a food safety course

10/24/2007 11:43:13 PM

I tried to do this for a movie

why didn't it work?

10/24/2007 11:43:59 PM

You have to turn off hardware acceleration on your video card or some shit.

google to the rescue.



[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 11:44 PM. Reason : Damn you for turning this into a seriousish thread! ]

10/24/2007 11:44:34 PM

did you mean screeprint? because that doesn't work. And Macs don't have that useless button.

10/24/2007 11:45:59 PM

I remember when the print screen button actually printed the screen

10/24/2007 11:46:16 PM

google "print screen in movie"

first link

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/capture-still-images-from-windows.html

10/24/2007 11:46:19 PM

^^^for macs: shift+apple+3 does the whole screen, shift+apple+4 does a selection

10/24/2007 11:46:37 PM

10/24/2007 11:47:37 PM

or just use Grab in your utilities folder. Best way to do it. You can drag a selection and take a snap shot. Or select a window and it only takes that window as a snap shot. Or the whole desktop.

10/24/2007 11:48:08 PM

they should just call the button "screen capture" or some shit

10/24/2007 11:49:38 PM

yeah but i don't wanna have to dig through my apps folder for something

shift+apple+4 lets you select a portion of the screen
that is good enough for me

10/24/2007 11:49:53 PM

Quote :

"they should just call the button "screen capture" or some shit"

well, as was pointed out earlier in the thread, the button actually did used to print the screen. to a printer.

it's like legacy or some shit.

10/24/2007 11:51:39 PM

I'm just kidding. I use my TV tuner card. It comes with software to cap anything

10/24/2007 11:52:04 PM

^^yeah but that's stupid

or some shit

[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 11:52 PM. Reason : .]

10/24/2007 11:52:05 PM

i laughed.

10/24/2007 11:53:01 PM

^^you edited just to put "or some shit" in there didn't you?

[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 11:54 PM. Reason : or some shit.]

10/24/2007 11:54:23 PM

Quote :

"or macs: shift+apple+3 does the whole screen, shift+apple+4 does a selection"

You can also press spacebar after apple-shift-4 to capture just a window OR a menu.

You can also hold down control to put the screen capture on the clip board instead of a file.

10/24/2007 11:55:27 PM

oh shit

you just got called the fuck out

10/24/2007 11:56:10 PM

Jesus Christ, I thought macs were supposed to be easy?

10/24/2007 11:56:28 PM

Quote :

"yeah but that's stupid or some shit"

What's stupid? this was back in the days before printer drivers, where you computer sent ASCII data to the printer, and the printer just reproduced it. It wasn't stupid at all.

10/24/2007 11:56:31 PM

It's stupid that they still call the button PRINT SCREEN when it doesn't do that anymore

[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 11:59 PM. Reason : OR SOME SHIT]

10/24/2007 11:59:06 PM

Well it depends on your terminology.

Cause I mean after your supposed "screen capture" my screen is still right there where it was before I hit the button.





or some shit.

10/25/2007 12:02:35 AM

^^ That I agree with.

That's because keyboard manufacturers are dumb and lazy, they should have changed that button a while ago.

Also, get a Mac

10/25/2007 12:09:14 AM

Quote :

"Also, get a Mac"

(don't do this)

10/25/2007 12:09:59 AM

if you're gonna bitch about this then bitch about return

a legacy of carraige return on typewriters

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 12:22 AM. Reason : vv that I do]

10/25/2007 12:10:16 AM

well this thread turned out approximately 731 times better than I originally thought it would.

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 12:18 AM. Reason : sidetracks and all]

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 12:18 AM. Reason : or some shit.]

10/25/2007 12:17:53 AM

^^ huh? don't you mean typewriters?

10/25/2007 12:19:39 AM

raep

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 2:26 AM. Reason : oops]

10/25/2007 2:26:04 AM

Quote :

"I remember when the print screen button actually printed the screen"

aha yeah, I remember that. It would print it from my dot matrix printer

10/25/2007 2:29:21 AM

i press the function key and the insert key

10/25/2007 2:31:12 AM

just a day at the office

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SvogCA972Ho

10/25/2007 2:33:17 AM

Like in Clear and Present Danger when harrison ford just pounds that PrntScrn button until it finally works..

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 2:34 AM. Reason : up 3 ^]

10/25/2007 2:33:59 AM

hey, ritter was lurking, he couldn't waste any time

10/25/2007 2:35:09 AM

^^ I had forgotten about that

10/25/2007 2:51:09 AM

damn im good

10/25/2007 4:06:55 AM

10/25/2007 4:51:25 AM