How do I "photograph" my desktop?

[Divinus Arma]

How do I obtain an image of whatever I have on screen at the moment? That may be an internet browser page, my desktop, or whatever...

:help:

I need it for an assignment!

[Big_John]

well, you can make a digital image by simply pressing the "PrntScrn" key (sometimes called "SysRq" or F13). this copies an image of the desktop to the clipboard, which you can paste into an image program (like photoshop or something).

[Kagemusha]

press alt+print Screen and then then open the photoshop or what picture wiever program you are using and copy the screenshot in new document.

EDIT:Oh crap Big John beat me.:wall:

[Divinus Arma]

Awesome! Now how do I reduce the amount of space it takes up? I want to make it consume less space without shrinking it or reducing the image quality. Can I do this?

I just pasted it to paint...

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I don't think you can do that without violating the foundations of computing. :inquisitive:

You can save it into a different format, though. JPEG (.jpg) is a pretty slim file type, althouth I would think that would reduce the quality superficially.

[Quietus]

Awesome! Now how do I reduce the amount of space it takes up? I want to make it consume less space without shrinking it or reducing the image quality. Can I do this?

I just pasted it to paint... For pictures, save as a .JPG format not .GIF, .BMP or .PNG

edit: Yah, what Alexander said (open the post a long while)

[Beirut]

The Frontroom - The repository of all human knowledge. :smug:

[yesdachi]

FYI – you can “paste” the Prnt Scrn into lots of programs, even MS Word. Just in case you don’t have Photoshop or another image editing proram.:bow:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The Frontroom - The repository of all human knowledge. :smug:

2nd only to the Sword Dojo :duel:

[Divinus Arma]

jpg. Oh that is sooo cool!

Genius! Sheer unadulterated Genius!!!

Removed: Too big!

[Beirut]

2nd only to the Sword Dojo :duel:

A lone voice echoes from the frosty wastes of The Frontroom's Canada Ops Center...

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/horsesass/arctic-day-13.jpg

[LeftEyeNine]

https://img239.imageshack.us/img239/1321/shmuck3no.jpg

[Proletariat]

So what does everybody's desktop look like? Here's mine, but I'm getting a little bored with the background.

https://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2250/desktop8hl.th.jpg (https://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop8hl.jpg)

[aw89]

EDIT: To lefteyenine

https://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9563/bunny0uw.jpg

(From somethingawfull, not forced shaving.)

[Husar]

https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3388/bg3du.th.jpg (https://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bg3du.jpg)
Originally it´s 1280*1024, the background is one of several to choose and I switch from time to time, they´re all the same design and made from screenshots + a photo as background by a Photoshop artist.~:)

[LeftEyeNine]

https://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3125/schmuck37ro.jpg

[Reenk Roink]

Here's mine

https://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5596/untitled15rk.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

As you can see, I love EB and have cropped their map to fit my potential conquests of Makedonia, Hellas, Italia, Illyria, and Thrakia with the Epeirotes.

I'm also doing a bit of modding, and my first archaic skinning job of Seleucid Companions, oh yeah, and I just downloaded the BF2 patch yesterday...

[Mikeus Caesar]

My desktop, in all it's cluttered, Nazi glory. I really need to remove some shortcuts.

No Nazi glory and no swastikas in the Frontroom - Beirut

EDIT: It was poking fun at Nazi's. I don't see what was wrong with it. I request that i be allowed to put it back.

[Quietus]

jpg. Oh that is sooo cool!

Genius! Sheer unadulterated Genius!!!

Removed: Too big! I answered the same question way back when made the .ORG Star Wars signatures....:idea2:

[Reenk Roink]

No Nazi glory and no swastikas in the Frontroom - Beirut

:laugh:

Beirut, you are the best mod...:2thumbsup:

[Ianofsmeg16]

I might as well join in...
https://img504.imageshack.us/img504/668/iandesk2tl.th.png (https://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=iandesk2tl.png)

I'm the ugly ******* on the left :2thumbsup: , i only have wierd things like paint on my desktop because i wanted to get a complete circle to frame the picture :laugh4:

[makkyo]

You can also use SnagIt.
It allows you to select certain parts of your screen, and it comes with it's own "photoshop" (though extremely simplified).
I have the trial version, and it's well worth it.