How do I "photograph" my desktop?

**Divinus Arma** · 02-24-2006, 01:36

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...

I need it for an assignment!

**Big_John** · 02-24-2006, 01:44

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** · 02-24-2006, 01:46

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.

**Divinus Arma** · 02-24-2006, 02:17

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** · 02-24-2006, 02:25

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

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** · 02-24-2006, 02:48

Originally Posted by 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...

For pictures, save as a .JPG format not .GIF, .BMP or .PNG

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