How to create a web site screen shot or thumbnail of a webpage?

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Does anyone know how to create a simple screenshot of a webpage? I wanted to create a portfolio section kinda of showing off my work without make the visitor goto the site, or having to create a seperate logo. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks~!

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Have the page you want a screen shot of, in view. Then hit "alt" and "print screen" together. Then you open a photo editing program like Photoshop and paste the image in there. Crop it to the size you want...and...voila!

Brooke

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That's how you do it... Thanks Brooke. I used to know but I had forgotten.

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You can also just push the Print Screen button to capture a picture of your entire monitor. It is easier to do it the other way though...

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Consider going into fullscreen mode in IE (F11) and pressing the Printscreen button to take a nice capture.

ALT+PRINTSCREEN = Capture active window
PRINTSCREEN = Capture the entire screen, taskbar and all

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Aidan Bahta wrote: Consider going into fullscreen mode in IE (F11) and pressing the Printscreen button to take a nice capture.

ALT+PRINTSCREEN = Capture active window
PRINTSCREEN = Capture the entire screen, taskbar and all

Thanks for the F11 advice. I just learned something new. I love when that happens.

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Everyone assumes you are using a PC.

If you are using a Mac:

Control + Shift + 3 = entire screen
Control + Shift + 4 gives a cursor with which you can drag an area to select

In either case you will hear a click and a generic pict will be saved automatically in the boot hard drive folder.

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doren wrote: If you are using a Mac:

Control + Shift + 3 = entire screen
Control + Shift + 4 gives a cursor with which you can drag an area to select

If I'm not mistaken, on the Mac platform, the correct keystroke would be:

COMMAND + Shift + 3 : Entire screen shot
COMMAND + Shift + 4 : Selectable area screen shot

The good thing about Mac OS X is that your screenshot can be automatically saved as a .PNG or .PDF file. You can easily open such files in a graphic editing program like Photoshop. As PDF files, they're perfect to email or post online, since almost everyone's got Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on their systems.

David

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Now it looks like SearchBliss resurrected a 5-year old thread! There was a spammer was in here to bump it up first in case anyone is wondering.

F11 works in all major browsers AFAIK. Although in Firefox there's still a little bit of chrome. That is a good idea though.

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Coffeyman wrote: Does anyone know how to create a simple screenshot of a webpage? I wanted to create a portfolio section kinda of showing off my work without make the visitor goto the site, or having to create a seperate logo. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks~!

http://geovid.com/Screen_VidShot/

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