Have you ever looked wishfully at other blogs with those great graphics like a photo by photo version of how to do something or similiar graphics from websites.
Those are called "screen captures" and just as the name says, they're an actual capture or graphic of the computer screen.
There's a very simple, very easy, and FREE way to do that yourself using tools already present on most computers. This is the how to do it version for Windows XP.
Most keyboards have a button that says "Print Screen" which actually does just that.
On a standard QWWERTY keyboard it's usually located just to the right of the F-12 key. The thing you may not have known is that it prints it to your Windows clipboard.
So to capture a photo of your computer screen or screen capture, you first just hit the "Print Screen" key to save it to the clipboard.
I used Microsoft Paint which comes on most all computer to draw the red circle and insert the text. I then cropped the photo to the part I wanted it illustrate, saved it as a GIF, and then just dropped it into this blog like a regular photograph.
Quick, easy, and FREE.
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