Photoshop Tips

Screen Capture Tips
After receiving a bunch of letters on how to do a Screen Capture, I've decided to show how. This can be very useful and I do it almost everyday. Great for giving a client a preview of their project or for showing your friends what's on the screen fast and easy. No software needed.
On PC
  • Whole Screen
    Open the application, website or file you wish to take a snap shot of. Press the Print Screen key on the keyboard as shown. Your capture is now stored in memory.

  • Active Window Only
    Have an active window on the screen. Now hold down Alt - Print Screen. Your capture is now stored in memory.

  • Viewing the Capture
    Open a paint program such as Photoshop or MS Paint. Now make a new file: File>New and click OK. Now go to Edit>Paste to paste the capture in the new document. When you get this far, move to "Cropping the image" below.

On Mac
  • Whole Screen
    Hold down Command - Shift - 3. This will place a file on your Startup hardrive and it should be found on the desktop as "Picture 1". If you take another capture, it will make another file called "Picture 2" and so on.

  • Cursor described rectangle
    Hold down Command + Shift + 4. This switches the pointer to a cursor. Select the area you want to capture with the mouse.

  • Active Window Only (or closest window)
    Hold down Caps lock - Command - Shift - 4.

  • Viewing the Capture
    Open a paint program such as Photoshop or Mac Paint. Go to File>Open and browse to the file on the desktop and open it. When you get this far, move to "Cropping the image" below.

  • Add Control to the key combinations above to send the captured image to the clipboard.

Cropping the image in Photoshop
Sometimes we want to remove application interfaces or backgrounds from the image. This can be done easy in Photoshop. 

After you paste or load your image in Photoshop, select the Rectangular Marquee tool. Now make a selection around the area that you want to keep.

Now go to Image>Crop.

Save and you are finished.

 

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