misterfeet's blog: "How to Screen Capture"

Screen captures are very cool and a great way commemorate your fubar moments.... you see your blast, the first time you see a friend scroll on top of the screen, or your arch-enemy says something embarrassing that you want to blackmail them with later, a screen capture is a quick and easy way to keep that moment forever.  ok so the first thing you need to do is find the key that says PRT SC. it will be located at the top of your keyboard, to the right of the numbers. If you are using a laptop, you may notice that the PRT SC is inside a box or perhaps even blue. If this is the case, you will need to find a second key that is also with that box or blue, as shown. In this case, you would press both buttons at the same time. ok, now the moment of truth! Press the PRT SC button (and the 2nd key simultaneously if needed). Now, you are saying to yourself... "self, nothing happened. misterfeet is full of shit!" Not so, my friend. What to do now is to open up paint shop. You may have a photo program that is totally kick ass or much better than paint, but i've found that paint opens up so much faster than photoshop its just easier to do it this way. Oh, and if you have Windows, then you have paint too. Go to all programs, accessories, paint. Open up that program. Next step at the top of the page, hit edit, and paste. Wa la! You have now done a screen capture. This is rather large, so what i typically do is to box out the section of the screen that i really want to keep using the dashed rectangle tool.... Box out what you want to keep, and edit, cut, file, new, and paste again. there you go, this one is a keeper. save as a .jpg image :)