How to take a screenshot of a page. How to take a screenshot of a long page

Basically, a screenshot is needed to communicate with the service. technical support or to help someone yourself by showing what their program window looks like or for other very diverse uses.

Screenshot using Windows without programs

In the simplest case, we have enough operating room funds Windows systems 7/10. To take a screenshot, press the “Print Screen” key. It is located in the upper right part of the keyboard.

Please note that on some laptops the “PrtScr” key is combined with some other button. In this case, you need to press the combination “Fn + PrtScr”. But pressing this button itself does not lead to saving a screenshot, but simply copies the picture from the screen to the clipboard, just like you copy any text using the “Ctrl+C” buttons and then paste it using the “Ctrl+V” buttons.

To save the screenshot to a file we need standard editor Paint images. It can be launched from “Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Paint” or simply write the word “paint” in the search bar of the “Start” button and select a program from the drop-down list.

That's exactly what I do, because... it turns out faster than looking for a program in the rubble of the Start menu. Now in the Paint program, click “Paste” or the “Ctrl + V” button to paste the contents of the clipboard.

All that remains is to save the image to a file. To do this, click on the “floppy disk” and select where to save the file. I recommend choosing “JPEG” as the file format, because... it takes up the least space, but you can leave nothing and leave “PNG” as the default.

You can take a screenshot of the active program window. To do this, press the key combination “Alt + Print Screen”. And you can paste a picture from the clipboard not only into Paint, but also, for example, directly into Word document or in email Outlook.

So, the simplest algorithm of actions is this:

1. Press “Print Screen” or “Alt+Print Screen”
2. Let's launch Paint program
3. Paste the contents of the clipboard
4. Save the file

You can also easily screenshot the screen using standard utility Windows 7/8/10 “Scissors”. With its help, you can copy an arbitrary part of the screen. It's on the menu “Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Snipping Tool”.

Click the arrow on the “Create” button and select what we want to copy: freeform, rectangle, window or the entire screen. When we select the area, a window for editing and saving the finished screenshot will appear:

There is simple tools drawing "Pen" and "Marker". You can erase your creativity using an eraser. The Snipping Tool cannot create transparent PNG files, so it is better to save as a JPEG. What's happened transparent pictures I'll show you a little lower.

Send a screenshot to the cloud with one click

If you need screenshots more often than once a week, then it is better to install any program. In addition, the programs can immediately upload a screenshot to the cloud and provide a ready-made link to the picture.

The program is from a domestic developer, therefore it is completely in Russian and, of course, free. In addition, I checked it for viruses - everything is clean. During installation, you can disable loading Yandex elements:

Immediately after installation, a window with program settings opens, click “Save”, I’ll tell you about them a little later.

To send a link to a screenshot to a friend, simply press the Ctrl+PrtScr buttons. A characteristic click and a second darkening of the screen will mean that there is already a link to the screen in your clipboard! Check by inserting it into address bar browser:

It's so simple! And if you need to take a picture of a certain part of the screen, then just press the PrtScr button and select the area. When you release the mouse, the link to the photo will be in your clipboard!

Screenshot has a couple more trump cards in his pocket that other competitors do not have. If you are too far from reaching the keyboard or are too lazy, you can click on the program icon in the system tray, which is equivalent to pressing the PrtScr button:

And for some it will be more convenient to right-click on any empty space on the desktop and select the appropriate action in the context menu:

And everything is so simple, because programmers started making a program purely for themselves in order to get the functionality that is on Macintoshes - quick creation screenshots. And, I want to say, it turned out great.

A little about the settings

Every time you start the program, a window with settings appears:

By default, the hot buttons are: for the entire screen Ctrl+PrtScr, for an arbitrary area: PrtScr. In the settings, you can specify your own buttons if, for example, these are already used for other software. Next, we can determine where to save the screenshots.

By default, pictures are saved to hard drive and uploaded to own server Screenshot (so you can receive and send the link). Can only be limited hard drive(locally) or only by server. Please note that there are no restrictions on the number of files sent to the server. The folder in which the files will be saved on your computer can be specified just below. By the way, there is already a shortcut to it on your desktop.

And the last few settings:

In general, that’s all, in fact, even a teapot can figure it out, everything is simplified to the point of absurdity. After installation, the program goes into autorun and starts every time you turn on your computer or laptop. If you don't need this, then look at the article. By the way, we could include this option in the settings, as most developers do.

How to take a transparent screenshot

One more interesting program"PrtScr", which can take transparent screenshots, although it is English, but I’ll show you everything now.

What are transparent pictures? Let me show you with an example. I took two screenshots in different formats and superimposed them on another image in any graphic editor:

Right opaque JPEG format. As you can see, I have selected a random area, but it is framed by a rectangle (which is usually just white, but this program adds a little visible background). And on the left is a fragment that was saved into a transparent PNG file. It is applied as I outlined it, without a rectangular frame. Such files are very convenient and beautiful to overlay on other images, and in such a way that it will not be noticeable.

The PrtScr program “hangs” at the bottom in the form of an icon, by right-clicking on it you need to select “ Capture screen now".

after which the screen will change color, and the following prompt will appear on the right:

This means that: left button mouse selects a certain area of ​​the screen (hot buttons “Alt+Print Screen”), when Ctrl is pressed, a rectangle will be highlighted, and with the right button you can simply draw on the screen and then select the desired area. If you just click anywhere, you can take a photo of the entire screen. Hot buttons “Ctrl+Print Screen” enable a magnifying glass with very large magnification, where you can use Ctrl to select an area of ​​the screen with pixel precision.

When we select the area, a window for saving the results will appear:

Here's what's interesting here:

• Save as... - save to file. If you used a random selection, then in order for the picture to turn out transparent, you need to save it in PNG format, not JPEG. In this case, on the “Settings” tab there should be a checkbox “Transparent PNG” (by default it is there). Otherwise use "JPEG".
• Email... - send by mail using mail program default
• Edit… - edit in the Paint program
• Print… - print on a printer
• To clipboard – copy to clipboard
• Discard – delete screenshot

LightShot - editing on the fly

Sometimes you need to immediately add something to the screenshot, write some text, or erase part of the image. For such cases, I recommend the LightShot program.

LightShot is as easy as other programs, but after selecting an area, a simple editor appears in which you can draw with a pencil, marker, put lines, arrows, rectangles or write text.

Conclusion

As you can see, everything is very simple. Available as standard Windows features, so various applications with its own merits. Decide for yourself which method to use. I also think you will find it very interesting to read. If you liked the article, then share it with your friends on social networks!

And now a video with a visual “debriefing”

Many times I have seen images on the Internet that show the entire site from start to finish. The need for such a picture arises when it is necessary to visually assess what your website or its entire individual page will look like. But standard built-in tools operating system, in particular the function of the key " Prt Scr» copies to the clipboard only visible part, either the whole screen, or active window(combination " Alt+Prt Scr«).

Screenshot (screenshot, screenshot or screenshot, English screenshot) is an image obtained by a computer and showing exactly what the user sees on the screen of a monitor or other visual output device. Usually this digital image obtained by the operating system or other program at the user's command.
The easiest way to take a screenshot for operating systems Microsoft Windows- usage PrtScr keys(for the entire screen) or combinations Alt keys+ PrtScr (for current window) on the keyboard. In this case, the image is copied to the operating system clipboard and can then be pasted and, if necessary, edited in any graphic editor, for example, Paint, which is included in the standard set Windows applications. Additionally, in most cases, a snapshot can be inserted into word processor, For example Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer.
(material from Wikipedia)

In order for the image of the entire page, no matter how large it is, to be in one picture (in one file), you must use the following recommendations.

How to take a screenshot of the entire website

Everything is simpler than it seems. I found two free solutions:

You will now receive good advice and the full “layout”: How to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer. We'll tell you and show you everything. And even step by step, together with us, you will make your first screen.

Let's start with what kind of word is “screenshot”? It happens that you urgently need to send a friend via computer the location of an object on the map. But I don’t have a photo at hand, and I can’t find it in Yandex and Google image searches.

Or if you are engaged in online business, and some technical support requires a screenshot of what is happening from you. Here, no matter how you look at it, the need arose: how to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer.

And computer gamers consult with each other and show how they managed to triumphantly overcome the pitfalls in the game.

In general, it will be useful for many to learn how to take a screenshot.

Now we will show you an overview of the most popular programs to take screenshots. With these necessary things, you can scan your computer screen as a picture (image) yourself and for free.

• Using standard Windows tools and buttons print screen»
• Special programs to take a screenshot
• Using the browser you are using

How to take a screenshot on a Windows 7 computer and where to find it

This is the simplest way, but not the easiest. The advantage of it is that it is always at hand, there is no need to download or use special programs. The downside is that in addition to the fact that you need to press a button on the keyboard, you will need a number of other actions to get a screenshot of the screen and find it.

Now to the point. If you need to take a screenshot of the screen on a Windows 7 computer (Windows 7), you will first need one action, or rather a button - the “PrtSc” (Print Screen) or “Psc” or “PrtnScn” key, depending on what you have on your keyboard.

If you don’t find it, if there is no “print screen” button, don’t despair, use an electronic keyboard. This is not a problem - press “Win” + “U” at the same time. Jumps out standard window Windows, select "keyboard" and turn on " electronic keyboard».

Where can I find the screenshot I took and where is it saved?

By default, after you take a screenshot of the screen on your computer, Windows saves it in the “clipboard”. Do not try to find the screen yourself and do not find out where it is saved - just know that your “snapshot” is already in the computer’s memory.

Instructions on how to take a screenshot on a computer using a standard Windows program

1. Press the “print screen” button when found the desired picture. It is usually located on the right top corner at "F12".
2. Open standard graphics program"Paint". How? Click “Start”, then either type “Paint” into the search box, or select “All Programs”, then “Accessories” and “Paint”.
3. Will open graphic editor. In the left corner, click “Paste” or the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + V”. And your picture will appear from the “clipboard”.
4. If you don’t need to do anything with the screenshot you took, then save it. How? In the upper left corner there is a blue square (“File”) - click it and select “Save As”. I recommend saving in PNG format.
5. After you have selected the “image format”, a window will pop up in which you indicate to the computer where you want to save the “screen”. All.

If you want to edit the resulting image: crop it or make changes (text, for example), then this is easy to do in “Paint”.

Know that when you combine the “PrtSc” (Print Screen) and “Alt” buttons, the system will save only the active window to the clipboard, not the entire monitor image, but part of it. These are ordinary dialogue or reminder Windows windows: Like "Are you sure you're going to delete all your images?" warnings when you empty the Trash folder.

How to take a screenshot on a Windows 7 computer using the standard Snipping Tool

Windows 7 has a “scissors” tool that you can use to cut out an area of ​​the screen on your computer.

1. Again “Start”, then “All programs”, “Standard”, and “Scissors”.
2. The picture on the display will turn white and a window will appear where you need to click on “Create”.
3. Using the mouse, you move the cursor - you indicate, as it were, the area that you need for the screenshot.
4. A new window will appear where you click “File” and “Save As” in the upper left corner.
5. Choose a place to place the screen and give it a name. All.

We didn’t find anything characteristically different from how to take a screenshot on Windows 10 or another Windows. In both cases, the screen is easy and simple to prepare using standard programs utilities that are included in every set of operating systems.

Moreover, you can do without any programs at all.

As mentioned above, in order to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer on Windows 10, you need to turn your attention to the keyboard and find on it special keys Win + Print Sc SysRq (Win + PrtScr). And then, using a combination, click on them - the image on the monitor will darken a little and Windows will instantly take a screenshot and place your screen in a folder.

Where can I find it? – you ask. And here everything is easy and simple. It is located in the Screenshots folder in operating folder"Image". Open and see the screenshots you created.

Useful advice for those who use Windows 10: you can also take a screenshot using combinations Windows keys(with flag) and "N" (English). IN this method the program will take and save a screenshot in the cloud. And it will give you a list of applications with which you can send the picture by email or edit it in an online service.

What to do if there is no such “magic” “print screen” button on the keyboard?

How to take a screenshot if there is no “print screen” button? Or a screenshot program

There is a solution for this method as well.

The most basic thing is to select the “electronic keyboard” and repeat the necessary steps step by step. There is another option using specialized programs.

To be honest, there are a lot of such utilities. And even we haven't tried all of them. But we definitely know that taking a screenshot of the screen with their help is not much effort. It’s all quite simple: you need to download the program to your computer, run it and take a “screen capture” - a photo.

Programs for screenshots

• Lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/ru/index.html)
• Screenshoter (https://screenshoter.rf/)
• FastStone Capture (http://www.faststone.org/download.htm)
• Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/download.php) – takes screenshots in games
• PicPick (http://ngwin.com/picpick)
• Clip2Net (http://clip2net.com/ru/)
• Screenshot of Joxi (http://joxi.ru/lander/)
• Paparazzi (https://derailer.org/paparazzi/) – Mac only

Online services for saving screenshots

• PasteNow (https://pastenow.ru/)
• Makescreen (https://makescreen.ru/chrome)
• Snapito (https://snapito.com/) – you can send pictures to Pinterest
• Web Capture (https://web-capture.net/ru/)
• IMGonline (https://www.imgonline.com.ua/website-screenshot.php) – Ukrainian service
• S-shot (https://www.s-shot.ru/)
• ScreenPage (http://screenpage.ru/)

As you understand, you don’t need to download anything. Simply select and copy the link where you want to take a photo, paste it into a special field in the online tool and edit as you please - save it to your computer.

Take a screenshot using your browser

The browsers themselves will help you on how to take a screenshot of the screen on your computer. There are apps and extensions for everyone search engines: “Yandex”, “Opera”, “Google”, “ Mozilla Firefox"and others.

Today, the leading Yandex, Opera, Google, and Mozilla Firefox in our country already have a page capture function built into the settings.

How to take a screenshot using the Lightshot program?

Let’s look at “Lightshot” as an example; we use it very often. By the way, I took this picture above using “Lightshot”.

1. Download the program for free from the official website. (There are no viruses, don’t worry - everything is clean)
2. Install (the program always starts along with the computer, along with Windows).
3. An icon appears in the upper right corner - an image of a lilac-violet “feather”.
4. When you need to take a screenshot of the screen, click on this “pen”.
5. The display will dim and you will be asked to select an area to take a photo.
6. Right-click and drag the frame to the desired size.
7. At the bottom and side of this frame there are additionally located useful features, including for saving a screenshot. (Dealing with the additions will not be any problem. Schoolchildren do everything “with a kick.”

Video - how to take a screenshot step by step on a laptop or computer:

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Take a screenshot screen very easy using the default keyboard commands. But, if you want to take a screenshot entire page in the browser, and not just the visible area of ​​the screen, then you will need special tools and a few extra clicks.

There are at least 4 ways to take a screenshot of an entire web page:

Zoom out the page and use default keys

This quick way This will only work if the page extends only slightly beyond the visible area of ​​the screen. Zoom out the page until it fits completely on the screen, and then take a screenshot using the default commands:

• Windows: Press a keyPrint Screen (PrtScr or Print Scrn). The screenshot will be saved to the clipboard. To insert this image into a file, use any graphics editor.
• Mac : Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Shift-3. By default, the screenshot will be saved as PNG file on your desktop.

Programs for taking screenshots

You can install one of special programs to take screenshots on your computer. For example, I tried Snagit by Techsmith (both Windows and Mac), FastStone Capture (the program is only available for Windows) and Paparazzi (Mac only). When choosing, please note that some of these programs are not free. Share links in the comments if you know of other similar applications.

Online tools for taking screenshots

If you don't want to install anything on your computer, you can use one of these web tools to take a screenshot of the entire page directly in your browser: Snapito, Screenshot Machine or Web-capture.net . They all work in a similar way: just paste the URL desired page in the appropriate field on the service page.

Browser extensions

This is my favorite way to take screenshots of pages. No need to switch to another tab or launch separate application– less clicks!

Perhaps many have already encountered situations where sites prohibit selecting and copying text from pages, or prohibit saving posted images using the “Save image as...” command, giving a 1x1 pixel GIF file for saving instead of the image you need. Such restrictions can always be circumvented if you know the entire web page.

Most computer users know that screenshots can be easily taken using the “PrintScreen” key. But taking screenshots using the “PrtScr” key is not always convenient. After all, this command creates a screenshot only of what you see on the screen. And web pages, as a rule, have where larger size than one screen.

So, taking a screenshot of a web page with one click is easy if you are a user FireFox browser. It is enough to install a small free add-on to it – “Pearl Crescent Page Saver”.

To install this add-on, go to official page programs:

Don’t be scared by the fact that the page is in English, the program itself is Russified.

Next, find the “Install Page Saver Basic” link, click it and wait for the add-on to load. When prompted by your browser, confirm the installation by clicking the “Install Now” button. After installing the add-on, the browser must be restarted.

When FireFox starts, you will see a new button appear on the toolbar:

You will also find two new items in the context menu - “Screenshot of the visible part of the page...” and “Screenshot of the entire page...”. To call context menu right click (right mouse button) on free space in FireFox and you will see:

The program is ready to work, but it is still better to configure it before use, for your own convenience. Open the program settings as shown in the figure.

In the settings on the “Basic” tab, select the main action for the button; in our example, “Take a screenshot of the entire page” is selected. Here you can also set a keyboard shortcut for quickly executing a command () - place the cursor in the “Shortcut” field and press the desired keyboard shortcut.

On the “Create a screenshot” tab, you can use variables to set the file name and immediately see how future screenshots will be named. The variables themselves are written here. So that you are not tormented by the question: “ Where can I find screenshots? select the folder where the screenshots will be saved. By default, the Windows user profile folder is set to “Pictures”.

The program settings are made and now the browser is ready to take screenshots. By clicking on a button or a keyboard shortcut, you will receive an image of part or all of the web page in the .JPG or .PNG format of your choice. Next, you can do with the image everything that your existing photo editor can offer you, or perform text recognition using the appropriate application.