I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
this?

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 0924 -0500, Rick <rick@invalid.net> wrote:

>I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
>area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
>to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
>this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
>domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
>this?

I have had good experiences with Gadwin Print Screen (free):

http://www.download.com/Gadwin-Print...-10123018.html

Hi Rick,

Have you tried the included snipping tool?

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"Rick" <rick@invalid.net> wrote in message
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> I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
> area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
> to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
> this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
> domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
> this?

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 0924 -0500, Rick <rick@invalid.net> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
> area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
> to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
> this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
> domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
> this?


First of all, note that no special software is required to get just
the active window. PrtScrn captures the whole screen, and Alt-PrtScrn
captures the active window.

It captures it to the clipboard, but if you want a .jpg file, just
past it into a program like Paint, and then save it as a .jpg file.

If you want a part other than the active window, you need special
software. One free choice is the gadget called "Snaper" that goes on
the sidebar. But I haven't used this and can't comment on how easily
or how well it works.


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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 0909 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi Rick,
>
>Have you tried the included snipping tool?

Few people know it's there, so odds are very low.

To the OP: Google "using snipping tool".

Rick wrote:
> I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
> area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
> to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
> this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
> domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
> this?


By design, as it has always been with every version of Windows,
pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display, including the
Desktop Wallpaper, to the clipboard (iow, into RAM). Pressing
<ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to the clipboard. To view
the screen capture, open a graphics program, such as MS Paint, and press
<CTRL>+V. This will paste the contents of the clipboard (your
screenshot) into the open file, and allow you to view it or save it as a
file for later use.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;173884

If a particular screen shoot contains more of the screen than you like,
you can always use Paint to crop it. No need for a 3rd party
application, unless you're going to be doing extensive manipulations of
the resulting images. A somewhat more advanced, free graphics program
that you might find useful, should Paint prove to be too rudimentary, is
IrfanView, http://www.irfanview.com.


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Once you've pasted the image in Paint you can then select the part you want
and make that a new image, or open in another imaging software package and
crop the jpg to just the part you want.


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 0924 -0500, Rick <rick@invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of only a certain
>> area of my screen such as the active window, and save it
>> to a .JPG or something similar. I know Snag-It does
>> this but it's $50. Is there something in the public
>> domain or less expensive that someone can recommend for
>> this?
>
>
> First of all, note that no special software is required to get just
> the active window. PrtScrn captures the whole screen, and Alt-PrtScrn
> captures the active window.
>
> It captures it to the clipboard, but if you want a .jpg file, just
> past it into a program like Paint, and then save it as a .jpg file.
>
> If you want a part other than the active window, you need special
> software. One free choice is the gadget called "Snaper" that goes on
> the sidebar. But I haven't used this and can't comment on how easily
> or how well it works.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup