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Screen Image Capturing (for free)!

If you are lucky enough to be using Windows 7 or a Mac, you have

access to a free tool that you probably never knew about. Many

faculty are interested in taking screen shots for use in word documents

or inside their MyClasses course. For example, if you are creating a

detailed PowerPoint that refers to a particular website, you can take a

screen shot of that website for use in the presentation. Below is

information on how to use this tool (depending on the operating

system you use).

Windows 7 users:

1. Open Snipping Tool by clicking the Start b1on. In the

search box, type Snipping Tool, and then, in the list of reslts,

click Snipping Tool.

2. Click the arrow next to the New b1on, select Free-form

Snip, Rectangular Snip,Window Snip, or Full-screen Snip from

the list, and then select the area of yor screen that yo want to

captre. *After yo captre a snip, yo can write and draw on or

arond the snip in the mark-p window.

3. In the Save As dialog box, enter a name for the snip, choose a

location where to save the snip, and then click Save.

Mac OS users:

1. To captre the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3. The screen

shot will be atomatically saved as a PNG ﬁle on yor desktop.

2. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The

screen shot will be placed on yor clipboard for yo to paste into

another program.

3. To captre a portion of the desktop, pressCommand-Shift-4. A

cross-hair crsor will appear and yo can click and drag to select

the area yo wish to captre. 2hen yo release the mose b1on,

the screen shot will be atomatically saved as a PNG ﬁle on yor

desktop.

4. To captre a speciﬁc application window, pressCommand-Shift-4,

then press the Spacebar. The crsor will change to a camera, and

yo can move it arond the screen. As yo move the crsor over

an application window, the window will be highlighted.

5. Add Control to the two shortcts above to place the screen shot on

the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.