In the process of our daily use of computers, in order to facilitate the writing of some articles, or for the entire collection of certain materials, or because certain pictures are of great significance to us, at this time we often need to Save some important information. At this time, taking screenshots becomes crucial. Then we may have such questions, such as how to take a screenshot? What are the shortcut keys for taking a screenshot? How to set the shortcut keys? How to save the screenshot after taking it? The editor will answer these questions below.
Method/Step 1 Capture the full-screen shortcut key
Capture the full-screen shortcut key and press Print Scr Sysrq. The keyboard with a numeric keypad is to the right of F12, and the keyboard without it is also near F12. After pressing this button, there is no reaction. Just press Ctrl+V where you want to paste the screenshot and it will be automatically generated.
Method/Step 2: Capture the current active window
To capture the current window, press Alt + Print Screen SysRq. The current active window refers to the open interface, such as the QQ chat interface. Similarly, after pressing this button, there will be no reaction. Just press Ctrl+V where you want to paste the screenshot and it will be automatically generated.
Method/Step 3 Freely capture the window size
Use QQ or YY for assistance. Log in to these common chat tools and press shortcut keys to take screenshots freely. In the pop-up window, you can choose to save the icon or paste it directly. Shortcut keys can be set by yourself in the hotkey settings of the settings. Before any settings are made, the default QQ shortcut key is Ctrl+Alt+A. YY's free screenshot shortcut key needs to be set by yourself.
For example, for QQ, we set the screenshot shortcut keys according to the interface display. For example, we directly set F1 is the shortcut key, then we can directly press the F1 key when capturing the screen. You can take free screenshots by pressing F1 directly after logging into QQ.
For YY assistance, we can click on the YY client avatar to bring up the hotkey setting window for settings. For example, the icon directly sets Ctrl+A as the screenshot shortcut key. Just press the Ctrl+A keys directly at the capture screen. After setting up, just press the Ctrl+A keys to complete the free screenshot.
Method/Step 4: Use special screenshot software to take screenshots
The first step is to search for suitable screenshot software. The following uses the screenshot software Red Dragonfly as an explanation. The second step is to download and install. The installation can be carried out step by step, and I won’t go into details here. After installation is complete, click the desktop shortcut to open the software. First decide whether you want to take a free screenshot or a screenshot of the active window. Follow the shortcut key (you can set it yourself here). After the screen changes, select the area yourself. After selecting, an operation window will automatically pop up, and you can perform specific commands such as save as-copy-paste, etc. Just select according to your needs. (Other operations for selecting the current active window, fixed area, etc. are also similar)
Precautions
The saving path of the captured pictures must be standardized and can be specially created. A folder to manage.
In summary, there are many ways to use computer shortcut keys to take screenshots, and we can also use some software To set hot keys, these methods play a considerable role in the use of computers. Keeping in mind these shortcut key setting methods, when we see our favorite pictures or important information, we can take a screenshot of the information to save it. We will need to use this information in the future. Just copy and paste to complete the input and editing.Editing is very convenient.