Not as smart as I wish I was

[lar_laughs]

I know I should know this but all this time away from the Mac has made me stupid once again...

IS THERE A WAY TO TAKE A SCREEN CAP WITHOUT A MAC KEYBOARD?

Now it's just starting to irritate me!

Comments

[fox-murphy.livejournal.com]

As in, how to take screen caps on a general keyboard? I think for that you just use the Print Screen button, but I have no non-Mac here to check that with.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

What application do you put it into after you use the Print Screen button? I think that's actually my difficulty.

On the regular keyboard, there isn't a Mac button which has been my sticking point for a couple of different things so far. I keep meaning to get a new keyboard but I do love my ergonomic keyboard.

[meridian_rose]

use print screen the just paste the image from the clipboard into any open program such as Paint, Photshop or even Word, that can handle graphics :)

Vista comes with a snipping tool (one of few good things re Vista) and a free download by Traction Software called Screengrab Pro lets you grab screens or parts of screens and save them as jpegs.

[meridian_rose]

ah, sorry, misunderstood. You have a mac. There might be similar software though worth downloading if you do a lot of screengrabs.

[aryas_zehral]

I do it by Ctl+ Print Screen and then pasting it into Paint but I don't know what system you're using.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that Mac had a paint program. I'll go looking for it. Thanks!

[aryas_zehral]

I don't know if it does. But anything that you can paste images into should work. Should being the operative word.