
However, this option is only available in Windows 8 and Windows 10. This will save to a folder called Screenshots in your Pictures folder. You can also press Win + PrtSc to instantly take a screenshot and save it as a file. Press Alt + PrtSc to capture only the active window, which works in all modern versions of Windows. If you have multiple monitors, PrtSc will capture all of them, which isn't very useful. From there, you can crop and edit your screenshot in Paint as needed. Thus, simply open Microsoft Paint (or another image editing app) and press Ctrl + V to paste the screenshot into the editor. Windows saves the screenshot to the Screenshots folder in your Pictures folder. You can't see the Windows clipboard, but you can paste its contents into any app. Press Windows + Print Screen (PrtScrn) to take a full-screen screenshot on Windows 10. Jing is the program we will use to capture our screenshots and save them to our. When you press this key, the entire contents of your screen are copied to your clipboard, a temporary storage location for copying and pasting. A screenshot is an image of the visible items displayed on your computer. On a laptop, you may have to hold the Fn key in combination with another key to activate Print Screen. Depending on your computer, this may be labeled PrtSc or something similar. There's another important thing to consider too, and something a table can't capture (ha!) is the usability of each product.The most basic way to take a screenshot in Windows is to hit the Print Screen key on your keyboard. Plus it's important to note that I'm kind comparing apples and oranges here, as Jing never set out to be an all-inclusive screen capture product. (The screenshot is saved in the Screenshots folder in the Pictures folder.) To capture all active windows: Press the PrntScrn key.

On tablets, press the Windows logo button + the volume down button together.

So on options, Skitch is the clear winner, but that ability to record quick video with Jing is a damn good reason to keep it around. To capture the entire screen: Press the Windows logo key + PrntScrn key together. Here's a chart comparing some of the features of each: To capture the entire screen: Press the Windows logo key + PrntScrn key together. But they each do a whole lot more as well. Enter Jing: Also by Tech Smith, Jing simplifies the art of screen capture/sharing and has really big and easy-to-use buttons, which makes using it daily to help improve your marketing doable for. I almost didn't bother with this post after running a quick Google search on Jing vs Skitch and finding nearlyġ,000 results, but I went through a fair number and couldn't find anything that actually compared them side by side, so I went ahead.īoth Jing and Skitch are free (currently) programs for Mac OS X that allow the user to take and then annotate a static screen shot.
