How to take a screenshot of my computer using snipping tool?

Taking a screenshot for use in blogs and other purposes is a very easy task. If you want to take the screenshot of the entire screen, as you know, simply press the 'PrtScn' Button on your keyboard. Open any image editing software (Eg. Photoshop,Paint,etc) and choose Edit > Paste. The key is located at the top right portion of the keyboard.
What will do if you want to select a particular portion of the screen and in a particular shape? Simple, use the above technique and edit (Crop) the image using any image editing software.
Is there any other 'simpler' method? Definitely Yes.
The Snipping Tool. From where it can be downloaded? There is no need to download anything yaar. It is there in Windows7. Choose Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping tool.

You will now see a small window with three buttons via, New, Cancel and Options. Click on the small down arrow mark in the 'New' Button. There a four Options.

1. Free form snip - draw a free form shape in the screen.
2. Rectangular snip - Drag the cursor to make a rectangular shape selection.
3. Window snip - capture the screen shot of a selected window only.
4. full screen snip - capturing the full screen

Select the appropriate option and drag around the object to get a screen shot.

In this way, you cannot make a screen shot of a menu. For that, Open Snipping tool, Press ESC and open the menu you want to take screen shot, Press Ctrl+PrtScn and then follw the above steps.

Now you will get the captured image in a separate window in which you can draw / write with different colored pen tools, apply color lines, etc.

After you are done. You can save the same using the Save Button.

Use send snip button to share the image through e-mail.

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