How to take screenshots in Windows 8 and Windows Phone: tricks and applications
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How many times have we felt like sending what we were seeing on our Windows 8 or Windows Phone desktop? Probably many times, but the solution is not to take a picture of the screen, so today we are going to explain how to take screenshots in Windows 8 and Windows Phone
To be able to take screenshots in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, there are different ways and methods that allow us to select, for example, only a region of the screen, or a window of a specific application. Here are some tricks.
Take screenshots from your Windows 8
There are different ways to take screenshots in Windows 8 Sometimes we will be interested in being able to capture the entire screen, or just a region of the screen, that will depend on our interests at that particular moment. Below I explain different steps to take a screenshot:
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- Old method: With this method that surely we all know, we can take full screen captures by pressing the Imp Screen key (on some keypads Prt Scr ) and then opening the Windows Paint program and pressing Ctrl + V or Edit Menu > Paste "
- Capture screen and save image directly: From Microsoft they want to make our work easier and for this there is another keyboard shortcut that allows us to capture screen and also directly stores the image of said capture in a directory.The keyboard shortcut that we must press is Windows key + Print Pant and in this way we will see how the screen darkens slightly and we will have our capture in our Images folder . On Windows 8 operating systems, the path to that folder is typically: C:\Users\(username)\Pictures\Screenshots or whatever same Images > Screenshots
- Capture only the application window: on some occasions we will be interested in obtaining a screenshot of only one window of an application that we are running, such as the Internet Explorer browser. To do this we will have to press the keyboard shortcut Alt + Imp Pant and then go to the Paint application and press Ctrl + Vto paste it. In this format we will only have the area of the screen that interests us. "
- Snipping Tool: Windows 8 incorporates a tool that many of you may not know about called Snipping Tool. If you open the search box using the Windows + S keyboard shortcut and look for Snipping Tool> In it we just have to click on New, we will see how the screen goes white, allowing us to select with the mouse the specific area that we want to capture, keeping the left mouse button. Then we can save the file in different formats."
Take screenshots from tablets or terminals with Windows Phone
In addition to needing to take screenshots on our desktop, laptop or even All In One computer, it can be useful to take screenshots on touchscreen devices, such as tablets or mobile phones, which also run our Windows 8 and Windows Phone operating systems.
The method that we must carry out to be able to capture the screen is very simple, we only have to press the Windows button at the same time that the volume down button is pressedgenerally located on the left side of our terminal. In this simple way we can capture the screen on our touch device, be it a surface tablet or a mobile phone.
We must be especially careful to press the volume down key correctly, since if we mistakenly press the volume up key , the Windows 8 event narrator will be activated, which will describe any event on our phone. To deactivate it we simply have to carry out the same process, press the lock Windows key and increase the volume.
With these simple steps we can capture the screen of our device under the Windows 8 or Windows Phone operating system and share it with our friends, through social networks or wherever we want, with great ease.
