Create Screenshots In Windows With MS Paint

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:30:46 +0000

Most Windows users think of Microsoft Paint as a basic image editor that comes with the operating system. While that may be true for most there are artists out there that can do some pretty amazing things with Paint, but then again, they could probably do much better in advanced image editing programs like Paint.net or Adobe Photoshop.

MS Paint on the other hand is an excellent tool for creating a quick screenshot of either the whole computer desktop or a single application window. Yes, there are better programs out there like MWSnap, Screenshot Captor or PicPick, but Microsoft Paint is sometimes all one needs or got for that matter.

Windows users can take screenshots by pressing the Print screen on the keyboard, they can alternatively press Alt-Print if they want to take a screenshot of the active window instead. Laptop users often need to add the Function key or Ctrl for this to work.

The screenshot will be stored immediately in the Windows Clipboard. Please note that the clipboard only saves one entry which means that new screenshots will overwrite old ones, even text that is copied will overwrite the data in the Clipboard.

The easiest way to open Paint is to click the start orb and enter Paint in the run box. Pressing enter in the end will open the image editor. Windows XP users will need to click on run before they can start the Paint application.

Press CTRL-V in Paint to paste the screenshot into the editor.

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It is now possible to save the screenshot right away or edit it in Paint before doing so. All it takes to save the screenshot is to press Ctrl-S in Paint, this will open the File Save As dialog with an option to name the screenshot and select an image format for it (or keep the default png format).

And that’s all one needs to know how to create and save screenshots in Windows using Microsoft Paint.

Paint is a real image editor

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:46:31 +0000

For the average user Microsoft Paint is just a basic image editor with limited functionality. It never occured to me that artists could great pro images even with such a basic image editor. I probably would never get in contact with works of those artists if video sites such as Youtube would not exist. Thankfully they do exist and I was able to select some handpicked images that have been created with the Microsoft Paint image editor.

Time Lapse is used to reduce the lenght of the time it took to paint the image to just a few minutes. So, what can you expect to see ? Image editing at its finest: Witness how one artists creates the Mona Lisa in paint for instance. Other paint beautiful cars, John Locke from Lost, a simple face and a lowrider. Still think that MS Paint is no real image editor ?

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Create Screenshots In Windows With MS Paint

Paint is a real image editor