Show Us Your Desktop

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:00 am

We haven't done this in a while.

How to: to capture your desktop, while you're looking at it, press the PrtScr (Print Screen) key on your keyboard, paste it into a program like Paint, save it and upload it here like any other attachment.

Mine:

Attached files

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:49 am

RedGlitter;952095 wrote: We haven't done this in a while.

How to: to capture your desktop, while you're looking at it, press the PrtScr (Print Screen) key on your keyboard, paste it into a program like Paint, save it and upload it here like any other attachment.

Mine:
I dont have a PrtScr key on my keyboard. :-1

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:25 am

abbey;952115 wrote: I dont have a PrtScr key on my keyboard. :-1I have.....but still cant do it

-1

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:29 am

Abbey- I don't know why you don't have that key. I thought it was standard. Can anyone help??

Carol- where are you stuck? Do you have Paint on your computer? (There may be other ways of doing this, but this is the one I have always used.) If you have it, it should be in the start menu under "Accessories?"

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:24 am

RedGlitter;952192 wrote: Abbey- I don't know why you don't have that key. I thought it was standard. Can anyone help??

Carol- where are you stuck? Do you have Paint on your computer? (There may be other ways of doing this, but this is the one I have always used.) If you have it, it should be in the start menu under "Accessories?"
when I press Prt nofing happens

:-3

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:52 am

this is the pic of it. :-6

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:59 am

sunny104;952306 wrote: this is the pic of it. :-6

Ahhhh thats nice....mine dont do nofing:-3

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:02 am

This is my Niece on the far left after their game against New Zeland 4-0 USA USA go Women's US Olympic Soccer Team 2 more games till GOLD.

This is my desktop as well.

Attached files

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:04 am

Guess I could take a picture of it and put it here:-3

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:09 am

grecianurn;952320 wrote: I've got Print Screen with Sys Rq beneath ?? :-2

Anyway, nothing happens when I press!
Fank gawd for that........thought it was only me fgs.:-3

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:09 am

You hit print screen then open up a word document right click then paste it into that document. Save it and attach it in a post. Bingo a picture of your DESKTOP.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:16 am

CARLA;952323 wrote: You hit print screen then open up a word document right click then paste it into that document. Save it and attach it in a post. Bingo a picture of your DESKTOP.

I hit PriSc...go to me documents...pick one....right click....nofing...paste dont even hilight to click:-3

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:20 am

that's why I just posted a pic of mine, much easier.

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:31 am

sunny104;952330 wrote: that's why I just posted a pic of mine, much easier.

:wah::wah:you beat me to cheating;):D

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:49 am

Here is mine...nothing to exciting...names have been covered to protect the innocent...

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:50 am

It didint work.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:57 am

Here's my loggerhead turtle.....:-6

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:59 am

TheNewDG;952361 wrote: It didint work.

Join the club babe:wah::wah:

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:01 am

Kathy Ellen;952371 wrote: Here's my loggerhead turtle.....:-6

Why do I get the feeling your cheating also Kathy:wah::wah:;):-4

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:03 am

Hey Red and Carla,

Geeze, I think it would be lovely if you tekkies would help us non tekkies how to figure out cool stuff like this. I finally saved image as a word document and loaded it into my pictures, then photobucket, and retrieved it from pb.

Thank you....really nice...More, more....please....

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:07 am

Heres mine:D

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:09 am

Carolly;952376 wrote: Why do I get the feeling your cheating also Kathy:wah::wah:;):-4

No way......I'm not smart enough to cheat:wah::wah: try loading it into your pics and then photobucket....

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:20 am

Here's my 2nd attempt making it an attachment that you can make larger instead of using photobucket...yippy...

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:35 am

Very pretty, all of them! DG, not sure where yours went awry. The only way I personally know how to do it is through Paint. Maybe someone will tell us of another way?

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:03 am

grecianurn;952419 wrote: At last

that kitty has beautiful eyes! :-4

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:24 am

Just spoke to Chez on the phone........shes so smart that one:-4she knew exactly how to do it....seems you have to use yer shift key as well as yer PrtSc one:-5:-5

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:43 am

I just press print screen sysrq, then go to microsoft word, right click and paste, then click on file, then save as web page. It goes to my docs:D then just post it here using manage attachments, easy:D

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:53 am

Pressing the Print Screen key takes a snapshot of the desktop. Click! All that graphical information - whatever you see - is saved as a graphics image in the Windows Clipboard. You can then paste the image into any program that can swallow graphical images, such as Windows Paint or Microsoft Word.

follow these steps:

1. Press the Print Screen key.

2. Start the Windows Paint program.

Find it on the Start panel by choosing Programs --> Accessories --> Paint.

3. Choose Edit --> Paste in the Paint program.

The desktop image is pasted into the Paint program, ready for editing, saving to disk, or hard drive or printing and framing.

4. Once happy with your pic fo to File--> save as--> save on hard drive.

5. Just use manage attachments here or you could upload it to photobucket to share else where, emails ect.

To print the image after it's been pasted, simply use the program's File --> Print command.

On some keyboards, the Print Screen key is labeled PrtSc.

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:56 am

Heres mine:D

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:57 am

Chezzie;952527 wrote:

Heres mine:D

My eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wah::wah::wah:

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:58 am

Chezzie;952518 wrote: Pressing the Print Screen key takes a snapshot of the desktop. Click! All that graphical information - whatever you see - is saved as a graphics image in the Windows Clipboard. You can then paste the image into any program that can swallow graphical images, such as Windows Paint or Microsoft Word.

follow these steps:

1. Press the Print Screen key.

2. Start the Windows Paint program.

Find it on the Start panel by choosing Programs --> Accessories --> Paint.

3. Choose Edit --> Paste in the Paint program.

The desktop image is pasted into the Paint program, ready for editing, saving to disk, or hard drive or printing and framing.

4. Once happy with your pic fo to File--> save as--> save on hard drive.

5. Just use manage attachments here or you could upload it to photobucket to share else where, emails ect.

To print the image after it's been pasted, simply use the program's File --> Print command.

On some keyboards, the Print Screen key is labeled PrtSc.Yer so smart.....I fink I love you......will you marry me:-4:)

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:12 am

grecianurn;952571 wrote: hehe Thanks

but I did it all by myself (eventually;)) I'm such a clever ... person :DOk I will marry you also:D

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:12 am

grecianurn;952571 wrote: hehe Thanks

but I did it all by myself (eventually;)) I'm such a clever ... person

well done chick. love your kitty:-4

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:25 am

grecianurn;952577 wrote: That's big o' you

(either that or it's bigamy

)

doesnt count if it's a lesbian love triangle:D

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:28 am

Hey everyone:-6

Really love the advice in creating instructions on how to use technology. Wish more members would teach us some more tekkie stuff like how to print your screen...

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:32 am

...

Attached files

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:17 pm

This pic is on my desk top as of now.

Attached files

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:38 pm

Excellent thread, RedGlitter!

There are a number of methods for taking screenshots, captures or screen dumps, depending on what device you are using.

Mac OS X and Classic:

1) Command-Shift-3 takes a screenshot of the entire screen.

2) Command-Shift-4 takes a screenshot of a chosen area of the screen.

By pressing the Spacebar afterwards, you can choose a window on the screen to individually take screenshots of. You can save these images to the desktop or to a clipboard.

3) You can also use the Grab application to take screenshots.

4) A shell utility called Screencapture (located here: /usr/sbin/screencapture) can be used from the Terminal application or in shell scripts to capture screenshots and can then be saved to a file.

Microsoft Windows:

I believe Chezzie already covered this one for most folks.

By default, Microsoft Windows does not save the screenshot to an image file; you have to paste the image into a separate imaging program (eg. Paint, Photoshop...).

Windows Vista has a utility called Snipping Tool. This is a screen-capture tool, that allows users to take screenshots of windows, rectangular areas, or a free-form area. Snips can then be annotated, saved as an image file, HTML page...

You can also use GDI, DirectX or the Windows Media Encoder API to capture the screen.

There are also a number of third-party programs available that will allow you to take screenshots with advanced functionality. Irfan View, GIMP, Xnview, TurboDemo... are a few software programs that come to mind.

Just be careful not to post sensitive information when doing this, though. I hope this helps.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:26 pm

Excellent you all are doing great and your desktop are beautiful.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:05 pm

These are really nice desktops!!

Thanks to all who are posting theirs! It's fun to see what you like to look at.

A window to our personalities.

G-man and Chezzie, thank you for explaining how to do this.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:57 pm

OK, here's mine,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:00 pm

That's beautiful Chookie......just beautiful:-6

Hi Pinkchick:-6