View How Do I Screenshot My Computer Screen Pics. You need to draw a rectangle by using your mouse and windows then automatically copies it to the clipboard. You can take a screenshot of a specific area by using your mouse.
Open an image editing program (microsoft paint, gimp, photoshop, and paintshop pro will all work).
How to check if the screenshot has been taken to be sure that the screenshot was taken, open paint or word and press ctrl + v. Step 1 make sure you open the desired window where you want to take the screenshot. If you don't need to edit the image before saving it to your hard drive, you can easily take the screenshot and save it directly as an image file simply by pressing a special key combination. Then you can paste it (ctrl+v) into the paint program or any image editor app.