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Capturing the screen with Capture Express

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Tutorials

Monday March 9, 2009

How many times have you wanted to share an image of your screen with someone? Perhaps its an error message that you want to show or a unique display issue. Perhaps you want to grab a part of a web page and show it by email. If the answer to our initial question is anything other than "never, but thanks for asking" you should consider using a screen capture utility.

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Show Notes

Get Capture Express from the Tucows / butterscotch file library

- Open Capture Express.

- Options allow you to choose how to handle screen captures: save as an image, print, email and more.

- The default hot key to start a screen capture is is F11.

- Press F11 and select what part of the screen you want to capture. When you're ready click Capture.

- Then left-click your mouse in the upper-left corner of where you want to capture.

- Drag the mouse down and over to include the portion you want to capture.

- When you're finished click again and a dialog comes up asking you what you want to do with the capture. Click Save.

- Type in a name for the file and click Save.

- In Capture Express click Done.

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