Take pictures of screen?

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MeltedError
Sep 5, 2003
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I want to know what I have to do in Adobe Photoshop to take pictures of what’s on my screen. Like I have heard people can take pictures of their desktop using adobe. But I don’t know how. Can someone please tell me?
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Phosphor
Sep 5, 2003
Press the print screen button on your required screen. Open Photoshop, and open a new document (ctrl + N). This new document will automatically be the size of your screen. Then paste (ctrl + V) and you’ll have your picture!
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Phosphor
Sep 5, 2003
Some helpful advice from Scott Kelby about using screen captures in print:

From Scott Kelby’s "Down and Dirty Tricks for Photoshop 6": "Screen captures are low resolution by default, but you see us using them here in this book, and you’ve seen them in magazines, books, software packaging, and a host of other places in print. So what’s the trick of getting enough resolution to go to press at 200–line screen? It’s simple—make the screen captures much smaller when you import them into your page layout application (at least 50% smaller). That’s the whole trick—shrink ’em. NOT in Photoshop, in your page layout application (if you try to shrink them in Photoshop, believe it or not, they’ll get fuzzy. Even if you reduce them just 5%, instant fuzz. You HAVE to do it in your page layout application)."

"There’s a color separation secret, too. Before you convert to CMYK, set your Black Generation to Maximum (in your custom CMYK preferences) to force the black type to appear only on the black plate. It works wonders."

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