How do I Capture a Screen?

ClipMate can handle many simple screen capture tasks, allowing you to capture the whole screen, a single window, a region that you select with the mouse, or an "object".

The first two methods leverage the built-in function of the Windows PrintScreen key. If you press PrintScreen, Windows generates a bitmap of the entire desktop and sends it to the clipboard. Of course, ClipMate sees this, and makes a copy for itself. Thus, you have a basic screen grab. If you use the Alt key in addition to PrintScreen (Alt+PrintScreen), you get just the current window.

In version 6, we've added two new screen capture options: Area Screen Capture - this gives you a "rubber band" mouse selection, so you can specify an area of the screen to grab. Find the option under the Edit menu, or use Alt+Ctrl+F12.

Object Screen Capture - Similar to the above, but you simply click on any screen object, and that object is captured as an image. For example, click in a browser window and you'll get a picture of the contents of the window - but not the toolbar, menu, title bar, etc.. Click on the toolbar, and you'll get an image of the toolbar. Some will find it a bit odd - others will find it to be a lifesaver, as it can save a lot of clean-up that you'd otherwise get with an area capture. This is definitely a "take it or leave it" feature. If it works for you, great. Otherwise, leave it alone. Invoke this function with Alt+Ctrl+F11, or use the Edit menu. Then click on something, and it should be captured by ClipMate.

Printing Screen Shots
ClipMate can print the screen shots. And it can do it automatically, if you want to. See the Print Properties dialog, for the "automatically print screen shots" option.

Also See: How do I E-Mail a Screen Shot?