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HYPERLINK \l "TableofContents" Everything You Wanted and Didn’t Want to Know On How to Take a Screenshot HYPERLINK \l "Windows10" Windows 10MacBookChromebookGalaxy S8Galaxy Note 10Galaxy S20Apple iPhone XAny PhoneApple iPad ProPixel8 ways you can take screenshots in Windows 10Capture all -- or just part -- of your screen with a few keystrokes.by Mark ElliottScreenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETWindows 10 October 2018 Update?introduced a new way to take screenshots last year. Snipping Tool is out; Snip & Sketch is in. (Actually, the Snipping Tool is still kicking around, but?Microsoft?claims it is being phased out.)?Here's how the Snip & Sketch tool works -- and other shortcuts for taking screenshots with Windows 10.?Snip & SketchThe Snip & Sketch tool is easier to access and makes it easier to share screenshots, but it lacks an important feature that is keeping me on Team Snipping Tool. From the Snip & Sketch window, click the?New?button in the upper-left to initiate a screen capture.?The Snip & Sketch window disappears, and in its place you'll see a tiny menu at the top of your screen that lets you choose which type of screenshot you want to take -- rectangular, free-form or full-screen. Surprisingly, it does not offer any way to capture a screenshot of a window, which is my go-to with the Snipping Tool. You can also click the down-arrow button next to the New button in the Snip & Sketch window to delay a snip for 3 or 10 seconds.After taking a screenshot, it gets loaded to Snip & Sketch, where you can annotate it with the pencil, pen and other tools at the top of the window. Your screenshot is also copied to your clipboard, and it includes any annotations you make.Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETSnipping ToolThe Snipping Tool has been around since Windows Vista. Click the?New?button to begin the screenshot process. The default snip type is a rectangular snip, but you can also take free-form and full-screen snips along with a window snip.The Snipping Tool does not automatically save your screenshots -- you will need to manually save them in the tool before you exit -- and it does automatically copy your captures to the clipboard.Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETPrint ScreenTo capture your entire screen, tap the?Print Screen?(sometimes labeled?PrtScn) key. Your screenshot will not be saved as a file, but it will be copied to the clipboard. You'll need to open an image editing tool (such as Microsoft Paint), paste the screenshot in the editor and save the file from there.?You can also set the PrtScn button to open the Snip & Sketch tool by going to?Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard?and toggling on?Use the PrtScn button to open screen snipping?under Print Screen Shortcut.?Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETWindows key + Print ScreenTo capture your entire screen?and?automatically save the screenshot, tap the?Windows key + Print Screen key. Your screen will briefly go dim to indicate that you've just taken a screenshot, and the screenshot will be saved to the Pictures > Screenshots folder.Windows key + shift-S?You can also use keyboard shortcut?Windows key + shift-S?(or the new?Screen snip?button in the Action Center) to capture a screenshot with Snip & Sketch. Your screen will dim and you'll see Snip & Sketch's small menu at the top of your screen that will let you choose with type of screenshot you want to capture.Alt + Print ScreenTo take a quick screenshot of the active window, use the keyboard shortcut?Alt + PrtScn. This will snap your currently active window and copy the screenshot to the clipboard. You'll need to open the shot in an image editor to save it.Game barYou can use the Game bar to snap a screenshot, whether you're in the middle of playing a game or not. Hit the?Windows key + G key?to call up the Game bar. From here, you can click the screenshot button in the Game bar or use the default keyboard shortcut?Windows key + Alt + PrtScn?to snap a full-screen screenshot. To set your own Game bar screenshot keyboard shortcut, to?Settings > Gaming > Game bar. Backing up a bit, you'll also need to enable Game bar from this settings page by making sure you've toggled on?Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar.Windows Logo + Volume DownIf you're rocking a?Microsoft Surface device, you can use the physical (well, sort of physical) buttons to take a screenshot of your entire screen -- similar to how you would take a screenshot on any other phone or tablet. To do this, hold down the Windows Logo touch button at the bottom of your Surface screen and hit the physical volume-down button on the side of the tablet. The screen will dim briefly and the screenshot will be automatically saved to the Pictures > Screenshots folder.Return to Table of ContentsMac screenshots: 4 ways to capture your MacBook's screenKeyboard shortcuts to take screenshots might seem straightforward on your Mac, but each technique captures a different part of your screen. Ready, set, screenshot. If your workflow requires taking regular screenshots on your MacBook or Mac Pro, then you'll need to know three common?keyboard?shortcuts, and a fourth if you have a MacBook with a touch bar. One of these techniques is a little newer. You might remember it from?MacOS Mojave, but if you didn't, rest assured that it has carried over to?MacOS Catalina.?Stick around, too, because we also walk you through how to work with those screenshots once you've taken them. Apple gives you a fair number of options to easily save, delete and open the screenshot for markup, tools that I've come to appreciate and regularly use.And if you're looking for other tips, here are?five ways to make your loud Mac's fan less noisy?and how to?get back into your locked Mac if you forgot your mand-Shift-3This keyboard shortcut captures a screenshot of your entire screen.Shift-Command-4?Use this keyboard combo to turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture. Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot.You have a number of other options after hitting Shift-Command-4:Press and release the space bar: The crosshair turns into a little camera icon, which you can move over any open window. Click on your desired window to take a screenshot of it. A screenshot captured by this method features a white border around the window with a bit of a drop shadow.Press and hold the space bar?(after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in the shape and size of the selection area but lets you reposition it on the screen. It's very handy if your initial selection area is off by a few pixels; just hold down the space bar to reposition it before releasing the mouse button to snap a screenshot.Hold down the Shift key?(after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in each side of the selection area made with the crosshairs save the bottom edge, letting you move your mouse up or down to position the bottom edge.?Without releasing the mouse button, release the Shift key and hit it again to reposition the right edge of your selection area. You can toggle between moving the bottom edge and right edge by keeping the mouse button or touchpad engaged and pressing the Shift key.Shift-Command-5A relatively new shortcut command introduced in MacOS Mojave (2018), this combination calls up a small panel at the bottom of your display with your screen capture options. There are three screenshot buttons that let you capture the entire screen, a window or a selection of your screen.?Likewise, the two video-recording buttons let you record your entire screen or a selection of it. On the left is an X button to close the screenshot panel, but you can also just hit the Escape key to exit out.On the right side is an Options button. It lets you choose where to save your screenshot -- Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages or Preview -- and set a 5- or 10-second delay so you can line up items that might otherwise disappear when you engage your screenshot tool.By default, the Show Floating Thumbnail option is enabled, which puts a little preview thumbnail of your just-capture screenshot in the lower-right corner of your screen, similar to the screenshot procedure with iOS. Unlike your?iPhone?($661 at Amazon), you can turn off this preview thumbnail on your Mac. Lastly, you can choose to show your mouse pointer in a screenshot or video.If the screenshot panel is in your way, you can grab its left edge and drag it to a new spot on your screen.Bonus for Touch Bar MacBooks: Command-Shift-6If you've got the?16-inch MacBook Pro?or another model with the Touch Bar, did you know you can take a screenshot of what's currently showing on the Touch Bar? Just hit Command-Shift-6 to take a very wide and skinny screenshot of your Touch Bar.Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNETEasy annotationIf you embrace the Floating Thumbnail, then you'll gain quick access to Markup tools to annotate your screenshot. You can swipe the Floating Thumbnail away or just let it slip away on its own and it'll be saved to the spot you last saved a screenshot. Click the Floating Thumbnail and it'll open in a Markup View preview window (but not Preview) with all of the markup tools you get in Preview.You can right-click the Floating Thumbnail to:Save the screenshot to your desktop, Documents folder or clipboardOpen it in Mail, Messages, Preview or PhotosShow in FinderDeleteOpen in in the Markup preview window described aboveClose (and save)Longtime Mac screenshotters may be slow to adopt the new Command-Shift-5 shortcut, but I find myself using it more for the ability to annotate screenshots without needing to open Preview and quickly delete screenshots that I know immediately I messed up. The 5- and 10-second delay options are also useful and appreciated additions.Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on a ChromebookScreenshots are a quick and easy way to save information or troubleshoot an issue. Typically when it comes to taking a screenshot, a series of keys is used to trigger the action. For Android devices (running 4.0 and above), the standard key combo is pressing the volume-down and power buttons at the same time. For iOS it's a combination of the home and power buttons. Chromebooks, and really ChromeOS in general, have their own set of keyboard shortcuts to initiate a screenshot.To take a standard screenshot of the entire screen, press the Control (Ctrl) key along with the switch window key at the same time. The "switch window key" is has an outline of multiple windows on it, sitting just above the row of numbers; placement may vary depending on device.Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNETA few seconds after using the key combo you'll see a notification informing you that the screenshot was successfully captured. To limit the screenshot to a section of the screen, just add the Shift key to combination (making it Control - Shift - Switch Windows key). The mouse pointer will turn into a crosshair, allowing you to select the area you want saved for all eternity.Accessing your screenshots can be done one of two ways. You can either click on the notification, or you can open the app launcher and find the icon labeled "Files." Your screenshots can be found in the Downloads folder. From there you can upload the file to Google Drive, share it via e-mail, or do whatever it is you do with screenshots.For more Chromebook how-to content, be sure to check out?this page dedicated to all things Chrome OS.Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on the Galaxy S8Now that the S8 lacks a home button, the method to take a screenshot has changed. Josh Miller/CNETUntil the?Galaxy S8?taking a screenshot on one of?Samsung's?smartphones?was done by pressing the power button and home button at the same time. It was easy to remember, especially for those switching from the?iPhone, since it's the same button combo on iOS.As you know, Samsung now uses a digital home button on the bottom of the display. That decision forced a lot of changes, such as moving the fingerprint sensor and using a new button combo to take screenshots.To take a screenshot on the Galaxy S8, press the?power?and?volume-down buttons?at the same time. Pretty simple, right?In the settings app under Advanced Features, there's a Smart Capture section that shows the ability to swipe your hand across the display as another method for taking a screenshot, but I've had no luck actually getting it to work.Return to Table of ContentsYour new Note 10 doesn't power down the same way. Here's how to turn it offYou'll also have to relearn how to take a screenshot. The Note 10's Power Menu.?Jason Cipriani/CNETWhen you?pick up the Note 10?for the first time, you'll likely reach for the power button on the right side, only to find... nothing.?Samsung?moved the power button to the left side of the phone, just beneath the volume-down button.?Wait, isn't that the same spot the?Bixby?button has been? Yes! Adding to the confusion, the new button can now open the camera, launch Bixby or power off your phone, depending on your settings. What happened to the good ol' days of a dedicated power button you simply hold in??One more thing -- the way you take screenshots has kind of changed, too. It took us a couple of days to get it all sorted out, but we're ready to break it all down for you.?Turn off the Note 10 and Note 10 PlusOut of the box, there are different ways to turn off your phone:Press and hold the volume down and power button for a few seconds.Pull down the notification shade and tap the power button icon.Tell Bixby to turn off your phone.Of course, using the power button is also possible, but you'll need to adjust a few settings to make it happen. To change the long-press function of the power button, either trigger the power screen via the notification shade and select?Side key settings?at the bottom of the screen or go to?Settings?>?Advanced features?>?Side key.?In the Settings menu, you'll have the option to customize the double-press and press-and-hold actions. Set the latter option to?Power off menu.?In addition to launching Bixby or powering off your phone, a single press of the power button will wake your phone, while a double-press launches the camera.You just need to quickly press the volume down and power button to take a screenshot.?Sarah Tew/CNETHow to take a screenshot nowThere are a few different ways to take a screenshot on the Note 10. The easiest is to press the volume-down and power button at the same time. It's just a quick press -- you don't need to hold either button in.?Another way to take a screenshot is using the S Pen. Remove it from the Note 10, tap the?Air Action?button, followed by?Smart Select. Use the S pen to outline the area you want to capture. Smart Select is convenient because it allows you to capture just the section of the screen you want without having to crop it after the fact. It includes a square/rectangular tool, a freeform option and a circular selection tool.Lastly, you can use Samsung's tried-and-true palm swipe gesture. Make sure it's turned on in?Settings?>?Advanced features?>?Motions and Gestures?and turn on?Palm swipe to capture. With it turned on, you can place the edge of your hand on the display and swipe in either direction to take a screenshot.?Return to Table of ContentsEssential Galaxy S20 tricks you need to know: Restart the phone, dark mode and 7 more crucial tipsSamsung made some important changes in the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra phones. Learn them now. Sarah Tew/CNETNew?Galaxy S20 phones, new software features inside. Samsung freshened up the way the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra work, from rebooting the devices to taking screenshots, enabling gesture navigation and more.The changes come from a combination of Google's?Android 10?operating system and?Samsung's One UI 2?software layer. There are too many new features to name (discover the best-hidden features here), but I have plenty of tips for using your new S20 phone. When you've mastered the features below, here are?six more to help you preserve battery life on your Galaxy S20.?Below are some tips and tricks I've found while testing Samsung's latest phones.?Be quicker when taking a screenshotThe first time I tried taking a screenshot on the S20 Plus, I pressed and held the buttons waiting for the screenshot notification, only to see an alert letting me know I had to be quicker. On the?Galaxy S10?you had to hold the buttons down to take a screenshot.?Instead of holding down the volume and power buttons for a moment, you only need to quickly press the volume rocker (either up or down, it doesn't matter) and the power button at the same time. Don't hold either button in -- just quickly press them at the same time.?Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on the iPhone XWithout a home button, there's bound to be a few new things to learn. Taking a screenshot is one such thing. Since the beginning of the?iPhone's time, taking a screenshot has consisted of pressing the side button (formerly the power/wake button) and the home button at the same time.With?Apple?ditching the home button on the?iPhone X, the process has to change. So, what's the trick?Hold in the?Side Button, then press and release the?Volume Up?button. A flash of the screen later, a screenshot is captured. I've actually found it easiest to?press and release?both buttons?at the same time, instead of pressing in a sequence. If you forget to release the buttons, you'll soon see a prompt to turn off the iPhone X.?You can then use the nifty new screenshot tool in?iOS 11?to mark it up or share it without having to save it to your camera roll.Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on any phone, iPhone or Android: iPhone 11, Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Moto G7With the right combination of buttons, you can easily screenshot your phone no matter the brand. Charlie Wagner/CNETThere are many reasons you might want to take a quick screenshot with your phone. Perhaps it's to save a cool post on Instagram from your?new iPhone 11?or document the newest in high fashion to help you dress better, or maybe it's to archive a wonderful text conversation you had with your friends or family.Whatever the reason, here are several easy ways to capture your?iPhone?($661 at Amazon)?or Android screen. Stretch those fingers because they're going to be a lot of buttons getting pressed (Actual buttons not figurative ones).You might already know how to take a screenshot, but it turns out there are a number of ways to capture what's on your phone's display, especially on Android. If you own a?Motorola?phone like?The best budget phone just got better?or a?Samsung?phone like the?new Galaxy Note 10, not only do you have a couple of different ways to take a picture of your screen, but you have fun and interesting ways to do so without ever pressing a button.If you'd like to follow along as we create screenshots step-by-step, watch the video below:?How to take screenshots on your iPhone or Android phone.How to take screenshots on iPhone X and 11Let's start with iPhones that don't have a home button: the X, XS, XR, all three new?iPhone 11?phones. If you own one of those phones (or?preordered one), chances are you have unintentionally taken many screenshots by accidentally mashing the winning button combination. But here's how to take a screenshot on purpose.Simultaneously press the power button and volume up button. You need a Goldilocks press for this. If you do one that's not too short, then nothing will happen or you might trigger?Siri. If you do one that's too long, then the power off and SOS screen will appear. I unscientifically timed it and it takes a 0.9-second button press to trigger a screenshot.In our unscientific timing, you have to hold the power and volume buttons for 0.9 seconds in order to trigger a screenshot.When you take a screenshot successfully, you'll see the screen flash and hear a camera shutter sound. A miniature version of your screenshot will float on the bottom left of your screen. You can tap on it and go into Markup mode to crop, edit or add text right away without having to go into the Photos app first, which is terrific.If you don't want to edit your screengrab, you can just swipe the mini version away or wait for it to disappear on its own after a few seconds. By default, your screenshot will save to the Photos app.In iOS 13, when you screenshot a webpage in Safari, you have the option to capture the entire page or just what was on your screen.How to take screenshots on iPhone 8 and earlierIf your iPhone has a home button, there is a different way to take a screenshot. Press the home button and the sleep/wake button at the same time. A mini version of your screenshot will pop-up on the bottom left of the screen.You can tap on it to edit it or share it right away.How to take screenshots on Android smartphonesAndroid has many avenues to capture the contents of your screen. The universal way is to simultaneously hold the power button and the volume down button. The screen will then flash and a framed version of your screenshot will appear on the display.Depending on your phone, an editing window might pop-up. Otherwise, the screenshot will disappear off the screen. Screenshots are saved in the?Google Photos?app, or in your phone's native gallery app. Charlie Wagner/CNETMotorola's three-finger touch methodIf you own any recent Motorola phone,?like the excellent Moto G7, you can use the power and volume button technique or a three-finger method. This latter technique happens to be one of my favorite ways to take a screenshot because there is very much a?Spock-Vulcan-neck-pinch Star Trek vibe?about the whole thing.To enable three-finger screenshot, go into the Moto app or if you're on an older Motorola phone find the Moto Actions menu in?Settings. Turn on?Three Finger Screenshot. You can tap on the description to bring up a quick animated tutorial on how to use it.Now anytime you want to take a screenshot, simply press on the display with three fingers at the same time. The screen will flash and a screenshot editor will appear.Samsung's karate chop techniquePerhaps the most interesting way to take a screenshot comes from Samsung. You can, of course, use the Android system way with the power and volume buttons. But there are a couple of other options one of which involves using your palm -- no joke. The?Galaxy Note 10 even has a new tool to record your screen.The palm method involves holding your hand in a "karate chop" pose (so basically, the edge of your hand is perpendicular to the screen) and dragging the side of your hand across the display. To enable, go into?Settings?and tap the magnifying glass icon. In the search field, type the word "palm" and you'll see a menu option?Palm swipe to capture?appear. Charlie Wagner/CNETTap on?Palm swipe to capture?and you'll be brought to the?Motions and gestures?menu. From there you can find?Palm swipe to capture?in the list and a button to enable it on the right. If you tap on the description, you'll be guided through a quick tutorial.I'll admit, this gesture isn't as reliable as the power and volume button press, but you can do it one-handed by merely grazing your phone's screen.?Samsung's Edge Panel lets you take precise screenshotsBy the way, Samsung didn't stop with the palm because in the Edge Panel on Galaxy phones you can also make screengrabs but with more precision.To enable the Edge Panel, go into?Settings?and tap the magnifying glass icon. In the search field, type the word "edge" and you'll see the menu option "Edge Panel" pop-up. Tap on?Edge Panel?and you'll be brought to the Edge Panels set-up screen.There is a blue strip with an on/off button to enable Edge Panels. Below that button is a gallery of various Edge Panels. Scroll until you find the one called?Smart Select. Tap on the radio button to enable the Smart Select menu.When you want to capture your Galaxy phone's screen more precisely, open the Edge Panel by deliberately swiping from the right edge of the display to the left. With the Edge Panel open, swipe through the various panels until you land on Smart Select. From there, you can select a rectangular capture, and oval capture or an animation capture that lets you make a GIF.After you select the way you want to capture the screen a box or oval will appear. You can resize and reposition the tool over the part of the screen you want to capture then tap?Done. From there, you are brought into a screenshot editor.You now know how to take screenshots on pretty much any phone you can imagine. If you like Samsung's Edge Panel, check out?our story on how to make GIFs with the Edge Panel.Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on the new iPad ProNo home button? No problem. Jason Cipriani/CNETSince the beginning of iOS, the process for taking a screenshot involved pressing the sleep/wake button and the home button at the same time. The screen would flash, emit a camera shutter sound, and the screenshot would be saved to your camera roll.With the reinvention of iOS devices that lack a home button, starting with the iPhone X, and now the new iPad Pro, the mundane task of taking a screenshot has changed.To take a screenshot on the new iPad Pro, press the sleep/wake button -- it's the button on top of the iPad Pro -- and the volume-up button at the same time.You don't need to hold the buttons in for an extended amount of time. Just make sure you press them at the same time, and the familiarity of a screen flash and camera shutter sound will occur.?Return to Table of ContentsHow to take a screenshot on the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XLTake and share a screenshot to get help with an issue, or to show off a new theme you're testing. Here's how.Screenshots are an easy way to keep track of your home screen layout, get help troubleshooting an issue, or create?a record of a conversation.With the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the process is the same as it has been on Android devices for a few years now. To take a screenshot on Google's latest phones, press and hold the power and volume down button at the same time. A second or so later, the screen will flash and an animated thumbnail image of your will float into the notification tray. ?Be sure to press both buttons at the same time. Pressing one button before the other will prompt the volume slider to show up instead.Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNETOnce the screenshot is captured, you can slide down the notification shade and either delete it or tap on the share button to immediately share it. Easy peasy.On my?Google Pixel 3, I only need to long-press the power button and the option to take a screenshot. 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