Taking Screen Shots with MS Paint

Necessary Tools: 2 open window of MS Paint

1. First open the window you want to take a screenshot of:
   

   then press "F11", this will open up your window like this:

   

2. Press "print screen" on your keyboard. That would be the key right after F12.
3. Open a window of your MS Paint then click on Edit=>Paste. Now your window should look like so:
   

4. We need to crop our image. Hold your Ctrl key and press the minus sign (-) on your number pad. Now you can see how your screen shot shrinked into proportional size.
   

   If you think that your screenshot is still big enough as a preview for your graphics press the minus sign again (-) while holding down the Ctrl key. Now your screenshot looks like this:

   

5. Right-click on your image and click on cut. Open another MS Paint Window and click on Image=>Attributes. Adjust the width to 100 and height to 100 too. This will ensure that you won't need to crop the image once you've pasted your screenshot. Click OK.
6. Now click on Edit=>paste. Your window should now be like the one below:
   

7. Save your image as JPEG or PNG to retain color!

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