A useful necessity is a program for screen shots

Have you ever wondered how a personal computer differs from a set top box? After all, it also has a processor, memory and other computer components. In fact, everything is simple - a computer, unlike a prefix, a netbook and even a laptop, is universal. Fans of films can use it to watch video files of the newest formats; Players - play modern games; Editors of printed publications - to work with texts, and photographers - to correct images. All this is realized by the programs: there are programs for video, programs for screenshots, for audio, etc. And, everyone can choose a software product not only by the nature of the activity, but liking.

Work with images is not one designer, photographers and site developers, but also to ordinary users. For this purpose, use graphic editors, such as Photoshop. But what if you need to make a copy of the screen, saving it as an image? In this case, you need a program for screen shots. The word "screenshot" is an English word combination screenshot written in Russian letters. Direct translation in this case speaks of a little: "screen" - screen, "shot" - shot. But it's enough to remember the second translation of the word "shot" - a snapshot (remember the series of cameras PowerShot), how everything falls into place. So, a screenshot is a screen shot, in other words, an image saved to the file displayed on the screen at the time of the snapshot.

To make it more understandable, let's look at a few examples in which you need a program for screenshots of the screen:

- when watching the video was shown a static scene, which I wanted to save as a picture;

- make your own avatar - a picture on any forum. Working with a graphic editor can not everyone, besides, it does not help if the avatar should be a picture of an actor, technique, explosion or something else. It is more correct not to reinvent the wheel, but simply shoot a screenshot of the video and process the resulting image, reducing it;

- sometimes, communicating with the interlocutor via Skype or ICQ, there is a need to explain the configuration of a program. In this case, the program for screenshots comes to the rescue, because it is much more convenient to see once;

- on some sites the ability to copy and save the displayed picture is blocked, this is done to protect information from illegal distribution. A person familiar with web technologies can try to copy a picture by examining the code of the displayed page, and for ordinary users, the program for screenshots of the screen will be no less effective.

Users of the Windows operating system can take advantage of the built-in ability to save a screenshot. To do this, it takes only a few actions: at the right time, press the button on the keyboard Print Screen, this will create a copy of the screen in the clipboard; Run the mspaint editor; Insert the image with the "Paste" command or with the "Shift + Insert" key combination; Save the picture. The advantage of this method is obvious - there is no need to use third-party programs. For one or two screenshots, this method is an ideal solution, but for frequent use it is better to resort to specialized programs. There are a lot of them: PicPick, Clip2Net, Snagit. Compared with the above method, these programs offer great functionality.

Despite the fact that for the bulk of users to take screenshots is not a daily necessity, given the free of such applications and the possibility of launching them without installation, a full program for screenshots from the screen should be on each computer. It is possible that in future versions of Windows such a program will be included in the operating system.