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Screen Capture using Paintbrush


Microsoft Paintbrush on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 is a very useful tool that captures your whole screen.

Pressing the “PrtSc” key or the print screen button on your keyboard will capture whatever is on your screen.

But what if you only need a portion of your screen to capture?

You can use "Snip" tool  or Snip and Sketch on Windows 10 to capture a portion of your screen which is also a tool in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, also works for Windows 11.

But Snip tool does not provide editing, it just snip or capture your screen you can highlight some of the portion that you snip and that’s all.

So Paintbrush would still be the best choice if you want to capture the screen and edit any portion of it.

Question is, how to see the whole screen that was clip on the clipboard on Paintbrush.

If you have been using Paintbrush for a while you will notice that when you paste the data from clipboard to paintbrush, you will not be able to see the whole screen.

It is just a large picture on paintbrush.

Windows 7 and Windows 8 or Windows 10 has provided a feature to view the whole screen on Paintbrush.

Now, hit the “PrtSc” key  or the print screen button on your keyboard.

For Windows 7 follow these steps below:

Click on the “Ribbon”,  click “All Programs”  click on “Accessories” and click “Paint” to open Paintbrush.

For Windows 8:

Press the “windows key” on your keyboard and on the start window just type “Paint” you will see “Paint” on the search result and click on it to launch Paintbrush.

Once Paintbrush application opens, press Ctrl + V ("don't include the "+" sign when pressing the keyboard) just press "Ctrl" and "V" keys together;  to paste the clipboard data.

If the data is empty, try pressing Print Screen Key again and go back to Paintbrush to paste the data.

You will notice that the picture is too large to fit on the screen and you need to scroll up and down, or move the horizontal bar left and right to see what was captured on the screen.

Well, to make the story short.

Once the data is on Paintbrush and you need to double check what was captured on the screen.

You were browsing some sites that nobody should know and it was captured.

And you need to exclude it from the data.

Press “Ctrl + Page Down” (don’t exclude the  “ +” key when pressing on the keyboard) just “Ctrl” key and “PgDn” key  together.

By pressing "Ctrl + PageDown", the whole screen will fit into one small window size and you will be able to crop or select part of the screen.

For this method, you can also use this to stitch the a scrolling window which does not fit in one screen. For example if it is a scrolling Window; then you can capture the first part of the screen; crop it on Paintbrush and open another Paintbrush to paste the crop screen; Then scroll down again to do the second capture, then do the same thing; crop the second capture of the screen and add or stitch it to the first captured screen for continuation.

Do the whole process until the whole scrolling window is captured or in one piece.

PgDn is the label key for Page down on some keyboard.

And you will notice that on Paintbrush the capture screen will fit on Paintbrush Window.

Now you have the option to select which portion of the captured screen you need.

To revert the screen to the previous screen window, just press “Ctrl + PgUp”.

Its Ctr + PgDn to view the whole screen in Paintbrush, but this will only work on Windows 7,  Windows 8 and Windows 10.

On Windows XP this doesn’t work.

This method is good for resizing the photo vertically or horizontally. 

Above steps works fine in Windows 10.


Check out this link on how to pick a color using the color picker tool on Paintbrush.
http://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.sg/2014/10/pick-color-in-windows-paintbrush.html


Cheers!!!  Till next time..

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  1. GraphicsAugust 4, 2022 at 1:43 AM

    This blog is actually great. The info here will surely be of some help to me. Thanks !. screen printing equipment

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