Have you ever heard of a screen capture? You've seen them before. It's a graphic of what you have on your screen, whatever program you are using. They are easy to create.

Just use your Ctrl + Print Screen keys. It may be called PrntScn on your keyboard, or something similar. All this does is make a copy of whatever is on your screen, including all your browser buttons and little icons. It copies the image to the Windows clipboard. Then you can then paste into another document that will accept it, such as Word or a graphics program.

It creates a pretty large image, depending on your screen resolution size. (mine is 600 x 800) If you want to capture only the active window, without the buttons, you can also use your Alt + Print Screen keys. Just hold down the Alt key and press the Print Screen key. That's it! You've just made a copy of the active window, placing it on the clipboard, ready to insert wherever you want.

You can make my beard blue.

Don't have a graphics program? I bet you do. Just open up your paint program. (I think it comes with most every pc) Then hit edit, and paste (cntrl V). There it is. Fun, huh? Mess around with it. Go to my homepage and copy the screen. Go ahead, mess with my picture if you want.

Now what can you do with a screen capture? All kinds of stuff. Get creative! When I make my Sunday football picks online, I just create a screenshot of the table of my teams, crop it in and print it out. It is much easier than printing the whole screen or typing it all out.

I usually see screen captures on sites that promote software or have tutorials on how to do stuff on your computer. For instance, on the TimeBlaster site they have screenshots of their search photo album and compare it to the search results provided by eBay. There are also some nice screenshots on the Collectify website.

Sometimes doing a screen capture is the easiest way to create the images you need. Experiment with them.