How To Screenshot In Laptop No Print Screen Button

Nowadays, most people tend to use laptop for their work or entertainment because of its flexibility, portability and many other benefits. For many users, taking screenshots is an activity performed every now and then. Because you may need to share the data of excel, work report or stock chart to others. No matter what kind of info you want to share on screen, having the right tool to grab images from laptop is important that will save a large amount of time. So how do you take screenshots on a laptop? In this article I will show you different ways of making them on Windows or Mac OS laptop.

Free Ways to Take Screenshots on Windows/Mac Laptop

I. Best Way to Take Screenshots

II. Taking Screenshot by Keyboards

III. Default Program for Taking Screenshot

I. Professional Way for Windows and Mac

When it comes to professional screenshot tools that can work on both Windows and Mac OS laptops, Free Screenshot Software will definitely be the best choice over others. Different from other screen capture tools, this wonderfully designed software not only allows you to capture screen shots, but also easily edit and share images online. It is great at taking a photograph of whatever on your laptop monitor, which could be a single window, whole webpage, animation video or just the desktop.

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What's more, it also provides a free Cloud space for you to upload images to this platform and share to Flickr, Twitter, or Facebook etc. No worries, to protect your privacy, all images on the Cloud space are under strict protection. To know how to use the desktop version to screenshot on laptop, simply follow the steps below.

Download and install the screenshot program from the button above, then launch it.
Choose the desirable screenshot mode and make other setting in "Options".
Display anything you want to capture on screen and then hit the camera icon on the main interface of the program or directly press the screenshot hotkey.
Drag the mouse to take snapshot on your laptop, then you can make annotaions to the screenshots with the editing options.
Click the "Save" button to save screenshot as image file or upload it to free cloud space for instant sharing.

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II. Taking Screenshot by Keyboards

1. Windows Easy Way – PrtSc Key

prtscr laptop If you run a laptop computer with Windows OS, you may have heard that there is a free way for taking a screenshot on a laptop. Yes, just hit the "PrtSc" or "Printscreen" key on your keyboard, which is usually located at the top right region of the keyboard. Some laptops require the use of the "Fn" key, so you need to press "Fn" and "PrtSc" at the same time. The laptop will save your screenshot automatically to a temporary clipboard. Then you can press the keyboard shortcut of "Ctrl + V" on your keyboard to paste your screenshot for use.

2. Mac Simple Way – Command + Shift + #3/$4

mac command laptop So how to take screen shots on a Mac laptop or MacBook? Similar to the Windows laptop, you are also allowed to take the entire screenshot by hitting the keyboard shortcut of "Command + Shift + #3". Moreover, if you want to take a partial screen shot of the desktop, please hit "Command + Shift + $4", and then a cursor will appear that you can select an area to take your desired image. Release the mouse, your screenshot will be saved by default on your desktop as a PGN file.

III. Default Program for Taking Screenshot

1. Snipping Tool for Windows Solution

snipping tool laptop As we all know, all Windows laptops are capable of taking screenshots by using keyboard combination. Besides, they also provide a free program named Snipping Tool, specially designed for grabbing pictures from computer desktop. Just go to "Start" and search for "Snipping Tool" in laptops with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. Upon using Windows 8, you need to search for "snip" in the app search box on the Start Screen. Once open Snipping Tool, choose one snip type from "Free-form Snip", "Rectangular Snip", "Windows Snip" and "Full-screen Snip" to take the image you want.

2. Default Application for Mac – Grab

grab laptop Alternatively, you are also allowed to use the Grab utility (a built-in Mac OS X service) to capture images of full or partial screen, or even just a specific window on your Mac laptop. With a few of simple clicks, you are able to take and save screen shots to anywhere on your Mac. Click "Finder" to find "Applications" folder, and you will see "Grab" in "Utilities". Go to the Grab menu bar and click on "Capture" to choose one capture mode, then you can capture any part you want.

Conclusion:

For Windows laptop users, key combination can only capture the entire screen or the whole window, if you want to take a partial screenshot, you can turn to use the built-in program Snipping Tool. If you are using Mac laptop, you can take a picture of your laptop screen in different sizes, but you may need to find another edit tool to polish pictures like adding arrows, lines, circles, rectangles, filtering, blurring and many other effects. Therefore, a professional tool like Free Screenshot Software that integrates with nice features for capturing, editing and sharing will be the rightful favorite.
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