Screen Capture Instructions

Notes:

Capture just the major aspects of the interaction and, if applicable, the related Website for commenting. If you use the Macintosh to capture your images, you will be able to select both the Hot Potatoes interaction and also part of a Website, without having to capture the entire screen. Capturing the entire screen usually means that you will need to edit down the image to a more manageable size.

Use Word to lay out your screen captures and your comments about the interactions they illustrate. There are several strategies to align things, including using 2-column tables or using text boxes, which can be freely dragged around to locations on the page.

When you insert the image into Word, it will come in as an object with handles that you can grab and resize. You will need to resize your images to be relatively small so that you can get 2-3 of them on a page along with the accompanying comments.

Windows captures:

Note: In Windows screen images are placed on the Clipboard, from which you must paste them immediately into a document (either a graphics/paint program or other application that handles graphics (e.g., Word).

ALT+PRINT SCREEN (Print Scrn)	To copy an image of the window that is currently active.
PRINT SCREEN (Print Scrn)	To copy an image of the entire screen.

Macintosh captures:

Mac OS X: System X has a built-in utility called Grab to capture screens. Grab is located in the Utilities folder that is within the OS X Applications folder. You must start up the Grab application once you have set up your screen for the capture and then select one of the active options from the menu: Selection (to capture the part of the screen you select by dragging across it with the mouse); Screen (to capture the whole screen); and Timed Screen (to capture the whole screen after a 10-second delay). Grab saves screen shots as TIFF files. If you want to use your screen shots in a word processor or on the web, you can use the Preview application or Photoshop or Fireworks to convert the TIFF files to other formats, such as JPEG.

Mac OS 8.x or 9.x or 10.x: If you have a Macintosh (either an older OS or a current one), you can use the following keyboard combinations to make screen captures. When you capture a screen to a file, the first file created is named Picture 1, the second is named Picture 2, etc. These files are saved on the hard drive in the main directory and are in PICT format. Use a graphics program to edit your files and save them in another format, such as JPEG.

	Create a picture file of the entire screen.
	Create a picture file of a rectangular section of the screen. (After pressing and releasing the key combination, drag across the part of the screen you want to take a picture of.).
	To copy a section of the screen or a window to the Clipboard instead of saving to a file.