Taking screenshots is a useful skill to know that allows you to take pictures of your screen at any moment. This can come in handy if you are explaining to someone how to do something, need to email your teacher an error message you are receiving, or if you want to immortalize your friend's embarrassing tweet on Twitter.

This lesson demonstrates how to do a screenshot on Mac and Windows. There are actually numerous ways to do it on both operating systems, but this lesson explains a method where it saves your screenshot as an image file on your computer.

How to take a Screenshot

Windows:

Windows Key + PrtScn

On the bottom left of your keyboard you will find the windows logo key. Hold that down and then hit the PrtScn button closer to the top right of the keyboard.

Here is a video that goes through all the different ways to screenshot in Windows. It shows the method explained above at the :50 mark

Finding your picture:

File Explorer -> Pictures -> Screenshots

After taking your screenshot, you can find the file by going to your File Explorer (the manilla folder at the bottom of your screen at the task bar), and when the dialogue box pops up clicking on Pictures on the left hand side, then opening the Screenshots folder.

Another way to find it is typing in screenshots in your search bar in the bottom left then opening the folder that pops up.

Mac:

Shift + Command + 3

In the bottom left of your keyboard you will find the shift and command keys. Hold both of these down then hit the number 3.

This video gives a visual on how to take a screen shot. It shows a few different ways to do it, including this way which is at the :15-:30 mark.

Finding your picture:

Mac saves your picture right to your Desktop. You can take that picture and move it to a folder if you want to organize all your screenshots.