for a tutorial and I don't know how to do it...

I need to capture a portion of my computer screen for a tutorial that I am writing at work...please if you can explain how to do it I would be grateful!

~neo

press ctrl and print screen at the same time. This copies the screen, then take your cursor to your document, email, whatever, right click and paste. That will do it. 

yeap, the "print screen" button copies the entire screen to the clipboard.

control+print scr will copy the active window to the clipboard.

from that you can paste into a new document in your image editor.

in psCS3 the sequence is

file> new> from clipboard> (this will set up the empty document) then you need to paste again.

so either: image> paste; or type contol+v.

after you have the screen shot in the image editor, you can crop, or add to it as needed.

 Alt-printscreen will keep the capture to the current program in use.

Dave W:

 Alt-printscreen will keep the capture to the current program in use.

 

What do you mean by this?? 

this is print screen. It shows all my windows and the task bar with the open programs.

Dave 

this is alt-print screen. It only shows my open browser.  The rest of the apps aren't shown.

Dave 

My mistake, Dave is right, alt+print scr captures the active window to the clipboard.

so if the application is active that goes to the clipboard.

if a dialog such as levels is active, that goes to the clipboard by itself.

Thank y'all so much!!!

I knew I could count on you

Best yet maybe. Try

http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

It will put your capture in a folder you designate