How To Resize a Screenshot

Here’s information that may be helpful to you in learning how to make a screenshot then resize a screenshot.

1.  Bring up the internet page you wish to make a screenshot of.

2.  Look on the right or top of your keyboard for a button that says “PrtScn” or “SysRq.”  Hit ALT and this button simultaneously.  Nothing will happen, but the screenshot is actually saved on your clipboard now.  You just have to trust that it’s there.

3.  Go into START, then RUN, then enter MSPAINT on your open bar.

4.  Once in MSPaint, click FILE, then NEW.

5.  Left click and paste your screenshot into MS Paint.

6.  This is key if you want to resize the screenshot.  Save as a PNG file.  In other words, yoursite.png

7.  Go to IMAGE, then ATTRIBUTES.

8.  Put in the size of the width and height that you desire in either centimeters or inches.  If you are sending to sombody via the internet, you probably want centimeters and if you are printing it on a presentation, you probably want inches.

9.  Save the resized screenshot using SAVE AS or by copying over the original screenshot with just a SAVE.

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