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      id="screen-shot-record">

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    <desc>Take a picture or record a video of what's happening on your screen.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="3.6.1" version="0.2" date="2012-11-10" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2011</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

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<title>Screenshots and screencasts</title>

  <p>You can take a picture of your screen (a <em>screenshot</em>) or record a
 video of what's happening on the screen (a <em>screencast</em>). This is useful
 if you want to show someone how to do something on the computer, for example.
 Screenshots and screencasts are just normal picture and video files, so you can
 email them and share them on the web.</p>

<section id="screenshot">
 <title>Take a screenshot</title>
<steps>
<item><p>Open <app>Screenshot</app> from the <gui>Activities</gui> overview.</p></item>

<item>
 <p>In the <app>Take Screenshot</app> window, select whether to grab the
 whole screen, the current window, or an area of the screen. Set a delay
 if you need to select a window or otherwise set up your desktop for
 the screenshot. Then choose any effects you want.</p>
</item>

<item>
  <p>Click <gui>Take Screenshot</gui>.</p>
  <p>If you selected <gui>Select area to grab</gui>, the pointer changes into
  a crosshair. Click and drag the area you want for the screenshot.</p>
</item>

<item>
  <p>In the <gui>Save Screenshot</gui> window, enter a file name and choose a
  folder, then click <gui>Save</gui>.</p>
  <p>Alternatively, import the screenshot directly into an image-editing application
  without saving it first. Click <gui>Copy to Clipboard</gui> then paste the image in
  the other application, or drag the screenshot thumbnail to the application.</p>
</item>
</steps>

<note style="tip">
  <title>Keyboard shortcuts</title>
  <p>Quickly take a screenshot of the desktop, a window, or an area at any time
  using these global keyboard shortcuts:</p>
  <list style="compact">
    <item><p><key>Prt Scrn</key> to take a screenshot of the desktop.</p></item>
    <item><p><keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>Prt Scrn</key></keyseq> to take a screenshot
    of a window.</p></item>
    <item><p><keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Prt Scrn</key></keyseq> to take a screenshot
    of an area you select.</p></item>
  </list>
  <p>When you use a keyboard shortcut, the image is automatically saved in
  your Pictures folder with a file name that begins with "Screenshot" and
  includes the date and time it was taken.</p>
  <p>You can also hold down <key>Ctrl</key> with any of the above shortcuts to
  copy the screenshot image to the clipboard instead of saving it.</p>
</note>
</section>


<section id="screencast">
<title>Make a screencast</title>
  <p>You can make a video recording of what is happening on your screen:</p>

<steps>
<item>
  <p>Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>Shift</key><key>R</key></keyseq>
 to start recording what's on your screen.</p>
  <p>A red circle is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when the
 recording is in progress. This indicator does not show up in the video.</p>
</item>

<item>
  <p>Once you've finished, press
 <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>Shift</key><key>R</key></keyseq>
 again to stop the recording.</p>
</item>

<item>
  <p>The video is automatically saved in your Videos folder with a file name
  that starts with "Screencast" and includes the date and time it was taken.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>

</page>
