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Take a screenshot 19

by Adam Marks Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:15 pm EDT

Want to take a shot of your screen?  Simply press Option (orange or silver key) + Sym + P at the same time.  You will find a copy of the screenshot (as a .png file) in the "Screen captures” folder in the Photos app and the "screencaptures" directory on your USB Drive

 

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Posted by tllemmon on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:18 pm EDT

Good Info

Posted by bigbadblo on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:25 pm EDT

Thanks for all the simple tips-n-tricks posted recently... You learn something new every day @ PC!

Posted by dbdoinit on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:25 pm EDT

To make sure you get it right every time:

>HOLD orange/grey FIRST, then

>HOLD sym, then, while holding those

>TAP the letter P

*** There will be NO confirmation. Just check your photo folder for a new folder that's automatically labeled "screenshots".

Posted by teemed on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:34 pm EDT

This is incredibly useful as a way to crop photos before sedning them out.

Posted by Adam Marks on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:52 pm EDT

Check out Photo Effects Plus...makes cropping really easy, too, but requires a data connection

Posted by FreudSlipped on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:55 pm EDT

+1 for this program.

Posted by gizmo21 on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:37 pm EDT

sadly the screenshots are not ordered in reverse like the other foto folders **BUGFIX PALM**. you always have to scroll to the bottom to see if it worked.

Posted by dan-o on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 1:11 pm EDT

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Posted by alvaro_qc on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 1:57 pm EDT

It'd be nice that in a future webOS update when taking a screenshot we get a "flash" like in the iPhone or at least a camera sound.

Posted by btroffded1 on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 2:07 pm EDT

I got my Pre on release day, and it wasn't until about 2 weeks ago I saw the instructions on how to take a screen shot.

I'm sure there are plenty others who have missed it and always wanted too.

I love these tips

Posted by josolanes on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 2:08 pm EDT

wow cool tip. Didn't know this before!

Posted by JimOhara on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 2:38 pm EDT

Never knew about this, Thanks!

Posted by H-Cubed on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 2:05 pm EDT

*scoffs*

wow...

Posted by amrovi20 on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 1:52 pm EDT

Great tip and keep them coming..

Posted by protofa on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 4:21 pm EDT

it should just be that u press the option key and 'p' rather than pressing three keys at same time, since God only gave me two hands. There should be a confirmation.

Posted by GlennTaper on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 1:47 am EST

FYI - I noticed in the "Pre Tricks and Tips.pdf" (a great little resource incidentally) it instructs users "Orange - Shift - P" to take a screenshot (it's about midway down page 4 of the pdf, under Camera).
I don't know if this worked for the earlier Sprint Pre, but it doesn't work for the Pre Plus (Verizon).
Orange/gray-Sym-P works well.

Posted by BBooDoc on Wed, 18 May 2011 11:46 pm EDT

Better late than never; I remembered the resize/screenshot tip somewhere on PreCentral tonight. Searched, and voila, have a cropped picture of my campsite as wallpaper...

thanks!

Posted by patapoof on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 3:15 pm EST

use to do screen shot on touchpad (at least on my 3.0.5 one) and hear camera sound as it does it !! I didn't figure it out ...I found it here:
http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-pre-3/300569-screen-shots-pre3-how.html...

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