2]  The first decision is "What Do I Want To Capture".  The Paint Shop Pro Screen Capture in preparing this document. It can be advantageous  to capture the entire screen; included in the capture would be all applications and icons visible on the desktop and the task bar.  It has been my experience that most captures are best accomplished using  the current window. Using the mouse, select the Window radio button. (See Below!)

3]  The second decision is "How  Do I Want To Activate The Captures".  Some application programs, such as Netscape,  use the right mouse button. We shall use the F11 Hot Key to activate each screen capture.  Using the mouse, select the Hot Key radio button and the F11 pull down tab.  (See Below!)

4]  The third decision is "Do You Want  The Cursor Included In The  Capture".  If creating a user manual for how to use the Calculator program shipped with Windows 95, the answer to this question would be yes.  Using the mouse, select/mark  the Include Cursor  check box.  (See Below!)

5]  The fourth decision is "Do You Want  Paint Shop Pro To Allow Multiple Captures or Do You Want It To Immediately Pop Up On The DeskTop Each And Every Time You Do One  Capture". When writing a user manual, it is often convenient to do several captures in a series.  Using the mouse, select/mark  the Multiple Captures  check box.  (See Below!)

6] The setup configuration is now complete. Using the mouse, select/push the OK  button.  (See Below!)

7] The capture program may now be started any time paint shop pro is running by

8] Starting the screen capture immediately minimizes Paint Shop Pro; you can see the minimized icon in the task bar below. The screen capture application will continue to capture screens each and every time the F11 key is pressed. Once the Paint Shop Pro application is made the active application on the desktop, the screen capture application is turned off. In the task bar below, the screen capture program has been activated and the Calculator program is the active application on the desktop.   (See Below)

9] The Calculator application has a  2 in the display window and the mouse currently rests upon the square root key; the F11 Key is pressed.

When Paint Shop Pro becomes the active application on the desktop, we can see the captured image in the illustration below. Note that the mouse has been included in the capture. Also note that only the active window, the calculator program, was captured.  (See Below!)

11]  Paint Shop Pro supports more than thirty different image formats. The two image formats that have become the standards for the Internet are GIF and JPG. These two image formats are also becoming more standardized in word processing, presentation programs, and desktop publishing. Just for comparison, let us save this image as Image1.gif and Image1.jpg. (See Below!)

12]  The GIF image format is best used when the image contains a limited number of colors with large blocks of the same color; the GIF format limits the image to 256 colors.

The JPG image format is best used for photos and other images with many and/or very changing color patterns; the JPG format supports millions of colors. Color photos saved in GIF format often appear to be very blotchy!

Our Calculator image has a limited number of colors and large areas of the same shade of gray.  This image can easily be represented in the 256 colors available to the GIF image format. Note that Image1.gif requires 5.15 KB of memory and Image1.jpg. requires 21.3 KB of memory  (See Below!)

13]   Image1.gif can be seen below! It does indeed reflect the calculator program preparing to calculate the square root of 2.  (See Below!)