Web Wednesdays: Creating Website Screenshots

Often, you want to save all or part of a webpage and the intuitive ways to do it (like "File/Save") don't get the job done. Here are some tips for easy ways to save images and more to your computer.


If you use Firefox, I highly recommend Screengrab! It's a Firefox add-on that lets you save visible part of window, the entire page, just a selection, or a particular frame of a webpage.

There are lots of other tools that also let you save screenshots. This list of 15 Ways To Create Website Screenshots shows you a lot of them.

Finally, when none of the tools seem to do the job, here's what I do:

1. On your keyboard, hit "Shift" and "Print Scrn"
2. Then do "Control C" to copy or "Edit/Copy"
3. Open a blank PowerPoint presentation
4. Do "Control V" to paste or "Edit/Paste"
5. Crop the image using PowerPoint's crop tool to get rid of extraneous junk.
6. Right click on the image in PowerPoint and select "Save as Picture".