How to Make Paper Mini's

Step 3 Screen Capture

Make sure that Heromachine(or Hero-O-Matic, or Marvel's) is the current window on your computer and that it is also maximized. To capture the image from the screen read the instructions below.
Note: The clipboard can only hold ONE (1) image at a time. You must paste each screen capture BEFORE taking additional screen captures.

Taking a picture of an active window on your PC (This is the window you are currently working in.)

1) Hold down the {Pic. 1} key and press {Pic. 2}
(the first of 3 buttons to the right of the function keys located along the top of your keyboard).
2) This saves an image of the active window onto the clipboard.
3) Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
4) Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
5) Go to the FILE menu and select PASTE.
6) The image will now appear in the location you specified.

Taking a picture of the desktop on your PC (all windows, background, icons, etc.)

1) Press {Pic. 2} (the first of 3 buttons to the right of the function keys located along the top of your keyboard).
2) This saves an image of the active window onto the clipboard.
3) Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
4) Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
5) Go to the FILE menu and select PASTE.
6) The image will now appear in the location you specified.

Taking a picture of an active window on your Mac (For example, the contents of your disk.)

Note: a plus sign (+) means to hold keys down together.

1) Press: {Pic. 3}
2) Then hold down {Pic. 4} and click on the window you want to capture.
3) This saves the image to the clipboard.
4) Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
5) Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
6) Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE.
7) The image will now appear in the location you specified.

Taking a picture of a portion of the screen on your Mac (For example, a select group of icons.)

1) Press: {Pic. 5} (*make sure the caps lock is off.)
2) A cross will appear. Draw a box around the section you want holding down the mouse button. Press {Pic. 4} before releasing the mouse button.
3) This saves the image to the clipboard.
4) Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
5) Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
6) Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE.
7) The image will now appear in the location you specified.

Taking a picture of the entire desktop on your Mac (all windows, background, icons, etc.)

1) Press: {Pic. 6}
2)This saves the image to the clipboard.
3) Open the file in which you want to place the screen capture.
4) Position your cursor where you want to place the screen capture.
5) Go to the EDIT menu and select PASTE.
6) The image will now appear in the location you specified.

If there is a way to insert the pictures into the instructable, rather than at the end of the step only, let me know because that would be great.