How to Take Screenshots of an Active Window

Method 1 of 3:

Using Key Combinations

Use a keyboard shortcut on Windows 7. To snap the window you want, you should keep it on the top of other tasks, and then press 'Alt+PrtSc'. The image of this window will be saved to the clipboard. You can open Paint (find it with this route: Start-All Programs-Accessories-Paint), and press 'Ctrl+V' to paste it to the editing board. After editing this image (if you like), click 'File' on the top bar and then hit 'Save' to preserve the screenshot.
Use keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Mac provides its users a flexible way to capture anything on the screen. To capture active window, you just need to press 'Command+Shift+4' and then 'Spacebar', then your mouse cursor will turn into a camera icon. Move the camera icon to the active window and click it. After that, the screenshot of the window will be immediately saved to the desktop in PNG format.

Method 2 of 3:

Using Free Online Screenshot

This method is for Windows users. The app introduced above is able to snapshot application windows very efficiently. You don't need to install anything on your PC and use it to take screenshots like a breeze.

Activate a screenshot tool. Navigate to screenshot.net. Click 'Take Screenshot' button and run Java Applet, and then you will receive the interface of this program.
Take a screenshot of your current window. Make sure the window you want is on the top of other tasks. Hit the camera icon on the interface of this app. After that, the mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair. Hover it over the active window until you see a frame appears around its borders, click your mouse to capture the window.
Save the screenshot. Once the screenshot is taken, two toolbars will appear on the sides of it. Before saving the image, you can make use of the edit function on the horizontal bar. It enables you to add various annotations to the picture, such as highlights, texts and blurs. After editing, you can click the last button on the horizontal bar to save the graph to your local disk.

Method 3 of 3:

Using Skitch

This method is for Mac users. This desktop program also enables you to grab active windows very easily.

Launch Skitch. Go to your applications folder, find the logo of this program and double click it to activate this program.
Take a screenshot of the active window. Put the window you want upon other apps. Resume to Skitch interface, hit 'Snap' on the right toolbar, move the mouse to the active window and click it. Then the window will be captured and appear in the program.
Save the screenshot. Press 'Save' in the upper bar to save the image to your Skitch folder.

Micah Soto

Update 05 March 2020

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