Pixey Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I just bought a new PC and have discovered that the Print Screen is not working with PDN. Copy and paste is working fine - just not the Print Screen. Any suggestions as to how to find a solution will be most appreciated Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 What exactly do you mean with "Print Screen"? Do you want to print out an image or do you mean the keyboard shortcut for copying the whole desktop to clipboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Yes, your 2nd Question. Often when I'm making a tutorial I will take a screen shot of my work with the layers windows. This will not work with my new computer. I have read in another thread that this sometimes happens with certain software on the computer. Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) First: If you only want to copy your layer window to clipboard, be sure that it is the active window (just click on it) and then use AltGr+Print. Otherwise you should tell some infos about your running background processes by using the task manager. And of course tell us, what happens, if you try it in your way. Is the clipboard empty or something else? Edited February 11, 2017 by IRON67 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMake Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 In my HP620 the picture of the screen is made by a combination of the fn + prt sc keys. In other models it can be combination of prt sc with other keys (F.E., alt, or ctrl). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 21 minutes ago, ReMake said: In my HP620 the picture of the screen is made by a combination of the fn + prt sc keys. In other models it can be combination of prt sc with other keys (F.E., alt, or ctrl). OMG @Remake - it works! Who knew you had to use the Fn key ................ well, you did of course - Bravo . Thanks so much @Iron for your help too. 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) Can you paste to other software like Powerpoint / Word? If not then you may have to use a combination of keyboards as ReMake suggested. (I have seen a laptop computer where print screen works only when you use the function key. EDIT : OOPS too late Edited February 11, 2017 by Eli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Hi Pixey, I can't help with the PrtSc key not working (looks like Remake has solved that) but you could create a shortcut to the built-in Windows 'snipping tool'. I find it useful for tutorial/plugin graphics. Mine is in Windows/system32/SnippingTool.exe but you should be able to search for it. 1 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Many thanks @Eli - I had no idea other keys would work for this. I learned something new today . Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 2 minutes ago, Red ochre said: Hi Pixey, I can't help with the PrtSc key not working (looks like Remake has solved that) but you could create a shortcut to the built-in Windows 'snipping tool'. I find it useful for tutorial/plugin graphics. Mine is in Windows/system32/SnippingTool.exe but you should be able to search for it. Thanks @Redochre - that too is news to me and sounds interesting. I will give that a try Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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