Screenshots are such a basic thing today in our smartphones to capture a portion or an entire screen and share it with friends and family. In this video, let's look at the different ways to take screenshots like a pro with your Samsung Galaxy S8:
Capturing screenshots
You can capture a screenshot either by:
- Holding the power key and volume down key together for a few seconds, or,
- Do a palm swipe gesture over the phone
You can enable the palm swipe gesture under:
Settings->Advanced features->Palm swipe to capture
Editing screenshots
Once you have captured the screenshot, S8 provides various editing tools to annotate the captured screenshot. You can either open the captured screenshot from the notification window immediately after taking the screenshot or locate it under the Screenshots folder in your Gallery app.
Just hit the Edit option to start editing your screenshot. You can annotate your screenshot with stickers, labels and even draw on the captured image.
Scroll capture
Sometimes, you may need to capture several pages in a screenshot. You can do that using the Scroll capture option. Immediately after taking a screenshot, tap the Scroll capture option at the bottom which will now take another screenshot by scrolling the app.
Smart select
The smart select edge panel offers various quick options to take screenshots. You can add the smart select panel under:
Settings->Display->Edge screen->Edge panels
Tap the Edge panels to add the smart select panel.
With the smart select, you can capture specific regions of your screen in the following shapes: Rectangle and Oval.
You can also extract the text from the screenshot content which is very cool. Very useful if you just want to share the text instead of the image (SMS vs. MMS).
You can also pin a screenshot to the top of your screen. This is useful if you want to refer the contents of the screenshot in a different app.
Finally, the Animation option helps you create a GIF from a video. This does not record your screen though, just helps to create GIFs from existing videos.
To create a GIF with this option: Play your video, open the smart select panel, tap the Animation option and choose the area you want to record. Then hit the record and stop accordingly to capture the GIF.
Go to URL
This is an amazing feature where taking a screenshot of a web page from a browser app also saves the source of that web page as one of the options so you can later visit that page from the saved screenshot.
This works in any browser app, whether you are using the Samsung Internet or Chrome browser app. If you open the captured screenshot, in the bottom bar, you will see the option Go to URL which will open the captured web page in your browser.
And that's how you take screenshots like a Pro with your Samsung Galaxy S8!
For more Samsung Galaxy S8 How-Tos and tips, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel here and follow the Galaxy S8 playlist here.
Capturing screenshots
You can capture a screenshot either by:
- Holding the power key and volume down key together for a few seconds, or,
- Do a palm swipe gesture over the phone
You can enable the palm swipe gesture under:
Settings->Advanced features->Palm swipe to capture
Editing screenshots
Once you have captured the screenshot, S8 provides various editing tools to annotate the captured screenshot. You can either open the captured screenshot from the notification window immediately after taking the screenshot or locate it under the Screenshots folder in your Gallery app.
Just hit the Edit option to start editing your screenshot. You can annotate your screenshot with stickers, labels and even draw on the captured image.
Scroll capture
Sometimes, you may need to capture several pages in a screenshot. You can do that using the Scroll capture option. Immediately after taking a screenshot, tap the Scroll capture option at the bottom which will now take another screenshot by scrolling the app.
Smart select
The smart select edge panel offers various quick options to take screenshots. You can add the smart select panel under:
Settings->Display->Edge screen->Edge panels
Tap the Edge panels to add the smart select panel.
With the smart select, you can capture specific regions of your screen in the following shapes: Rectangle and Oval.
You can also extract the text from the screenshot content which is very cool. Very useful if you just want to share the text instead of the image (SMS vs. MMS).
You can also pin a screenshot to the top of your screen. This is useful if you want to refer the contents of the screenshot in a different app.
Finally, the Animation option helps you create a GIF from a video. This does not record your screen though, just helps to create GIFs from existing videos.
To create a GIF with this option: Play your video, open the smart select panel, tap the Animation option and choose the area you want to record. Then hit the record and stop accordingly to capture the GIF.
Go to URL
This is an amazing feature where taking a screenshot of a web page from a browser app also saves the source of that web page as one of the options so you can later visit that page from the saved screenshot.
This works in any browser app, whether you are using the Samsung Internet or Chrome browser app. If you open the captured screenshot, in the bottom bar, you will see the option Go to URL which will open the captured web page in your browser.
And that's how you take screenshots like a Pro with your Samsung Galaxy S8!
For more Samsung Galaxy S8 How-Tos and tips, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel here and follow the Galaxy S8 playlist here.
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