Screenshots are photos of your computer screen. You often see them illustrating manuals or articles on the Internet, but they are incredibly easy to create yourself.
You may not have much use for screenshots until you start a big project, for example, producing a glossy magazine. Then you will quickly discover how useful they are. First, ask the printshop technician to make a screenshot of the PDF settings they need for the files that you prepare for them. Use the screenshot as a memo to adjust the settings on your computer. Then, a designer with whom you may be developing the look of the magazine may ask you to send the CMYK reading for brand colors. Instead of copying them out, just make a screenshot of the Colors window with the reading displayed, and send it to the designer. Soon you may find yourself using screenshots all the time.
In this recipe, we will learn how to make screenshots and where else we may find them useful...