Screen shot

It's a button on your keyboard. PrintScreen. PrtScn is what it is sometimes abbreviated to. 

ok...but where does the screen shot get saved to?

Windows Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Screenshots
or
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and settings\<Your Windows Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Screenshots

have to have hidden files shown

give thanks to Microsoft for the idiocy

Then you can open it in Paint....just hit paste... and then save it as a jpeg.

There are other programs that do that, but I just use  the PrtScn like  awuffleablehedgie said.

How about if i wanna take a screen shot of my desk top, and not the game...i have XP, and will have it till im forced into another Windows operating system lol..

I use irfanView for this type of thing. Has some good options.

1 Arrange the desktop you wish to capture.

2. if you have Jing or Snipping tool, use them to frame the desktop. Click on capture/save and choose the location you wish to save it.

Jing is free at Techsmith. JING

ok...just got irfin.....now, i hit print screen, where does it go???????????????? omg.....i was doin this 15 yrs ago and it wasnt this complicated, used to take screen shots of my Rogue Spear stats....

Press prt scrn

open paint

click the edit tab, and paste

(Just did it on XP)

-Twilight Storm

?? ... if you are talking about irfanView

Menu Options/Capture

Pick Full Desktop area

Press start button

Ctrl+f11

The screenshot will load into the program ... Save it

You don't need any of those extra pieces of software to take a screen shot.  Just get things as you want them then hit the Print Screen (Prt Scr) button on your keyboard.  Then open Microsoft Paint and click Edit on the menu and then Paste.  Then you can save the image wherever you want.  This will work in XP, Vista or Windows 7.

Thanks Lightstar....that's how i used to do it, just been a very long time. I knew there was a simple way

Glad I could help. 

Any ideas on why i lost my sound? lol....was working last nite, now nothing.

I'm sure you probably fixed it by now, but did you try making sure nothing got unplugged and rebooting? 

http://www.sharewareriver.com/download.php?id=5344  Hey go to this site and down load this program. It will take a Picture of your computer screen or what ever window you may have open. it is virus free with out ny spy wear..  I use it on 3 laptops and one home computer.. It works Great..

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If you need an easy to use screenshot app that is also free, check out Jing.

http://www.jingproject.com/

Thanks ID, I have Faststone capture but it keeps freezing up when I am in edit mode. I downloaded this and it is fast and easy and love being able to add notes and other stuff!

Yeah, it's very popular with Stardockians and TechSmith (the company who makes it) are good friends to WC and have helped sponsor the GUI Champs in the past.