Bard Judith -

We sort of cross-posted. Yours appeared while I was writing.

AI is probably one of the better programs for creating the kind of art you linked. That's sort of "what it's for." Other programs still can be helpful for getting the AI output into something other programs can use.

When using PrtScn, PrtScn alone captures the whole screen (in Windows). If you use Alt-PrtScn you only get the "active window." Sometimes this will give you a little bigger image with a little less to crop to clean up. Screen prints are always at 72 dpi, which is a bit crude for many uses, so if a program lets you do it, zooming in as much as possible before doing the capture with Alt-PrtScn sometimes gets you a little better resolution.

Photoshop Elements (about $80 US now I think) lets you use "File|New from Clipboard," which automatically sizes a "canvas" to the clipboard content size and resolution so that you don't have to "create" a canvas to paste to or crop after it's pasted. Once in Elements, I think you'd find a lot more flexibility in what you can do than in Paint; but as noted in the Mac/PC comments, the program you know how to use is probably the best one for you to use - as long as you can make it do what you want.

The PrtScn or Alt-PrtScn is also sometimes handy when websites block saving of images you'd like to make notes about. Sometimes you have to screen capture in pieces and reassemble, but it's workable and fairly easy in Elements.

John