Fire tablets are great for browsing the web without having to lug around a full-size laptop. You can use social networks, check your email, upload photos and much more, all from the comfort of your bed or couch. This scenario means that there may come a time when you want or need to take a screenshot, either to display it online or save it to the cloud for later access.
The problem is that it’s not immediately clear how to take a screenshot on your Amazon Fire tablet. Don’t stress: it’s pretty easy to do, no matter what size device you have. This TechJunkie article will teach you how to take a screenshot on your Amazon Fire tablet.
Take a screenshot on your Fire tablet
If you come primarily from an Apple iOS lifestyle, it may not be immediately clear how to take a screenshot of something on your phone without first having access to the home button.
Android users are used to a different style of taking screenshots, which does not involve using the home button. Android phones typically use three virtual keys at the bottom of the screen for navigation.
Amazon’s Fire tablets, which run Android-based software, are no different, using identical virtual house keys that will not allow Take a screenshot. Instead, you use the physical keys of your device to capture your screen, like any Android device.
The Fire tablet’s power key is usually on the right side of the top of the device, while the volume rocker is on the left. Android usually includes side buttons.
- To take a screenshot, make sure your tablet is on the app or web page you want to capture.
- Press the volume down button first, but you have to act quickly when tapping the power button, almost as if you were pressing both simultaneously. This procedure helps reduce the “power off” scenario when the “Power” button somehow registers first. A camera or doorbell sound plays and the screen flashes to confirm the capture.
- A quick preview is displayed followed by an animation that pushes the photo to the top of the screen. If you swipe down from the top of the screen to open the notification tray, you’ll see a notification that says “Screenshot captured.”
It’s important to put attention on The volume buttons swap functions depending on the orientation of your Fire tablet.. All four possible rotations are available on Amazon Fire tablets, meaning the button that activated volume down can change depending on the position of your tablet. Here is a quick guide with the correct corresponding button:
- Normal orientation (buttons on top of the device): Press and hold the power key and the volume button closest to the left side of the device.
- Upside down position (buttons on the bottom of the device): Press and hold the power key and the volume button closest to the power key.
- Left landscape orientation (buttons on the left of the device): Press and hold the power key and the lower volume button closest to the bottom of the device.
- Right horizontal position (buttons on the right side of the device): Press and hold the power key and the volume down button closest to the power key.
Edit and share a screenshot on your Fire tablet
Once you’ve captured your screenshot, you may want to edit or share the photo with others. The editing functions account for everything from adjusting the image to cropping parts of the image. Sharing features typically represent posting the content to your favorite social networks or sending the photo to a friend in an email or message.
Your Amazon Fire tablet edits and shares, although you’ll need a dedicated app to start editing your screenshots. Let’s delve into both.
Edit a screenshot
Your Fire tablet comes with the Prime Photos app, but you’ll likely find that the device currently doesn’t offer the real ability to edit your photos. To adjust images, you need to get a photo editor from the Amazon Appstore.
Photo studio is a popular choice for editing images and screenshots on Fire tablets. The app is available on the Amazon Store and offers the ability to add filters, crop images, and adjust colors. Choose from over 200 filters to get the look you want.
- Close the page showing recent changes in Photo Studio and pe into the app.
- Photo Studio’s home screen features tons of information, including preset animations and a picture-in-picture camera mode. You can ignore all that and play “Browse,” then select “Main photos”.
- All photos on your device appear, including screenshots. The first image in this list should be the screenshot you are looking for if it was the last image obtained. Tap the photo you want and wait for it to load within the app.
- You’ll find most of the controls on the bottom of your tablet, just below the screenshot. There are four editing tabs available: (1) Filters & Effects, (2) Corrections, (3) Crop, and (4) Sliders.
(1) Filters and effects: Here you will find the ability to add filters, frames, image effects and more. You probably won’t need to use these settings for most screenshots, although there are a few options here that are important, mainly text and paint. “Text” allows you to add words to your screenshot, while “Paint” allows you to surround, highlight, or hide a specific part of the image that contains sensitive information, such as names or phone numbers.
(2) Corrections: This tab allows you to change the visual effects of your device, including cloning objects.
(3) Trim: This tab allows you to crop, crop, rotate and resize your image. For most people, this is the tab you’ll want to use to adjust your screenshot correctly.
(4) Sliders: This tab allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, photo temperature, saturation and much more on your image.
- Once you’ve completed your editing, tap the small “check mark” in the bottom right area to save the final image to your tablet storage.
- Select how you want to save the file to your device: choose a format, image size, file name, and location. You can also overwrite the original, which is a good option for keeping your screenshots together in one folder, assuming you don’t need to save the original photo.
- Once you’ve completed your editing, tap “Save.”
Your image will be saved to your device and an ad will appear on your screen. Wait a few seconds for the ad to disappear and you can see your edited photo, complete with the option to share your image at the bottom of the screen.
Share a screenshot on social media or via email
Of course, if you’re looking for a way to share your unedited photos, it doesn’t require any additional apps from the Amazon Appstore. You have two ways to share your screenshots from your tablet. The first is to open your notification tray and select the share icon at the bottom of your notification. This will open a basic sharing interface that will allow you to share with system and user-installed applications.
You can email your photo, share it on Facebook or Twitter, print your images using the Amazon Fire printing service, or share the image with another device via Bluetooth.
You can also open Prime Photos on your device to see the entire collection of images you’ve saved, as we saw earlier when adding photos to edit from the app. Select the image you want to view and then tap the share icon.
Tapping the share icon will load the same dialog box shown above, but within the Photos app, allowing you to send it to other Photos app users. This is useful if you accidentally deleted the notification from your device, but still want to share your screenshot.
Where your screenshots are saved on your Amazon Fire tablet
Finally, it’s important to note where screenshots are saved on your device. The Amazon Fire line of tablets includes an app called Documents that lets you browse the files and folders on your device, making it easy to view screenshots without having to resort to the Amazon Prime Photos app.
This Fire Documents app will appear on your home screen when you first set up the document, and you can use it to browse your local storage, move and delete photos, browse your images, and more.
Open the Documents app and select the top right tab of the app, called Local Storage. This provides you with a basic file browser app that allows you to view folders and files saved on both your internal storage and any SD cards that may be inserted into the device. You’ll find your screenshots saved in the Pictures folder on your device.
Then open that folder to see the “Screenshots” folder on your device, and you’ll find all your screenshots saved there, sorted by date and time, and with their names corresponding to the date and time they were taken. You can then move, cut, copy, and delete these photos from the Documents app, and you can also email them directly to other users.
If you connect your device to a Mac or Windows computer, you can browse your file system directly on your device and copy images from the tablet to your computer. You’ll navigate the same system architecture, so select “Pictures” and then “Screenshots” to view or copy your images to your desktop.
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Although your Fire tablet is designed first and foremost as a media consumption device, there’s also a good argument that the tablet is perfect for quick productivity. Sometimes when you work on a device, you need to take a screenshot of what’s on your screen for various reasons.
Whether you’re looking to take a screenshot of an address location on a map, a funny social media post that made you smile, or an email containing crucially important information, taking a screenshot of the screen of your device. I know some kind of trick.
Fortunately, your Amazon Fire tablet makes it easy to capture, edit, and share those images, locally and on the web. So the next time you need to save important information, don’t just write it down on a piece of paper. Save screenshot and track information with just two button presses.
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