This Itechguide teaches you how to take a picture on a Chromebook. The guide offers simple steps to use the camera app to take a picture or record a video.
How to Take a Picture on a Chromebook
Here are the steps to take a picture on Chromebook…
- On the bottom left of the Chrome OS Shelf, click the start menu. Clicking the Start Menu opens additional options, including a search box.
- Click on the search box. Then type camera and open the camera app. See the 2 images below…
Once the camera app opens, the camera on your Chromebook will come up – the light will glow. Moreover, on the right side of the camera app, 3 buttons will be displayed (see the highlighted portion of the image below)
- The photo button (second button, counting from up) is selected by default. To take a picture on Chromebook, click the button on top.
How to Record a Video on a Chromebook
Apart from taking a picture on Chromebook, you can also record a video.
- To record a video (instead of take a picture), click on the second button (counting from top to button).
Once you click the video option (the second button, counting from up), the first button will change to a video recorder – see the image below.
- Finally, to start recording a video, click the record button.
How to Find a Picture or Recorded Video File on Chromebook
After taking a picture or recording a video on Chromebook, you need to get the picture or video file. Follow the steps below…
- Open the Files app. The Files app is likely to be pinned to your Chrome OS Shelf.
If you have not previously pinned the Files app to your Shelf, follow the steps used the open the Camera app (details in section 1 of this guide), to open the Files app.
- On the left pane, (beneath My Files), click the Downloads folder. The file of the photo you took, or video you recorded with your Chromebook will be displayed on the details pane – see the second image below.
The photo file will begin with “IMG_” while the video file will begin with “VID_” – see the second screenshot below.
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