For everyone, Min and I have had a few PMs on this, and now will be conducting business on the open forum.
So,
Firstly, to produce a print screen or screen shot of something you are having an issue with - and this applies specifically to Win XP/Vista/7 and PSE5.
1. Press the Print Screen key your keyboard. This can vary from kb to kb but on mine is to the right of the F keys and above the numeris keyboard cluster on the right hand of the kb. On mine, it is one of 3 Insert/PrintScreen/Pause Break. Pressing this key loads an image of your entire screen into the Windows clipboard. (Pressing Alt+Print Screen captures the active window or a dialogue box only. Useful if you would be cropping to get down to a smaller image for posting).
2. Launch PSE editor (version 5 for sure, not sure about 7/8) and do a File, New, Image from Clipboard.
This gives you an editable view of your screen. You can use the crop tool to get down to the relevant area if a full screen capture, use the brush tool to circle a specific area, etc. If posting into a thread check for the board limit of 500 pixels by doing an Image, Resize, Image Size and see what the pixel dimensions are. If width or height are over 500, check the Resample Image button (the pixel size buttons will become editable) and enter 500 into whichever box is the largest. I usually use the Bicubic Sharper setting and then press O.K.
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3. Do a File, Save As, make sure that the image will be saved as a jpeg and that file size is less than 256Kb. (Use the quality slider to get down to a smaller size).
I usually save images that are produced this way into a Desktop Folder called Clips as it makes it easy to find when I am putting a thread together.
If the image is larger than 256Kb or downsizing it leads to too much loss of detail, use pixentral.com and post the link to the full-sized image.