How to take a Screenshot from YouTube. Here is a screenshot from the YouTube video below. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzGdcVtLIk How to take a screenshot: All you need to do is go to the picture that you want that is playing on the video screen and pause the video. Press “Shift, Windows Logo + S” to take the screenshot. Then select the picture you want by dragging across the picture which will highlight the picture that you are selecting and let go. This will copy the selected picture to the clipboard which you can then paste into any document etc. Be careful to take your picture proportionately and take note of the alignments such as the paper in this screenshot.