# How to capture a picture?
**URL:** https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972
**Category:** QGroundControl
**Tags:** ardusub
**Created:** [June 23, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972 "2021-06-23T13:08:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@aswad](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/aswad)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/1 "2021-06-23T13:08:26Z")
How to capture a picture using joystick
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### Author:  [@murf](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/murf)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/2 "2021-06-23T15:06:17Z")
Hi Aswad, I don’t believe the camera shutter function is implemented at present, There is a function for it in the button menu though, so hopefully it will be a future update, I would suggest using a free screen capture software or even the x-box game bar and bind a key to it so it can be minimised to run in the background.
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### Author:  [@aswad](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/aswad)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/3 "2021-06-23T15:18:52Z")
why when we reinstall the QGroundControl application and try to re-open the application, its appear “a second instance of QGroundControl is already running. Please close the other instance and try again.”
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### Author:  [@murf](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/murf)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/4 "2021-06-23T15:24:06Z")
I had this 1 or 2 times when our Bluerov2 was new, I had to force close it with windows task manager, been OK since.
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### Author:  [@aswad](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/aswad)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/5 "2021-06-23T15:27:00Z")
but, in my case, it still cannot be open after I force shut down at windows task manager, several times.
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### Author:  [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/6 "2021-06-24T02:26:32Z")
> [@aswad](#):
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> it still cannot be open after I force shut down at windows task manager
I’d recommend restarting your computer in this case, so that it closes any currently open versions of QGroundControl. Then when you’ve logged back in make sure to only open it once. It can take a while to start up, so be patient once you’ve double-clicked it to open - clicking again won’t make it faster, but can cause issues with opening multiple copies of the program (as you’ve already found).
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### Author:  [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/7 "2021-06-24T04:16:05Z")
> [@murf](#):
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> I don’t believe the camera shutter function is implemented at present, There is a function for it in the button menu though, so hopefully it will be a future update
Correct that the camera shutter function isn’t currently implemented. I believe it requires a mavlink-compatible camera, whereas the camera we use just outputs an efficient streaming format that we use the companion computer to stream up to the top computer. I don’t believe making a workaround for this is something that’s currently being worked on, since it’s already possible to record video, and if you need images from that the individual frames can be extracted from the video file.
> [@murf](#):
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> I would suggest using a free screen capture software or even the x-box game bar and bind a key to it so it can be minimised to run in the background.
If capturing images without capturing video is important to you, or you want to display the controls over the image (note the video recording feature records the video sent by the ROV, with a telemetry overlay as subtitles) then using your operating system’s screenshot functionality could be useful - there should already be a keyboard shortcut available for it.
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### Author:  [@gianniskaldis](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/gianniskaldis)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/8 "2025-04-07T08:58:32Z")
Anybody could help me with taking a screenshot with the rov2? I have mapped the “camera toggle” function to my controller but nothing really happens. Is thereanother function I need to map or some software I need to update?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/how-to-capture-a-picture/9972/9 "2025-04-07T11:27:42Z")
Hi @gianniskaldis,
I’ve moved your post here, because it’s on the same topic.
> [@gianniskaldis](#):
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> Anybody could help me with taking a screenshot with the rov2?
There are some suggested workarounds in the thread above, but as described there screenshotting/snapshotting functionality is not currently available using QGroundControl ([or Cockpit](https://github.com/bluerobotics/cockpit/issues/698), although we’re currently discussing implementing an initial version of it).
> [@gianniskaldis](#):
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> I have mapped the “camera toggle” function to my controller but nothing really happens.
This function is for switching which camera feed is actively displayed, not for capturing a screenshot or snapshot of a video feed.