![]() Start/end position of the selected region. Position pixel-wise, or by 10 pixels if you hold down the Ctrl key. If you want to capture an exact area, you can use the Arrow keys to adjust the mouse cursor Holding down the Shift key while capturing fixes one dimension of the selection rectangle. You can use the Space key to switch between region and window mode. When the green rectangle covers the area you want toīe captured in your screenshot, release the mouse button. Still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse to define Click and hold where you want one of the corners of your The region capture mode allows you to select a part of you screen to be shot.Īfter starting region mode, you will see a crosshair pointing out the mouse There are several options for creating a screenshot: Or by right clicking the Greenshot icon in the notification area. You can create a screenshot either by using the Print key on your keyboard Several editor windows can be open in parallel. To reach the application, you can right click the Greenshot icon in the notification area or directly take a screenshot by pressing one of the defined keys. Greenshot is running as an own process in the background. This made me realize how useful Greenshot is.Version 1.2.10 - Edit this page under Github Contents : screenshots made for this article were are made the traditional way since it is not possible to make a screenshot of the process of making a screenshot. A great tool for improving your productivity. Especially when you need a lot of screenshots that only cover a region of your screen. I find it especially useful when making manuals for software or reporting an issue in an application when testing. I have Greenshot always available on my computer. I have never made any changes here, but if you want you can customize this to your preferences. The settings of Greenshot offer a lot of possibilities to tweak features like the output folder, image quality, capture mouse speed, language, or image quality. This makes it very easy to find the screenshot when you save a lot in a separate folder. The default file naming is the timestamp of the screenshot amended with the name of the application or web page that you are using. you might want to blur some of the fields in this bank statement.Using the blur feature you can make certain parts of the screenshot unreadable. Especially useful when you are sending a screenshot of something with a certain level of privacy. Another handy feature is the highlighting of text on the image.Īnother great option is blurring the text. It allows you to draw lines, circles, and boxes over your screenshot. The image editor offers different features that are handy to emphasize parts of the screenshot. However, I prefer the embedded Greenshot Image editor. And if you want you can still use MS Paint to edit your images. Another nice feature is to directly send your selected region to the printer. Easy to use alternatives is the preferred output folder for saving your screenshots or a program like Outlook, Word, or PowerPoint. Greenshot allows a large selection of destinations of the selected region. After this Greenshot allows you to select the image destination. When pressing the Print Screen button Greenshot shows a select cross making it possible to select a specific region of your screen. Greenshot allows you to capture a region of your screen. The executable is only 1.7Mb in size and it is available for Windows (free)and Apple Mac(paid). The feature is activated using the PrintScreen button on your keyboard( on some keyboards marked as “Prt Scr”). Screenshot for 2 monitors is not working What makes Greenshot such a lovely toolĮasy use: you install Greenshot and it is installed as auto-start on your computer. Especially when you are making a manual it is a lot of work using cut-and-paste between paint to get all your screenshots. The image you make with the regular PrintScreen is difficult to save on file. When you are using multiple screens you get an image with all the screens. The PrintScreen button makes an image of your whole desktop. We mentioned this tool previously in one of our tools showroom sessions.Īre you still making screenshots using the windows PrintScreen button? The drawback of this feature is editing the image afterward in Windows Paint or another image editor. I would recommend installing this for anyone who regularly uses screenshots in their documentation. And I noticed missing the features when I got a new Windows image on my laptop. ![]() Is it possible to make something simple as making a screenshot easier? Yes, I have been using the free and open-source tool Greenshot for the past year.
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