All these comments kind of make me think macOS is the only OS that ships with a decent screenshot tool built in! ⌘+Shift+3 for a whole desktop screenshot, ⌘+Shift+4 to select a portion of the...
All these comments kind of make me think macOS is the only OS that ships with a decent screenshot tool built in! ⌘+Shift+3 for a whole desktop screenshot, ⌘+Shift+4 to select a portion of the screen, ⌘+Shift+5 to screenshot a window, and include some beautiful alpha transparency in the background, ⌘+Shift+6 to screenshot your TouchBar if you're on a MacBook Pro.
You'll also get this native functionality to record your screen in a multitude of different ways with ⌘+Shift+5, if you're on Mojave or later.
The UX for that functionality isn't nearly as nicely polished as what's present on a Mac, and snipping tool is a UI disaster, IMO. You may not care about that though, so YMMV.
The UX for that functionality isn't nearly as nicely polished as what's present on a Mac, and snipping tool is a UI disaster, IMO. You may not care about that though, so YMMV.
What's the major difference? From what I can tell it's basically the same thing in a new skin but I can now do multiple screenshots at once and deal with them later. Otherwise seems mostly the same
What's the major difference? From what I can tell it's basically the same thing in a new skin but I can now do multiple screenshots at once and deal with them later. Otherwise seems mostly the same
Hit keycombo, drag area, screenshot is now in clipboard. Click notification to open with paint. What else do you need from a screenshot program? Snip and sketch fixes any ui issues with the old...
Hit keycombo, drag area, screenshot is now in clipboard. Click notification to open with paint. What else do you need from a screenshot program? Snip and sketch fixes any ui issues with the old snipping tool.
Gotcha. I was just asking since I only learned about it from this thread. I was still pulling up the snipping tool via windows key and then typing 's' and was content with that. Only thing else...
Gotcha. I was just asking since I only learned about it from this thread. I was still pulling up the snipping tool via windows key and then typing 's' and was content with that.
Only thing else I'd like is a scrolling screenshot. But I just use the browser screenshot functionality to do this as I only occasionally need this for web pages.
Just the built in GNOME screenshot functionality does everything I need it to on Linux. PrtScr for the whole screen, Ctrl+PrtScr for the active window, Shift+PrtScr to select an area, with no...
Just the built in GNOME screenshot functionality does everything I need it to on Linux. PrtScr for the whole screen, Ctrl+PrtScr for the active window, Shift+PrtScr to select an area, with no extra software needed. On macOS there's a similar set of commands I can never remember. I think Shift+Command+5 is the one that pops up a little bar with buttons for screen, window, area, and screen recording.
Basically when it comes to non-Windows OSes, the built-in screenshotter is all I've ever needed. Windows has the snipping tool, does it tie into PrtScr at all now?
my only gripe is being unable to disable the shutter sound and flash in gnome-screenshot. basically disallows running silent snaps in the background. switched to maim for that.
my only gripe is being unable to disable the shutter sound and flash in gnome-screenshot. basically disallows running silent snaps in the background. switched to maim for that.
You can disable the sound by taking away the sound file it tries to play (/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/camera-shutter.oga) but yeah AFAIK there's nothing you can do to get rid of the flash...
You can disable the sound by taking away the sound file it tries to play (/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/camera-shutter.oga) but yeah AFAIK there's nothing you can do to get rid of the flash without getting your hands dirty.
On Windows 10, I've been using Greenshot and found it to be simple and functional. Pressing PrtScr now opens up an area selector, and the image can be sent to a variety of locations, including a...
On Windows 10, I've been using Greenshot and found it to be simple and functional. Pressing PrtScr now opens up an area selector, and the image can be sent to a variety of locations, including a preset folder, MS Paint, and the clipboard. I've gotten a lot of good use out of it.
I've reconfigured my hotkeys to Ctrl+PrtSc being "capture the area I'm about to define", and Alt+PrtSc being "capture (a part of) the window". The latter is surprisingly-intelligent: I can capture...
I've reconfigured my hotkeys to Ctrl+PrtSc being "capture the area I'm about to define", and Alt+PrtSc being "capture (a part of) the window".
The latter is surprisingly-intelligent: I can capture the whole fullscreen browser window, or only the site-displaying part. I can capture the whole Task Manager window, or only the processes-displaying part.
PrtSc is still PrtSc, though worked with through Greenshot.
You can even upload directly to Imgur, if you ever need to share the image.
It's excellent. If there's a better tool, I'm eager to see it.
Windows 10: I use either "Snip and sketch" (shift + windows key + S) or I use Snipping Tool (which is the previous version of snip and sketch). I use this because it's easy and does everything I need.
Windows 10: I use either "Snip and sketch" (shift + windows key + S) or I use Snipping Tool (which is the previous version of snip and sketch). I use this because it's easy and does everything I need.
I back ShareX fully, it is super powerful with so many abilities. Though most of it I essentially never use, along with some of the tools it includes I never use. But at least I know where to get...
I back ShareX fully, it is super powerful with so many abilities. Though most of it I essentially never use, along with some of the tools it includes I never use. But at least I know where to get some of them if I need them.
The best part is that ShareX is great without any tweaking, but once you start customizing it becomes super powerful. Need to screenshot and save each time? Ok. Need to screenshot edit and copy...
The best part is that ShareX is great without any tweaking, but once you start customizing it becomes super powerful. Need to screenshot and save each time? Ok. Need to screenshot edit and copy the edited file to the clipboard automatically? Sure. Need to record a GIF to illustrate how something works when a simple screenshot won't work? Yep.
I love the fact that it's tools also look really professional when editing a screenshot. I've used the Windows Snip and Sketch but it's only really useful for capturing a picture of the screen without making any edits or arrows afterwards. Greenshot is more fully featured but its tools makes the final result look like it was done in Paint which is fine for personal use but when you're putting together anything that needs to look more polished it falls super short.
Flameshot when I need to get one part of the screen, otherwise I use main. It's cli tool, but I have custom config that takes screenshot with the PrintScreen key. When I press Shift+PrtScr, the...
It's cli tool, but I have custom config that takes screenshot with the PrintScreen key. When I press Shift+PrtScr, the screenshot is saved into clipboard instead of file. Ctrl+PrtScr finds currently focused window and screenshots only the window. And Shift+Ctrl+PrtScr does both, saving screenshot of currently active window into clipboard.
On ArchLinux I use ImageMagick, which is pretty simply and lightweight. I think it is available for most Linux distributions as well. Download (Arch package)
On ArchLinux I use ImageMagick, which is pretty simply and lightweight. I think it is available for most Linux distributions as well.
I've traditionally used whatever built-in app came with whatever OS i happened to be using - which for needs always sufficed. But i never knew imagemacgick can do this! TIL! I've used imagemagick...
I've traditionally used whatever built-in app came with whatever OS i happened to be using - which for needs always sufficed. But i never knew imagemacgick can do this! TIL!
I've used imagemagick in the past for simple file conversions and such from the command line, but never really dove deep into it...Wow, it does screenshots too! I just did a search for how to actually do it, and its so simple (one example i used: https://coderwall.com/p/ooal_g/take-a-screenshot-from-commandline ) This is my new tool - at least if I'm command line mode! Thanks for sharing!!!
I almost always scrot -s (for "select"), which will either grab the window under the cursor if you click or a rectangular region if you drag. scrot is just about the simplest tool that's...
I almost always scrot -s (for "select"), which will either grab the window under the cursor if you click or a rectangular region if you drag.
scrot is just about the simplest tool that's sufficiently functional, which makes it exactly the tool I want.
Snagit. Lets me select an area of the screen to copy. Then in the editor I can quickly cut out segments, add highlighted areas, shapes, etc. which I regularly need for work. It keeps all of the...
Snagit.
Lets me select an area of the screen to copy. Then in the editor I can quickly cut out segments, add highlighted areas, shapes, etc. which I regularly need for work. It keeps all of the screenshots for future reference as well.
I'm fully accustomed to alt+printscreen > press hotkey on mouse to open mspaint.exe and paste. Then I can just crop to what I need and probably paste it into put.re if I need an url or directly...
I'm fully accustomed to alt+printscreen > press hotkey on mouse to open mspaint.exe and paste. Then I can just crop to what I need and probably paste it into put.re if I need an url or directly into discord.
It might sound like unnecessary effort but it's actually pretty fast and easier to use than snip tool imo.
Most of the time I simply use print screen or alt+print screen and open paint to manipulate. Sometimes at work I'll use snagit because it has a ton of options (such as scrolling capture) and an...
Most of the time I simply use print screen or alt+print screen and open paint to manipulate. Sometimes at work I'll use snagit because it has a ton of options (such as scrolling capture) and an editor with the kind of easy-access functionality I'm usually looking for at work, such as putting boxes around objects I want to draw attention to and being able to draw arrows with a single click.
On Windows 10, I either use Lightshot or the built-in Snip & Sketch tool. Most of the time I use Snip & Sketch to take quick screencaps for discussions I'm in, however, if I'm not in a chatroom...
On Windows 10, I either use Lightshot or the built-in Snip & Sketch tool. Most of the time I use Snip & Sketch to take quick screencaps for discussions I'm in, however, if I'm not in a chatroom that allows file uploads or I am posting online, I use Lightshot.
On Ubuntu: I use some screenshot app that I can't recall the name of that auto-uploads your screenshots to Imgur.
All these comments kind of make me think macOS is the only OS that ships with a decent screenshot tool built in!
⌘+Shift+3for a whole desktop screenshot,⌘+Shift+4to select a portion of the screen,⌘+Shift+5to screenshot a window, and include some beautiful alpha transparency in the background,⌘+Shift+6to screenshot your TouchBar if you're on a MacBook Pro.You'll also get this native functionality to record your screen in a multitude of different ways with
⌘+Shift+5, if you're on Mojave or later.And for GIFs, there's always Gifox!
The UX for that functionality isn't nearly as nicely polished as what's present on a Mac, and snipping tool is a UI disaster, IMO. You may not care about that though, so YMMV.
Snipping tool has been replaced by Snip & Sketch. You're working off old information.
What's the major difference? From what I can tell it's basically the same thing in a new skin but I can now do multiple screenshots at once and deal with them later. Otherwise seems mostly the same
You can directly start cropping or screenshotting after pressing Win+Shift+S.
Hit keycombo, drag area, screenshot is now in clipboard. Click notification to open with paint. What else do you need from a screenshot program? Snip and sketch fixes any ui issues with the old snipping tool.
Gotcha. I was just asking since I only learned about it from this thread. I was still pulling up the snipping tool via windows key and then typing 's' and was content with that.
Only thing else I'd like is a scrolling screenshot. But I just use the browser screenshot functionality to do this as I only occasionally need this for web pages.
Just the built in GNOME screenshot functionality does everything I need it to on Linux. PrtScr for the whole screen, Ctrl+PrtScr for the active window, Shift+PrtScr to select an area, with no extra software needed. On macOS there's a similar set of commands I can never remember. I think Shift+Command+5 is the one that pops up a little bar with buttons for screen, window, area, and screen recording.
Basically when it comes to non-Windows OSes, the built-in screenshotter is all I've ever needed. Windows has the snipping tool, does it tie into PrtScr at all now?
my only gripe is being unable to disable the shutter sound and flash in gnome-screenshot. basically disallows running silent snaps in the background. switched to maim for that.
You can disable the sound by taking away the sound file it tries to play (
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/camera-shutter.oga) but yeah AFAIK there's nothing you can do to get rid of the flash without getting your hands dirty.On Windows 10, I've been using Greenshot and found it to be simple and functional. Pressing PrtScr now opens up an area selector, and the image can be sent to a variety of locations, including a preset folder, MS Paint, and the clipboard. I've gotten a lot of good use out of it.
Hands down the best screenshot tool on the net. I've even donated because it's so good
I've reconfigured my hotkeys to Ctrl+PrtSc being "capture the area I'm about to define", and Alt+PrtSc being "capture (a part of) the window".
The latter is surprisingly-intelligent: I can capture the whole fullscreen browser window, or only the site-displaying part. I can capture the whole Task Manager window, or only the processes-displaying part.
PrtSc is still PrtSc, though worked with through Greenshot.
You can even upload directly to Imgur, if you ever need to share the image.
It's excellent. If there's a better tool, I'm eager to see it.
Windows 10: I use either "Snip and sketch" (shift + windows key + S) or I use Snipping Tool (which is the previous version of snip and sketch). I use this because it's easy and does everything I need.
On newer versions (starting with 1903 I think) snip and sketch opens when hitting the "print" key too
Me too, super handy for those in-browser screenshots.
On Windows I use ShareX and on Android (the screen recording features and customisability are nice), Firefox ScreenshotGo
I back ShareX fully, it is super powerful with so many abilities. Though most of it I essentially never use, along with some of the tools it includes I never use. But at least I know where to get some of them if I need them.
The best part is that ShareX is great without any tweaking, but once you start customizing it becomes super powerful. Need to screenshot and save each time? Ok. Need to screenshot edit and copy the edited file to the clipboard automatically? Sure. Need to record a GIF to illustrate how something works when a simple screenshot won't work? Yep.
I love the fact that it's tools also look really professional when editing a screenshot. I've used the Windows Snip and Sketch but it's only really useful for capturing a picture of the screen without making any edits or arrows afterwards. Greenshot is more fully featured but its tools makes the final result look like it was done in Paint which is fine for personal use but when you're putting together anything that needs to look more polished it falls super short.
ShareX 10/10 would recommend again.
I simply use Spectacle, the base screenshot tool from KDE (Linux): https://kde.org/applications/utilities/org.kde.spectacle
Gnome screenshotFlameshot when I need to get one part of the screen, otherwise I use main.It's cli tool, but I have custom config that takes screenshot with the PrintScreen key. When I press Shift+PrtScr, the screenshot is saved into clipboard instead of file. Ctrl+PrtScr finds currently focused window and screenshots only the window. And Shift+Ctrl+PrtScr does both, saving screenshot of currently active window into clipboard.
For Linux I'm quite happy with Flameshot, particularly the annotation/masking features.
Flameshot looks really nice! Thanks, I just replaced Gnome Screenshots. The annotation looks really great.
On ArchLinux I use
ImageMagick, which is pretty simply and lightweight. I think it is available for most Linux distributions as well.Download (Arch package)
I've traditionally used whatever built-in app came with whatever OS i happened to be using - which for needs always sufficed. But i never knew imagemacgick can do this! TIL!
I've used imagemagick in the past for simple file conversions and such from the command line, but never really dove deep into it...Wow, it does screenshots too! I just did a search for how to actually do it, and its so simple (one example i used: https://coderwall.com/p/ooal_g/take-a-screenshot-from-commandline ) This is my new tool - at least if I'm command line mode! Thanks for sharing!!!
99% of the time, the window I'm working on fills my screen: I just use
scrotviadmenu, seldom bothering with flags to do anything fancy.I almost always
scrot -s(for "select"), which will either grab the window under the cursor if you click or a rectangular region if you drag.scrotis just about the simplest tool that's sufficiently functional, which makes it exactly the tool I want.Not packaged in Debian is a hard pass from me, and I doubt I'd see any reason to switch, but that looks interesting.
I use teiler a lot. Works nicely with Rofi.
https://github.com/carnager/teiler
Snagit.
Lets me select an area of the screen to copy. Then in the editor I can quickly cut out segments, add highlighted areas, shapes, etc. which I regularly need for work. It keeps all of the screenshots for future reference as well.
I'm fully accustomed to alt+printscreen > press hotkey on mouse to open mspaint.exe and paste. Then I can just crop to what I need and probably paste it into put.re if I need an url or directly into discord.
It might sound like unnecessary effort but it's actually pretty fast and easier to use than snip tool imo.
Most of the time I simply use print screen or alt+print screen and open paint to manipulate. Sometimes at work I'll use snagit because it has a ton of options (such as scrolling capture) and an editor with the kind of easy-access functionality I'm usually looking for at work, such as putting boxes around objects I want to draw attention to and being able to draw arrows with a single click.
I just use GNOME's built-in screenshot keybinds for Linux and the new snipping tool for Windows.
Xfce-screenshooter. Simple with just enough functions and it always works.
I have a hotkey to use scrot and upload to 0x0.st
On Chrome OS I use the default shortcuts: Ctrl + []]] for fullscreen screenshot, Ctrl + Shift + []]] for snipping. It's quite convenient.
On MacOS, I use Monosnap. I have it configured to upload screenshots directly to an s3 bucket and copy the url to my clipboard.
On Windows 10, I either use Lightshot or the built-in Snip & Sketch tool. Most of the time I use Snip & Sketch to take quick screencaps for discussions I'm in, however, if I'm not in a chatroom that allows file uploads or I am posting online, I use Lightshot.
On Ubuntu: I use some screenshot app that I can't recall the name of that auto-uploads your screenshots to Imgur.