Obfuscating parts of a screenshot is a good idea if it contains data which is not Magnify: the selected area will be displayed magnified.Grayscale: everything outside the selected area will be turned to grayscale.Highlight area: blurs * and darkens everything outside the selected area.Highlight text: highlights an area by applying a bright color to it, like.The leftmost button in the toolbar on top: There are several options for highlighting, which you can choose from by clicking Highlighted exactly like you would draw a shape. If you need to insert line breaks within a text box, hit Shift + Return orĪfter selecting the highlight tool H, you can define the area to be Hit Return or Enter when you have finished editing. Just draw the text element to the desiredĭouble click an existing text element to edit the text. Usage of the text tool T is similar to the usage of the Is very handy if you want to draw an ellipse around something on your screenshot.) the object is resized in the opposite direction, too. When drawing or scaling, you can hold down Ctrl to have the object anchored in You can also use Shift if you want to resize an existing object maintaining it's aspect ratio. Results in the line's angle being rounded in steps 15°. When drawing lines or arrows, holding down Shift force a rectangle to be a square) holdĭown Shift while drawing. If you want to draw equilateral shapes (e.g. In order to select multipleĮlements, hold down the Shift key while clicking the elements. You can select multiple elements for editing at a time. Selecting it, but also for the next element to be drawn after selecting a drawing tool. You can change the options for an existing element after Set of options available to change the look of the element (e.g. You can move or resize existing shapes after selecting the selection toolįor every element type there is a specific Release the mouse button when you are done. There is also a key assignedĪvailable shapes are: rectangle R, ellipse E, line L,Ĭlick, hold down the mouse button and drag to define position and size of the shape. Of the image editor or from the Object menu. Select one of the shape drawing tools from the toolbar on the left hand side If you do not want to use the image editor, you can disable this Or Open image from clipboard, respectively.īy default, the image editor will be opened whenever a screenshot isĬaptured. The Greenshot icon in the systray and select Open image from file Open images for editing from a file or from clipboard. Greenshot's image editor may not only be used for screenshots. To add annotations or shapes to a screenshot. Greenshot comes with an easy-to-use image editor, providing a handy featureset Use Greenshot's context menu to select the Internet Explorer tab to capture, or hitĬrtl + Shift + Print to capture the active tab. Simply activate region mode Print, then press the Space key.Ĭreates a screenshot of the complete screen.Ĭapture Internet Explorer Control + Shift + PrintĬomfortably creates a screenshot of a web page currently opened in Internet Explorer. To capture a context menu you have just brought up by right-clicking anything, If you used Greenshot's context menu in order to create the screenshot. Shortcut would make the context menu disappear, and obviously the same would happen Afterĭoing so, you can select child elements of the window to be captured.Ĭapturing context menus on their own is different: using the "Capture window" Point the mouse cursor to the window and hit the PgDown key. Viewport (without toolsbars etc.) or a single frame of a web page using framesets) If you want a child window to be captured (e.g. Region mode, Greenshot will highlight the area If this option is selected, you may select a window by clicking it (As in The active window right away, but allowing you to select one interactively. The settings dialog offers an option not to capture Screenshot area slightly larger and to crop the screenshotĪfterwards using Greenshot's image editor.īefore, you can capture the same region again using this option.Ĭreates a screenshot of the window which is currently active. If you want to capture an exact area, it might be easier to select the initial
You can use the Space key to switch between region and 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 systray. You can create a screenshot either by using the Print key on your keyboard
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