This includes uploading the image to or FTP, sending to the Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive cloud services, adding to a Microsoft Office program, or sending to another paint program. PicPick also boasts an extensive Share tab to send the finished image to another program or service. You can also add lines/arrows and shapes of whatever colors and sizes you wish.Ī few effects are available where you can add a frame or shadow, a custom watermark, blur/sharpen, or change the brightness/hue/balance of the image. There are basic options to resize, rotate, draw, erase, fill, add text, and add various stamps. Once an image is captured, you are taken to what is essentially PicPick’s fully fledged paint program. The included capture modes are full screen, active window, Windows control, scrolling window, custom region, fixed region, freehand, and repeat the previous capture. PicPick is free and has a portable version, the paid Pro version is for commercial users. It’s hard to disagree as, besides a screenshot tool, PicPick also incorporates a screen recorder, color picker and palette finder, screen magnifier, screen ruler, coordinate finder crosshair, protractor, and a whiteboard overlay. This is a very powerful free program and the developers say PicPick is an all-in-one design tool. Here are 8 free screenshot tools for you to look at. There are loads of free screenshot tools available on the internet and many have more features that you might find very useful. Windows also has a screenshot tool built in, which we mention below.

A less well known shortcut is pressing Alt+Print Screen which will copy an image of only the active desktop window to the clipboard.

For instance, pressing Print Screen on your keyboard will copy an image of the entire screen to the clipboard which you can then paste into a paint program using Ctrl+V.

Windows has some built in options to take a snapshot of your screen. Capturing a video is an option but that can be a complicated process requiring more time and effort.

That can be whether it’s an error message or proof of an online receipt, among many other things. Taking a screenshot of your PC desktop can be incredibly useful to show someone what you are seeing on your own screen.

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