Easily Create Screenshots with the Windows Snipping Tool
[ 23 May 2011 ]
Marked under multimedia, windows.

Many people find they need to create clean screenshots for various purposes. For example, I do it all the time for this blog. Others may do it for instruction manuals, or just to share something on the screen with someone else. Windows comes with a built-in tool to easily take screenshots. Here’s how you can use this tool, the Windows Snipping Tool.

First, open up the Snipping Tool. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping Tool

The tool will pop up and have a few different buttons.

The dropdown arrow on the New button will allow you to pick a certain type of capture.

• Free-form will let you drag a free-form line around anything
• Rectangular will give you a box to re-size
• Window will capture the current active window
• Full-screen will capture everything on the screen

As an example, here’s a Rectangular snip on my website. Just click, drag the box, and drop.

Now the snip will show in the save box. Here you can save it, email it, copy it, or make a new snip.

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