I especially like the ease with which you can capture and output to many different locations:Īnd if you’re working on something where you need to save to a specific output, you can (temporarily) configure it to save to a specific location to make your workflow even more efficient.
Then however I came across Greenshot which is free and really makes it so much easier for me to accomplish creating documentation. I then started using ScreenShotCaptor which provided me with even more options, but it still wasn’t quite what I was looking for with regards to productivity With OneNote you can create a Screen Clipping to be stored in your OneNote notebook, but it requires too many actions in my opinion and is also fairly limited. If I needed to crop something, CTRL+V in Irfanview, select the area and CTRL+Y to crop, CTRL+CĪs you can see, this is still quite a lot of work if you make a lot of screenshots.Since I didn’t have to make many screenshots the workflow would then be: In the past I also used Irfanview, which is a great image viewer. Included in Windows Vista and above, it provides a bit more options than the regular print screen, but it is still very limited.
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And even though it’s a nice addition if you sometimes need to take a screenshot, it still requires a lot of manual work for processing the screenshots and adding them to your desired location. With Windows 8 or 8.1 it’s now possible to use windows key+PrintScrn and then all screenshots will be stored in my “Pictures” folder in my documents.
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Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 print screen options I didn’t really care very much whether the tool would be free or paid, as long as it made my work easier and faster.īelow I’ve included some of the options I’ve explored: Since I also had the need to create many screenshots, I was looking for a tool that provided a lot of functionality without these drawbacks.
Most of them took too much time and effort in my opinion and were actually distracting from the learning itself. Lately I’ve been teaching some classes and I saw many people using many different methods to create, store and share screenshots.
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