Snipping tool? The one where you hit Win+Shift+S, draw a rectangle, and then it snips to your clipboard? That's the "unintuitive" snipping tool you're referring to?
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I didn't know that shortcut. No need to be sarcastic about it. Thanks.
If you go into Windows settings, you can make the print screen button open it. That's what I do on every computer I use regularly.
on my work computer (Windows 11), I'm pretty sure this was the default and I didn't have to configure it to do that? I use this all the time because part of my current job is to send screenshots to people in order to verify that software is working correctly. :D
I think mine started as win10, I set it, and either that's the default in win11, or my setting carried through the update. Im not sure which.
genuinely just trying to clarify! Maybe you were using it for an application that I had not considered, in which it is clunkier. I only use it intermittently for screenshotting random things. At work we use Snagit so I don't have to lean on the Windows snipping tool so much.
I use it often, but not professionally, and it's pretty handy.
sitting in the sam boat at work. I like it even more than flameshot at home.
Upvote for Greenshot. There are others, like ShareX, but Greenshot is very lightweight and functional. Always my goto, I wish most sofware was made like that.
https://flameshot.org/ - Flameshot is available for Windows too. I used it a lot on Linux. It is simple, lightweight and Free and Open Source.
I’ve been happy with both greenshot and shareX
sharex
I can honestly say that I've never had any issues with the winkey+shift+s on win 10, though occasionally I do wonder why they never added more shapes to the toolbar palette. I'm a designer by trade and I used it a lot when working on drawings to keep specs straight. One of the more useful windows utilities in my opinion.
We use snagit at work and it has been ok? I think it's a paid application though
It's been a while but I think I've been using and liking snagit.
Alt + PrintScreen key combo will take a snap of the active window and copy to clipboard without opening snipping tool.
Look no further than Lightshot. It’s free, it can replace the PrntScn button. It lets you draw a rectangle, then add arrows, lines, text, then either copy to clipboard or save to disk.
Then it disappears. No unneeded prompts, no wasting your time, no ads, no upsells. Nothing. Lightweight, simple, and free. It’s like a throwback to the 90’s freeware.
As a software developer working with QA and often having to explain things to others as well, I’ve used this for years. It is the most optimal and efficient software for this purpose.
bandicamera is pretty good, though i just use snipping tool since win7