Best kept secret in Windows 7 & 8
A friend shared with me about a neat little program included in Windows 7 & 8. It is called "Snipping Tool", you can find it by doing a search from your start button or search box. When you find i...
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Windows "snipping tool" first made its appearance in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. It was also in Vista.
Command-Shift-4 can only do one thing; capture a rectangular region that one selects by dragging the cursor.
Command-Shift-3 captures the entire screen.
After Command-Shift-4, if one taps the spacebar, the cursor becomes a camera. If one move the camera to any portion of any window, clicking will capture that window, even if the window is almost completely covered. It also allows one to capture menus or other "actions".
Since I write a lot of tutorials, the latter is important to me.
For those that have trouble remembering keyboard shortcuts, MAC OSX includes a Grab utility with those functions and a "Timed" capture that captures the screen 10 seconds after the capture button is clicked. That allows one to activate portions of the screen for the capture. For example, that would allow me to include the cursor in the above picture.
One would have to go to third-party software to get a free-forum capture for MAC OSX.
It is my experience, almost anything I want to do on one platform, I can do on another - sometimes easier, sometimes less so. For much of my work, I find the keyboard shortcuts quicker.
Tom
Dutch_12078 wrote:Altern wrote:
Yawn, humph ...Its Command/Shift/4 on a Mac.
Been that-a-way for years, grasshopper....:C
Does Command/Shift/4 let you select between a full-screen, window, rectangular, or free-form capture? The Windows Snipping Tool does...
Command-Shift-4 can only do one thing; capture a rectangular region that one selects by dragging the cursor.
Command-Shift-3 captures the entire screen.
After Command-Shift-4, if one taps the spacebar, the cursor becomes a camera. If one move the camera to any portion of any window, clicking will capture that window, even if the window is almost completely covered. It also allows one to capture menus or other "actions".
Since I write a lot of tutorials, the latter is important to me.
For those that have trouble remembering keyboard shortcuts, MAC OSX includes a Grab utility with those functions and a "Timed" capture that captures the screen 10 seconds after the capture button is clicked. That allows one to activate portions of the screen for the capture. For example, that would allow me to include the cursor in the above picture.
One would have to go to third-party software to get a free-forum capture for MAC OSX.
It is my experience, almost anything I want to do on one platform, I can do on another - sometimes easier, sometimes less so. For much of my work, I find the keyboard shortcuts quicker.
Tom
