![]() I did have one problem when using Greenshot, which occurred I tried to capture an entire Internet Explorer window. As someone who captures a lot of screenshots that contain email addresses and other personal info, I find this tool invaluable, and it’s easier to use than a similar feature offered by SnagIt. Included among its editing options is “Obfuscate,” which lets you render a section of the screen unreadable by pixelation or blurring. Greenshot’s built-in image editor is more basic than SnagIt’s, though it does offer one feature that is very useful. This menu pops up as soon as you capture a screen, and allows you to choose between saving the image, opening it in Greenshot’s image editor, copying it to the clipboard, sending it to your printer, uploading it to Imgur, or opening it in a variety of programs, such as Microsoft Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, Excel, or Paint, or Mozilla Thunderbird. Greenshot gives you a few more options in terms of sending your captured screen to other programs or places with the destination picker. When you capture a screen in SnagIt, that program automatically opens the image in its editor, which is a full-featured editing tool. ![]() Greenshot offers most of the same features as a commercial screen capture program SnagIt, a $50 rival, offers these same capture options, but adds a few more, such as the ability to capture just a menu, text from a Window, images from a Web page, and recording video from the screen. If you choose to capture a region, Greenshot lets you select it with a green overlay that makes it easy to pick the area you’d like to capture. You simply press your assigned hotkey and the capture is done. Greenshot can capture a region of your screen, the last region you selected with Shift & Print Screen, one program window with Alt & Print Screen, the full screen with Ctrl & Print Screen, or an Internet Explorer window with Ctrl & Shift & Print Screen. I did so easily in the program’s settings menu, and within minutes I was up and running. ![]() In my case, the Print Screen key was already assigned to another screen capture program, so Greenshot notified me that I’d need to choose a new one. By default, the program uses the “Print Screen” key (sometimes marked Prnt Scr) as its hotkey pressing that key in combination with another key (such as Alt or Ctrl) allows for different types of screen capture. Greenshot downloads and installs easily, and requires little to no setup. But after using it, I’m a believer: Greenshot may not be perfect, but this free tool has me wondering why I’d ever pay for one like it again. I have to admit I was skeptical about Greenshot, a free, open-source screenshot tool that claims to be as full-featured as similar paid programs. ![]()
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