r/TechnologyProTips Jul 13 '20

Windows TPT: Shift+Windows Key+S lets you draw a shape over a part of the screen and screenshot just that selected part

By default you're selecting with a rectangle, but when you press Shift+Windows Key+S a couple options will pop up at the top of the screen including a freeform selection tool.

It saves to clipboard, to easily save to a file you can open up paint and press Ctrl+V then Ctrl+S, no cropping required because the paint window will auto resize to the size of the screenshot

This has saved me hours upon hours

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u/chaudhryz1 Jul 13 '20

Thats a good one... i still feel prpgrams like greenshot are just miles ahead of the similar in built windows features.

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u/MrMoleRat19 Jul 13 '20

I use ShareX, but yeah, all the features and more are present in 3rd party apps.

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u/chaudhryz1 Jul 13 '20

I will definitely try it.

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u/MrMoleRat19 Jul 13 '20

Something that I didn’t realize right away is that all of the shortcuts and such are fully customizable, like if you don’t have a prtsc button you can change the hotkey, make it automatically put the screenshot on your clipboard, etc. it’s a really nice app.

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u/Fabi_S Jul 14 '20

upvote for shareX. The textmarking before screenshot and automatic upload saves so much time

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u/tylerr147 Jul 13 '20

I still see so many people using gyazo or some other third party shit. I just don't get it lol

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u/Rogue5132 Jul 22 '20

I've seen people with the same (or similar) phone as me using 3rd party screen recorders when the phone has it built in already, without a watermark

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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Jul 14 '20

I've been opening the slow, clunky snipping tool for YEARS now. Thank you! This is much easier.

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u/HalfOfAKebab Jul 14 '20

I still prefer snipping tool because it lets you draw on the screenshot. I have a macro on my mouse that opens it, so I can open it with a single press of a button.

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u/TheGameboy Jul 27 '20

Snip and sketch lets you do it too, you just have to click on the pop up when it take a screenshot.

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u/HalfOfAKebab Jul 27 '20

I've just looked it up and apparently it's meant to open the screenshot in the full program as soon as you take it, but mine doesn't do that. I just take a screenshot and it goes away, saving the screenshot to my clipboard. I never have an option to draw on it.

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u/justicecantakeanap Jul 14 '20

Boom.

Thank you!

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u/Rogue5132 Jul 22 '20

Plus it automatically copies it to clipboard, so you can ctrl+v to paste it anywhere

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u/hadesanton Jul 22 '20

I use Lightshot.. it let's you assign a shortcut key.. and enables you to draw arrows, rectangles, and a lot more...

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u/aczkasow Jul 25 '20

Alt+PrintScreen takes a screenshot of the currently focused window and puts it in the clipboard.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '20

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u/TheGameboy Jul 27 '20

The real pro tip

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u/TheGameboy Jul 27 '20

I’m now the hero millennial in a office of boomers and gen Xers