Capture Screen Shots In Vista with Snipping Tool

February 27, 2007 · Filed Under Vista Applications 

Snipping Tool is a new screen grabber tool that comes included with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. It is very straightforward and easy to use and has the following features:

  • Free Form Snip – Allows irregular shaped drawings to be captured from a triangle to a zig zag.
  • Rectangular Snip – Get a perfect rectangle around whatever you want
  • Window Snip – Select a window you would like to capture
  • Full-Screen Snip – Capture your entire desktop

    1. You will find the Snipping Tool under your accessories folder:
    2. When you click on it to start it you will find the screen has a white overlay until you select a snippet:
    3. You can choose how to grab the screen shot from the various tools:
    4. In this case I used the rectangular tool and I just grabbed the middle of my desktop:
    5. When you click you get the captured area in the Snipping Tool Window:
    6. From here you can do markups with highlighters or pen tool using your mouse to mark or write. You can also send to email directly or save it to a file.
    7. Thats it!

    The formats available for saving are:

  • Html
  • Jpeg
  • Png
  • Gif

    • All in all the snipping tool is a great addition for people who have to grab screen shots. While I still like SnagIt because of additional functionality the snipping tool is definitely a great alternative for free.

    Tags:

    No Related Posts Found

    Comments

    One Response to “Capture Screen Shots In Vista with Snipping Tool”

    1. Andrew J Lipinski on April 4th, 2007 2:14 am

      Snipping tool didappeared wondering how to reaquire it ?

      Thanks

    Leave a Reply