4. HOW?

Once Greenshot is installed on your device, you will be free to take several types of captures to suit your requirements. There is no shortage of options here, while a user-friendly design makes Greenshot the most straightforward screenshot solution currently available on the market. 

You can look forward to such screenshot capturing possibilities as:
  • The complete capture of your screen (full screen capture): The most utilised and well-known screenshot type, as well as the most enduring and basic.
  • Capturing a specific window: no need for the whole screen? No worries. This method is ideal if you want to take a screenshot of a single window.
  • Capturing a fixed area: need a capture of a specific location on screen? This is the go-to option for such a requirement, delivering a clean and concise result, every time.
  • Capturing the last area captured: with this superior shortcut, you can reuse the same area previously targeted for capture as you screenshot again. Incredibly practical, this is the big plus of Greenshot for Windows and Mac users, but there is plenty more to come.

Editing an image with Greenshot is easy. You can add text annotations, arrows, and all manner of standard characters with ease.

You only need to contribute the bare minimum of effort when it comes to working on your screenshots, making this practical piece of software an ideal choice for those seeking something to help produce tutorials and training materials.

A handy option that has proved popular when it comes to editing screenshots before output is being able to blur out any areas of the image you wish to render invisible. As you can see, Greenshot truly is the best software for capturing and processing screenshots!

Four simple keyboard shortcuts to use to start making screenshots quickly:

  • Screen print: area
  • Shift + Print: select an area
  • Alt + Print: open window
  • Ctrl + Print: capture the entire screen

Greenshot is free because it is open source (or so-called “free software”) under the GNU General Public Licence and is hosted by GitHub. Greenshot is also available for download from Apple’s App Store (for Mac users) under proprietary licence.

Go to www.getgreenshot.org and download the latest stable release. Once installed, Greenshot will be silently running in the background of your computer.