Snipping tool is a free, small utility made by the Microsoft team to capture screen shots. You can take almost any kind of screenshot with it. Like Snipping Tool in Windows 7 and Windows 8, Windows 10 also lets you take a screenshot of windows. According to Microsoft there are several kinds of snips available like
Free-form snip. Draw a free-form shape around an object.
Rectangular snip. Drag the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.
Window snip. Select a window, such as a browser window or dialogue box, that you want to capture.
Full-screen snip. Capture the entire screen.
How to open the Snipping Tool:
It generates a basic question. Where is the Snipping tool in Windows 10?
The actual app is located in the system32 folder but it can be accessed via the following location:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories
There are many different ways to open the Snipping Tools in Windows 10. The best way to launch it is to use search. In Cortana’s search field from the taskbar. Search by typing Snipping Tools and then click or tap on the appropriate search result.
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Alternatively, if you don’t have indexing enabled and don’t want to use your mouse use Windows Key + R to show the run prompt then enter snipping tool and press enter.
You can simply search it via the start button. Go to the search button and search for snipping tool.
If one is a frequent user of the Snipping Tool, they can create a hotkey for it. To create the hotkey open the System32 folder and right-click on SnippingTool.exe. Select Properties. Here, you can set a hotkey for it.
Download snipping tool for Windows 10
If you already don’t have the Snipping tool download it for Microsoft via websites like Softonic.
How To Take A Screenshot Using The Snipping Tools :
- After launched choose from its four menus
After launching the program it displays a small window with four options.
- Decide on what you’d like to screenshot
Decide on what exactly you’d like to screenshot. Unlike the option print screen, it lets you capture also a specific portion you want to save.
- Hoover the mouse cursor on the desired window
Everything will be dimmed except snipping tools area. There will appear a different cursor. Just drag the cursor on the area you want to take a screenshot of.
Once you have your screenshot captured, you can either save it to your PC as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file
Microsoft has made slight changes for snipping tool in Windows 10 than it was in Vista. It has now added a delay timer to it.
- Open up the Snipping tool to find the utility.
- Click the option delay placed right after the option “new”.
- Click the down bar and choose your delay time from 0-5 seconds. Deciding on your option it will take time between clicking and actually screenshot the picture.
- You can also click a snip mode by hitting the down arrow besides new and choosing a snip mode (Free-form, Rectangular, Window or Full-screen).
How to Edit a Screenshot in the Snipping Tool
The editing window offers a whole set of tools to customise your recent captured shot.
Before saving your screenshot click on the pen button. After you select the down bar if offers you a variety of colour to choose from. You can also use the highlighter button to highlight any portion of your taken screenshot. To save the snip press the save snip button and store it where ever you want.
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You mail email a screenshot by using a send snip button on the toolbar. But It is capable of sending screenshots via email only if you are using desktop email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird.
How to customise the Snipping Tool
When you start the Snipping tool, you can click on the options button to set your preferences on how the app should work.
Hide Instruction Text – hide the instruction text in the main Snipping Tool window.
Always copy snips to the Clipboard – copy all captures to the Windows clipboard so you can paste them into other applications.
Include URL below snips (HTML only) – save your snips as a Single File HTML or MHT documents. If a snip is taken from an Internet Explorer window, it also shows the URL of the webpage included in the screenshot.
Prompt to save snips before exiting – give you a hint if you have any captures that are not saved, before to closing the program.
Show screen overlay when Snipping Tools – if disabled, when you are taking a screenshot, the Snipping.
Tool transparent overlay is no longer shown on the screen.
The second section, named Selection, allows you to make a few settings regarding the colour palette:
Ink Colour – changes the colour of the selection border when you create a snip.
Show selection ink after snips are captured – when enabled, the selection border is shown around the snip, using the colour selected in the “Ink Color” list.
Alternative apps
There are several alternative free apps of snipping tool like PicPick which allows you to modify your screenshots as well as has some unique capture mode and Greenshot which excels at sharing captured images, with built-in integration for most of the popular file sharing services and social networks.