Capture Screen Shots In Vista with Snipping Tool
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
You will find the Snipping Tool under your accessories folder:
When you click on it to start it you will find the screen has a white overlay until you select a snippet:
You can choose how to grab the screen shot from the various tools:
In this case I used the rectangular tool and I just grabbed the middle of my desktop:
When you click you get the captured area in the Snipping Tool Window:
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.
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.
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April 4th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Snipping tool didappeared wondering how to reaquire it ?
Thanks
May 30th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
It is an optional feature meant for Tablet PC’s. You have to install the whole pack under “Programs” in the Control Panel, and then “Turn Windows Features on and off”, place a check by the Tablet PC Optional components.
That should restore it for you.