10 free apps to take screenshots

Applications to take screenshots

Those of us who have been using Windows for a few years, when capturing the screen of our PC we usually use the Print Screen button and later treat it with the Paint application, a cumbersome process especially if the number of captures to be made is high. As the versions of Windows evolved, Microsoft enabled the option of being able to capture the screen and save it automatically through the combination of keys Win + Print Screen. Later we have to go to the album where the screenshots are saved to cut out or highlight the most interesting elements that we want to show.

Applications to take screenshots in Windows

cuts

The Snipping application is an application that is installed natively in Windows and that allows us to limit the part of the screen that we want to cut out and make some small modifications that really don't help us much. On the internet we can find a large number of applications that allow us to modify the captures as soon as we take them to use them directly.

Crop

Crop It is an application that does not offer us many editing options, but thanks to the keyboard shortcuts that it offers, we can quickly capture the areas of the screen that we want, so that we do not have to edit them later.

Lighthot

Lighthot is the ideal application for those users who do not want to complicate their lives when taking screenshots, since its operation is very simple and offers us a large number of basic options.

Greenshot

The main advantage that GreenShot offers us is the speed of operation thanks to the possibility of being able to use keyboard shortcuts to make the adjustments we need. But it also allows us to send the captures directly by mail or to the printer.

Picpick

Picpick if that is the Photoshop of the applications to take video captures. With PicPick we can use the color selector, a color palette, add a magnifying glass, measure the size of the images and objects, measure the angle of the screen ...

ShareX

As its name indicates, ShareX It focuses its advantages on the possibility of sharing all the captures we make almost instantaneously, although it also allows us to make basic modifications to the captures we make.

PrtScr

PrtScr, offers us practically the same editing possibilities as the Cuttings application that is installed natively in Windows, and where our imagination is too short.

WinSnap

We could say that WinSnap It is a kind of Photoshop of the applications to capture the screen, since it offers us the possibility of adding shadow effects, watermarks, modifying colors, eliminating the cursor, erasing the unwanted background.

Applications to take screenshots in the browser

FireShot

If it is about taking screenshots of the browser windows, we can make use of FireShot, as long as we use browsers that support extensions such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The options are limited but to do the role they are more than enough.

Microsoft Edge

Since we are talking about taking screenshots of the browser, we cannot stop talking about the option that Windows 10 natively offers us in the new Edge browser. Although, like the previous option, it hardly offers us editing options, if you only use this browser, the option to capture the screen is ideal.


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