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You might be interested in switching to Greenshot. The workflows that you described will go much quicker since it pops up a menu of quick actions to take after

You might be interested in switching to Greenshot. The workflows that you described will go much quicker since it pops up a menu of quick actions to take after you press Print Scrn. For screenshots that you want to review later, you just tell Greenshot to save directly to a file that it automatically names with a timestamp. To do quick edits, you can open your screenshot in the built-in editor. Or, you can open them in Paint.NET or any other editor.

LeifCarrotson 9y ago
It took me a few minutes to compose the same reply. Try Greenshot: http://getgreenshot.org/ http://getgreenshot.org/ It's open-source, no-nonsense, free software. It takes your 9 keystrokes plus multiple clicks to crop down to one key: PrtScn. The built-in image editor is optimized for the things that you need to do with screenshots. Here's a quick guide I threw together: https://i.imgur.com/tcpZjG0.png https://i.imgur.com/tcpZjG0.png Yeah, it was a bit of a mind-bender editing a screenshot of the screenshot editor with the screenshot editor...
- vram22 9y ago
  >Yeah, it was a bit of a mind-bender editing a screenshot of the screenshot editor with the screenshot editor... Ha ha, I had the same thought just now, after trying out the (plain) PrintScreen command in DanBC's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839229 Before that, I'd always used just Alt-PrintScreen to take a screenshot of only a specific window, not the whole screen. So, to try it, I arranged a few app windows in cascaded style (including Paint itself), then did PrintScreen, then pasted the screenshot of Paint (plus other apps) into Paint ... Who GNU that ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU