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I find paint extremely useful for screenshots. PrintScreen, Win+R, mspaint, crop it, add some red boxes, done. Using the snipping tool is infinitely slower for
by lawl 7y ago
I find paint extremely useful for screenshots. PrintScreen, Win+R, mspaint, crop it, add some red boxes, done.
Using the snipping tool is infinitely slower for me. Win, snipp, click new, select region, click the edit in paint 3d button, wait for Paint3D to open, add boxes.
mspaint opens instantly and is sufficient for basic tasks, that's why I like it when using windows.
- manderley 7y agoYou can bind Snip & Sketch to the Print Screen button in Ease of Access -> Keyboard. This is a new feature in Windows 10 1809.
- Someone1234 7y agoI'm a really big fan of that keyboard shortcut (first time I've used the Print Screen key on purpose in years). On a related note I hope they aren't done developing "Snip & Sketch" it still lacks features from the Snipping tool in 1809 (Delay Granularity, Window Snip, Highlighter, and the new Ruler is buggy as heck).
- munk-a 7y agoThis sounds like heresy, you can pry paint and notepad out of my cold dead hands. Also, while you're at it, no one will need more than 640K of memory.
- krageon 7y agoDoes that work seamlessly even with applications that take over the screen?
- shawnz 7y agoNow you can use Win+Shift+S to capture a screen region, which will put it on your clipboard and also put a notification in the notification area which opens the capture in snipping tool when clicked, where it can be saved to a file.
- joezydeco 7y agoDoes snipping tool allow for drawing lines/boxes over the capture? How about adding notational text?
- LandR 7y agoNot on current Windows 10 (non-insider versions) no. Only freehand pens and some highlighting with a freehand marker. No text at all
- coldacid 7y agoNot even with insiders builds unless it's in 19H2 or later pre-releases.
- jccalhoun 7y agoa couple versions ago they added "snip & sketch" which does. When they released it they said they were getting rid of the snipping tool but they don't seem to have done that yet.
- WalterBright 7y agoYes. It's like Notepad. It's small, lightweight, loads instantly, needs no manual, is available on every machine, and perfect for simple editing tasks.
- staticassertion 7y agoYes, this is 99.99% of the image work that I do. Take a screenshot, add a box. On Ubuntu there is no default tool for this, to my knowledge. I installed `pinta`, and it's way overkill and far more complex than paint. A sane, default, "draw box on image" app is a good thing.
- jolmg 7y agoThe Linux program most similar to Paint that I know of is KolourPaint[1]. If my memory of Paint serves me right (I haven't seen that program in many years), KolourPaint seems pretty much like a clone of Paint. [1] https://kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ https://kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/
- cblum 7y ago> A sane, default, "draw box on image" app is a good thing. Speaking of that, is that still insanely hard to accomplish in Gimp? I haven’t used it in years but I remember being extremely frustrated with it.
- jetrink 7y agoCreate a selection using the rectangular selection tool, then navigate to [Edit->Stroke Selection].
- recrof 7y agothat's far from intuitive
- jzymbaluk 7y agoOnce you've invested the time into getting familiar with Gimp it's not terribly hard, but it's more effort to learn than paint which is dead simple out of the box. Plus Gimp still takes 20+ seconds to start before it's fully useable (even on SSD!), vs paint being ready to go on less than a second
- cr0sh 7y ago
- pjob 7y agoThis is generally my workflow as well. One useful tip is that Alt+PrintScreen will scope the screenshot to only the active/focused window, reducing the need for additional cropping.
- buttcoinslol 7y agoWhy mess around with Paint3D? Shift+ctrl+s, [win key] pai[enter], ctrl+v, resize canvas, alt+f+s, done.
- hnbroseph 7y ago> Why mess around with Paint3D? that's the button available in the snipping app.
- mutagen 7y agoGreenshot [1] is a great open source Windows screenshot utility for the workflow you describe. Prt Scr, select region, editor opens with screenshot where you can add boxes, arrows, etc. and save, copy to clipboard, etc. Like MS Paint, it is lightweight and focused in a way few Windows programs are these days. [1] https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/ https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/
- yardshop 7y agoI like to use the OneNote Screen Clipping tool for this: Win+S, select region, paste into page (or where-ever), add arrows and boxes etc. This works by changing the default Screen Clipping action from adding to a page to just copying to the clipboard, so I can as easily paste into an email or IrfanView or other things. Even good old Paint!
- duxup 7y agoYou gotta try the shipping tool: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-s...
- Grue3 7y agoIrfanView is even faster than MSPaint and has the same functionality.