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MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot pastes, quick edits to blur out s
by chirau 5y ago
MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot pastes, quick edits to blur out stuff before sharing etc.
- jraph 5y ago> Screenshot pastes This is a failure of Windows's screenshot tool though, in my opinion. I find this incredibly clunky. On Plasma/KDE, pressing "print screen" takes a screenshot of the complete screen, and a dialog opens and offers you to copy the screenshot into the clipboard, to save it in a file or to open / edit it with the tool of your choice. You can also take another screenshot of the entire screen, or a window, or an area that you can draw with the mouse, with a delay or not. On other environments, the screenshot is automatically saved in a file without interaction. I'm not a huge fan but this is what you end up doing most of the time on Windows anyway, but by manually pasting in Paint and saving.
- pseudosavant 5y agoPre Windows 10 I'd agree. Try Win+Shift+S on Windows 10.
- jraph 5y agoGood to know, what does it do? Too bad it's not bound to the Print Screen key but I guess it would break many people's workflow.
- gregorkas 5y agoIt allows you to select a region of the screen, then copies it to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it to other programs. It’s the best workflow there is because it requires no other running tools, and the binding is even simpler than ctrl+cmd+shift+4 on MacOS.
- whywhywhywhy 5y agoThe is an option for this in Ease of Use > Keyboard > Print Screen shortcut
- tofflos 5y agoTry Windows-Shift-S if you have the Feature Update for Windows 10 20H2.
- sorenjan 5y agoWin+PrtScr saves the screenshot as a PNG file in Pictures\Screenshots. Windows also ships with a tool called Snipping tool[0], but that now says that it will be replaced by Snip & Sketch [1]. If you want to quickly take a cropped screenshot you can use Win+Shift+S. It only saves to the clipboard, but a lot of places, like imgur and Github, supports pasting images so I often find it more convenient than to have a bunch of old files cluttering the system. [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-too... [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/snip-sketch/9mz95kl8mr0l?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/snip-sketch/9mz95kl8mr0l?a...
- Gene_Parmesan 5y agoSnip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut.
- vecplane 5y agoAlternatively, Paint.NET is the go-to for all of my image needs.