What is Snipping Tool?

Snipping Tool is a widely used screen capturing tool nowadays. To delve into the details of this tool, readers are invited to follow the article below by Mytour.

What is Snipping Tool? Guide on how to save and send images
 

1. What is the Snipping Tool?

Snipping Tool is a tool used to capture screen images and save them to the computer. Moreover, users can perform other options like copying images.

2. Where to Find the Snipping Tool?

To locate the Snipping Tool, users can follow these steps:
Step 1: Press the Windows key
Step 2: Type Snipping tool in the search bar
Step 3: Press Enter or select the Snipping tool icon from the search results
Step 4: Open the Snipping tool and start using it

3. How to Capture Screens with Snipping Tool?

There are 4 screen capture options available in the Snipping Tool, which are:
- Free-form Snip: Draw any shape around the object or area you want to capture.
- Rectangular Snip: Capture a screen in rectangular form, by dragging the cursor around the object.
- Window Snip: Select a window (such as a web browser) or dialog box (such as an error message from an application) and capture the screen.
- Full-screen Snip: Capture the entire screen, similar to the Print Screen key.

4. How to Save and Send Images.

3.1. Capturing Screens with Free-form Snip Option

Step 1: Open Snipping Tool

Step 2: Click on Mode, select Free-form Snip

Step 3: Select New
Step 4: Click and hold the left mouse button, drag the mouse to outline the area you want to capture, then release the mouse to take the snapshot.

3.2. Capturing Screens with Rectangular Snip Option

For the Rectangular Snip option, users follow a similar process to capturing with Free-form Snip, but in the Mode, select Rectangular Snip.

3.3. Capturing Screens with Window Snip Option

Step 1: Open Snipping Tool, click on Mode, select Window Snip

Step 2: Select New
Step 3: Hover over the window to capture
Step 4: Left-click to take the snapshot.

3.4. How to Capture Screen using Full-screen Snip Option

For the Rectangular Snip option, users follow similar steps as with Free-form Snip, but in Mode, select Full-screen Snip. However, there's no need to outline the area to capture as this captures the entire screen, providing the image directly after choosing Full-screen Snip mode.

4. Saving and Sending Screen Captures after Using Snipping Tool

After capturing the image, you'll have 3 other options: Print, Send via email, and Save to computer.

+ Saving Images
Step 1: Choose File
Step 2: Select Save as
Step 3: Choose where to save the image when a window appears.
Step 4: Type the name you want to give the image, then press Save.
You can save the image in 3 formats: JPEG, GIFF, and HTML.

+ Printing Images
Step 1: Choose File then select Print
Step 2: When the window appears, select the printer
Step 3: Click Print.

+ Sending Captured Images
Step 1: Click on File, choose Send to
Step 2: When a new window appears, select Email Recipient
Step 3: The email software will then open with the email and the screen capture as an attached file.

Here, Mytour.vn has just provided detailed information about the Snipping Tool screen capture tool as well as some basic instructions for using this tool. If there are any questions or inquiries such as which screen capture software is good?, readers can leave their comments below the article!