You don't know what favour you have done to me. I am very grateful to you for making this video and to youtube for suggesting me the video. I was using shareX on my Windows 11 and it was not working properly, so I was searching for alternatives, but I did not find any software that can screenshot the active window with a hotkey. But this software perfectly does that. Huge blessings to your channel. Thank you so much once again.
Love it. I have been looking for a screenshot tool to use on my Linux boxes with similar features as Greenshot, which I have been using for many years and Ksnip checks all the boxes. Thanks for the tip!
You are a legend! I use the snipping tool in windows all the time and this is great to be able to keep multiple snips without having to paste to a word document. :) Thank you!
Windows 10/11 does have a clipboard history that can hold up to 25 items, including screenshots (which can be automatically saved to the pictures/screenshots folder); I use it almost daily. It can be activated by pressing Win+V if not already enabled; if enabled already it will show a list of what's in the clipboard
I've been looking for something like this, I used to use ShareX for screenshots before I moved to Linux. The problem with ShareX is that it isn't natively built for Linux and has problems under WINE. Thanks a ton for finding this!
I had a similar journey - after switching mostly to Linux I was forced find a new screenshot solution. This is by far my favorite that I have found. Flameshot is similar but without the tabs and loading of images back, so that would be my #2 choice
@@freewarefocus I was using flameshot too, haha. I had multiple problems with bindings for flameshot, as half the time they never worked. This already has been working flawlessly, and it is even faster than ShareX. Good ol' Print Screen can thrive again.
@@JayJr.I will check Faststone but we are also using Greenshot at work and I don’t like it too much. At my previous work we had Hypersnap and the most useful feature are the horizontal and vertical stripping options that neither Greenshot nor this one seem to have. Those features allow you take a large size screenshot (website, program, etc.) and then crop out the often empty or irrelevant middle parts to just keep the edges. Think of a program with a tree navigation on the left and another thing on the right, or a website where you want to show the URL and something on the page but there is a large floating header in between, etc.
@@PH4RX This is the first time I heard about HyperSnap, it appears to have a fully built-in editor, like Faststone and Greenshot. Unfortunately, like Fastone, it is not open source, and HyperSnap version 9 is a paid upgrade from version 8. Hopefully, they won't start to charge for "subscriptions," which I would refuse to pay unless I have no other choice. The issue with Greenshot is that the last version was issued in 2017, but that doesn't bother me because it does all that I need and want; it is an open-source and very light app. FastStone is also a great app; in fact it can record the screen. I think you can crop within Greenshot if I understand you correctly. I always do that for my documents: I start by taking a screenshot and opening it within the built-in "Image Editor.", where I can crop it using the crop tool, make annotations, blur confidential info, type and colour text, then I take a screenshot of the screenshot, or the cropped image and paste it to yet another Greenshot editor windows, or the whole screenshot I just composed. You can take as many screenshots of your screenshots as you need to make your own image. Perhaps not as efficient as HyperSnap, but that works well for me. I will try HyperSnap when I get a chance, just for fun. :)
I've used Greenshot for long time, and still install it sometimes on new computers. Sadly, Greenshot is no longer maintained since a few years and this is never a good sign. Ksnip might be the first similar alternative to it. I will give it a try soon, and thanks for this detailed video showing the features. The click counter and the blur tool very essential for me. I create documentations weekly.
I love Greenshot and have used it for years, but it's Windows-only and I switched to Linux a few months ago so I need a replacement. I've tried several and so far I've kept Spectacle, but it's not perfect and a bit confusing. I'll definitely try out Ksnip.
@@Bonez0r I always think of moving away from MS Win, but so far I couldn't "jump off" the boat. Today, Linux is a good alternative, so ksnip should be the best replacement.
Windows has a pretty good, but simple one built in, use Shift + Win key + S and mark the area you want to screenshot, click the image that pops up in the taskbar to open it in the editor to save, if you want to edit, do what editing you want, if you need to paste it after editing, its all ready to go without doing a repaste from the editor
I am wkth you. THE only screenshot tool in windows needed. It do what a screenshot tool should do complet screen or select afeas. No faby stuff no image or painter stuff like shown here. In biuld nativ good to gp.
For several years, I've been using a much simpler program called Light Screen which has been OK for my needs. But what this program does is really game changing!
Nice features, will dig more about the OCR, I take lots of screenshots and the hard part is finding them after long time. I currently use Paperless but is quite convoluted process, saving the screenshot with applied ocr could really save lot of time.
There's lot's of groovy graphic tools fo sho and depending on a person's application that would be great. That said, one feature that Win 11 Snippit has that this is missing is for people like me who are trying to decipher images or charts that have both English and foreign languages on them. Snippit has a great OCR tool that will isolate ALL text no matter what language or no matter if the text is mixed in with a noisy background. The archetecture is very good at identifying that text and once you run that you can then copy all of that text and paste it into google translate or into a text document. It is a very very high powered OCR. For me this is an invaluable tool. Snipit also has many graphic tweaks to play with , perhaps not as many as this ap but other than novelty they are enough for me. Thanks for the video.
Very good point about the great OCR features in Windows Snip. I am about 80% Linux now-a-days, however, so I favor cross platform tools. BUT one big failing of ksnip is OCR so that is one of those situations where Windows is still in the lead. Thanks for letting me & others know about the OCR power of Snip!
@@freewarefocus Man, I really need to make the LInux plunge.. Totally agree with you there. The OCR feature may not even matter to many people but for those who have a need for it, it is defininitely the best I have encountered especially when you have a very busy/blurred image that has text, any language too. I run into a lot of situations where the image has multiple Japanese /Chinese/ Korean characters, sometimes all of the above, some large, some miniscule and the snippit OCR will decipher it all and give you a copyable text option. For anyone that wants to know how to use it, open Snippit, Highlight a part of an image or alll of it (there's lots of options on that front too) but after you've selected your 'snip' an options window will pop up, at the top of the page, near the middle and to the left of the back arrow icon, there is a little icon (no pop-up to idenfify the name) it looks like a (it's hard to describe) like a squarish icon with lines in the middle) Sorry about the strange description it would be much easier to describe if there was a name associated with the icon, in any case, click that, it will find all text within your selected area and highlight it, once highlighted it will give you the option to copy the text. Sorry for the long description but ultimately if you have a use for this technology it is very very reliable. Cheers. Oh, one other thing I've forgotten, Once that pop-up screen appears you can also click the Three dots and import a pre-existing image without having to scan..
You are right. Although not perfect. tools like this really help those transitioning from Microsoft. Since I am about 80% Linux and 20% Windows now-a-days, having one cross platform tool that meets my needs is clutch in helping the transition
Flameshot is quite good and is my second favorite screen tool. ShareX on Windows only is also good too. I am glad people are listing their favorite tools because there are several good options and people have differ needs and preferences
Nice, gonna use it on Linux instead oft the basic default one. BUT would have been really really nice if it also had the option to take a so called scrolling screenshot. A feature that I quite often need.
I agree - one workaround - in my case I really only do scrolling capture for the web and so I use Firefox who’s print capture saves a scroll to a PNG image file and then just open it in ksnip for markup
Thanks buddy, I'm a fan of GreenShot, but this looks like a great alternative. BTW this is the BEST live wallpaper I've ever seen 😍 Watched your video on live wallpapers but couldn't find this specific one. Any advice where I can find it? 🙏
For Wallpaper Engine it is called Galaxy Home 4k #9 -there is a whole series of "Galaxy Home", all pretty strong if you like the look of #9. They are all posted by the user Threepwood on Steam
FastStone Capture, whilst has a price ($19.99), does all this and much more.... much, much more - and for the cost of 4 beers.... and, no I'm not getting paid for FSCapture bump. And FSCapture can save images in it's own format - .fsc (as well as other formats), and can be later recalled and edited, whereas a jpg or png can't be edited after. That being said, KSnip looks like a useful utility.
FastStone is very nice and I like they didn’t do the subscription thing. My main gripe is Windows Only (I am like 80% Linux now-a-days). However a top pick for Windows
Prefer Greenshot (for Windows). It's lightweight, small install file, very fast and responsive, and it takes up less than 6MB of disk space after install. By comparison, ksnip will take up over 150MB disk space once installed. Ksnip has a few extra features, but nothing most can't do without.
Great tool, however, there is one feature I am missing here -- I would like to be able to save a screenshot in the ksnip native image format, so that I am able to edit the screenshot later, like change a selection, remove an arrow or modify numbering etc. Unfortunately -- once you save a png you are done - everything is permanently printed in image.
It is called Galaxy Home 4k and is one of the thousands of wallpapers available for Wallpaper Engine (about $4 on Steam). Wallpaper Engine is highly recommended if you run Windows & are in the Steam ecosystem
I love Snagit too but after having paid for it for a decade it got the boot this year with ksnip. It's lack of support for Linux was the finally nail since Windows is fading fast in my rear view mirror
Assuming you mean the black edge it places around the corners. Yeah even Microsoft's snip does that - I don't know of one that doesn't. If you find one please post here, I would love to know myself
What I want is a snipping tool that I can tell when to snap - i.e. I can start it ready to snap on an infinite delay and then trigger it when the moment is right. Essential for screenshots from videos without having to download the video first.
If doing this manually you could set up a global hot key for Current Screen or Active Window and then just tap the key to take a shot. Because ksnip is designed for you to mark up the image, the interface will probably get in the way, however. You might be better off with a much simpler tool which just saves them to a file directly with no user interaction
In Linux mint you can just press the PRNT SCRN key to capture the whole screen, or press it with the shift key to select the area to capture. Nothing to install.
This software is really about marking up the screen shots quickly and efficiently for training/tech support purposes. Just today I did 10+ tutorial screen shots - so I need something that can illustrate how to do things on a computer and get it out to people fast
Hi. Just tried it on my Windows 11 machine. It is having HUGE problems with the geometry of the desktop: I have one screen at 4K using 175% scale, and another one, the main panel of my laptop in a 1080p-or-so 16:10 resolution, using 150% scaling. When selecting a rectangle to screenshot, it is failing to take the scaling into account. So, I think that unless you have a trivial, 1-screen 100% scale (1:1) on Windows, it is not going to work. I'll see if there is a bug report for this one and if not I'll report, but I think will take quite some time to fix as it is not a trivial problem: scaling has been available on Windows for quite some time. Too bad, back to Snipping Tool (which has its own issues, such as totally borking colors (gamma) under HDR screens).
It seems quite comprehensive, but it is lacking timed capture. This is important for those menus and fly-outs that are only shown when active. ie try to capture the menu from ksnip;s own menu.
Set ksnip to not hide it's window during capture and change the global hot key to something that doesn't use Alt (which will close the menu). For example try Ctrl Shift R for Rectangle Clipping. It does fine and can screen shot it's own menus
That is a Wallpaper Engine - that and a free alternative are listed in this video: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Do you know of any bulk image optimiser that compresses all the images in a folder? I'd love if it had defaults that just work without having to specify how much compression should be applied for different images with different resolutions and extensions (png, jpeg).
@@freewarefocusthanks for the recommendation! I forgot to mention a very important requirement for me: the conversion should NOT change the metadata of the files (file created and modified date, date taken, location tags, etc.). I looked into Converseen but didn't find such option.
@@BakrAli10 Check out the open source exiftool (command line). Would be another step but you should be able to batch re-add the EXIF metadata back into new files from the originals. At that point I would probably create a batch file to call ImageMagik directly and then exiftool to fix them up. Just Google for command line examples
You can find out about how I run animated wallpapers in the video below and the start button replacement program is called Open Shell (free and open source): Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
I've been using TechSmith Screen Capture (formerly Jing) for years. But I've downloaded it and give it a go. BUT, what I really want to know, is where did Freeware Focus, get that wallpaper of the bedroom in space? I want it!!!
Long story short that one is Wallpaper Engine but there are free alternatives - just published a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for WIndows & Linux (Gnome & KDE) th-cam.com/video/pn7HpUvX5a4/w-d-xo.html
I use the OCR (extract text from image) feature quite often. Looks like the feature is an additional plug-in and seems to have "issues". Sharex for me on windows.
That is one on Wallpaper Engine but you can also use a free program for video all paper too - here is a video on it: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
I guess its user error, but when i select rectangular area, I get the selection pointer/target magnifier thing, and I can drag a rectangle, but... as soon as the process starts, my entire screen seems to zoom to like 8x normal so I can only select from the top/left 1/8th of my screen...... I would not mind it being so zoomed in if the 'view' scrolled with the mouse, but nope. selecting active window gets a perfect grab, and current screen gets a perfect grab, its just 'rectangle' thats not working for me.
@@freewarefocus 4k, windows left at 100% scale, so fairly normal and as said it's only on rectangle not when I grab a full screen or active window. I3 built in graphics so intel drivers. I've been a paint shop pro user since free disks and that has the same issue on a screen grab on any setting, do for full screen i get the top corner, seemed to be 1/9 th of the total area like the screen is being seen as a 3x3 grid
That particular one is from Wallpper engine but there are free and open source alternatives too - here is a video on that stuff: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
That is one on wallpaper engine but you can run video wallpapers for free too - here is an video I did on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Great video and liked the software, so downloaded and tried it out. Most everything works, EXCEPT I can not get it to print to my printer! Searched for a solution and did not find one. Even installed it again, no luck.
Short answer Wallpaper Engine, long answer with free & paid alternatives for Windows and Linux is in this video: th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
No it is like all the other I tried - even Microsoft's snip does that so not sure there is fix other bringing the image into an editor and cleaning it up
@@freewarefocus I looked there and did not see this image. Is the image showing on your desktop animated? I only want to find the image. My PC's resources cannot afford animated images. I struggle enough with memory and page file assist. Thus I only want the image as a still image. Do you know wher I can find this? As I said, I looked on your other video and I am either blind in one eye or can't see out the other.
Your right, it doesn't. However if you are capturing a long scrolling web page, just use Firefox and add the screen capture to the toolbar. It will save the entire web page to your Downloads folder as a PNG and then you can use the File Open in Ksnip to open it up and mark it up as you like.
Great video, and I was almost going to give up on my (paid-for) snagIt, when I came to that same conclusion. For my job, I regularly need those large screenshots that don't fit on one monitor-screen. Maybe the will add it in the future.
Pretty limited Wayland support. For example, the global hotkeys don't work I believe. Hopefully the devs are working on better support since Wayland is wave of the future
I didn’t see anything about doing multiple captures or did I miss it? In other words, I want to do as many captures as needed before the actual program screen opens up, showing me each one.
I don't think so, I would probably set up a Macro to spam the print screen hotkey at whatever interval you need. I use kdenlive as a cross platform screen recorder for video but that probably isn't what you need
Good recommendation, thanks. Seems to be very much what I want. A question that arose for me is that, in playing around in Mint, I got stuck using crop - made a selection then couldn’t find how to go back/ deselect … early days, so don’t really expect an answer, but anything I might obviously be doing wrong?
I wonder if you have part of the interface off the bottom of the screen. You should normally see in the lower left a magnifying glass and next to it number to scale the image. The reason I think that is once you go into crop mode that area changes and in the lower right there is an Apply or Cancel button which is how you confirm your crop
For any sort of light to medium video work on any platform, I use Kdenlive (free/open source). Just add your videos then right click in the media pool area and select "Add Title Clip". If you want to get fancy several videos show you how to animate them, just search "kdenlive title"
This software seems great and I want to use it, but it behaves strange on the i3wm: every time I want to take a screenshot, the program pops out even if it was minimized or was on the other screen. I tries unticking different boxes in the setting, but nothing seems to work for me
I don't run i3wm so can't share any experiences. Linux is a bit of a challenge with all of the flavors of desktops and underlying technologies. As a backup you might try Flameshot, which is my second favorite screenshot tool (also free, open source, cross platform, etc).
@@freewarefocus I found the issue. The default action for launching it from system tray was to show the editor. This program is great, it's exactly what I need as a teacher.
@@chotabomjvonychi3485 Glad you found the issue and thanks for letting me know about i3wm - I hadn't really ever heard of it and now it is on my "to be checked out" list :)
On the right and bottom (if needed) you have scroll bars so you can pan around the image. At the bottom of the interface are zoom controls to scale the image down visually and at the top is a Crop button to actually trim the image to a smaller size - hope that helps
That is one on Wallpaper Engine but you can run video wallpapers like that for free with other programs too - here is a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)* th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Yes the ksnip-1.10.1-windows dot zip file seems to work as a portable version. Haven't tested it extensively however. Often times with portable software the Global Hotkeys won't work but it should work with the interface up and it's built in keys for the basic functions, if nothing else
Thank you! I'm sure it's very helpful. I just wondered if you can capture more than a screen, like scrolling? something like the feature that snagit has for capturing a long page?
Hello. Looks very promising. We checked it on a Mac and it looks there are issues. It's just not appear after give the approval to record the screen. I will check it on Windows also today as it is something I'm waiting already long long times.
so on Mac when I selected the rectangle screenshot it opens new macos desktop and allowed me to screenshot the empty desktop :) also the shortcuts seems disabled on Mac, and for whatever reasons the app is in Polish :D I can't find how to change it
What MacOS version are you on and are you Intel or Mx CPU? Just trying to see if there is a trend with issues. Not a Mac person so hoping others feedback will help - thanks!
It doesn't have scrolling capture so it is useless to me. Both ShareX and Shottr are the standard for me. Have the features that I need and aren't intrusive like this one it seems.
i don`t heavily use screenshots on my Debian but just because this app deserves to be recognised, I install it. Well done creators.
You don't know what favour you have done to me. I am very grateful to you for making this video and to youtube for suggesting me the video. I was using shareX on my Windows 11 and it was not working properly, so I was searching for alternatives, but I did not find any software that can screenshot the active window with a hotkey. But this software perfectly does that. Huge blessings to your channel. Thank you so much once again.
Ive used ShareX on my Windows PC for over 7 years with zero issues. It is weird that you are running into problems. Interesting.....
Been using ShareX for years and currently running it on Win 11 with no issues.
Love it. I have been looking for a screenshot tool to use on my Linux boxes with similar features as Greenshot, which I have been using for many years and Ksnip checks all the boxes. Thanks for the tip!
You are a legend! I use the snipping tool in windows all the time and this is great to be able to keep multiple snips without having to paste to a word document. :) Thank you!
Windows 10/11 does have a clipboard history that can hold up to 25 items, including screenshots (which can be automatically saved to the pictures/screenshots folder); I use it almost daily. It can be activated by pressing Win+V if not already enabled; if enabled already it will show a list of what's in the clipboard
I've never heard of this program before. This is MOST useful. Thanks.
I've been looking for something like this, I used to use ShareX for screenshots before I moved to Linux. The problem with ShareX is that it isn't natively built for Linux and has problems under WINE. Thanks a ton for finding this!
I had a similar journey - after switching mostly to Linux I was forced find a new screenshot solution. This is by far my favorite that I have found. Flameshot is similar but without the tabs and loading of images back, so that would be my #2 choice
@@freewarefocus I was using flameshot too, haha. I had multiple problems with bindings for flameshot, as half the time they never worked. This already has been working flawlessly, and it is even faster than ShareX. Good ol' Print Screen can thrive again.
I also used sharex as a .gif recorder. Is there a free one for Mac you'd recommend?
Gnome Shell has one built in. Look in your keyboard shortcuts configuration
@@smthngsmthngsmthngdarkside That is if you use gnome, personally, I use KDE Plasma 6.
Nothing will ever replace Faststone Capture on Windows. I have used it a dozen times a day for years and still discovering new uses for it.
Faststone is good, but I believe Greenshot is better and I have used it for the last 5+ years, at work (heavily) and at home.
@@JayJr.I will check Faststone but we are also using Greenshot at work and I don’t like it too much.
At my previous work we had Hypersnap and the most useful feature are the horizontal and vertical stripping options that neither Greenshot nor this one seem to have.
Those features allow you take a large size screenshot (website, program, etc.) and then crop out the often empty or irrelevant middle parts to just keep the edges.
Think of a program with a tree navigation on the left and another thing on the right, or a website where you want to show the URL and something on the page but there is a large floating header in between, etc.
@@PH4RX This is the first time I heard about HyperSnap, it appears to have a fully built-in editor, like Faststone and Greenshot. Unfortunately, like Fastone, it is not open source, and HyperSnap version 9 is a paid upgrade from version 8. Hopefully, they won't start to charge for "subscriptions," which I would refuse to pay unless I have no other choice. The issue with Greenshot is that the last version was issued in 2017, but that doesn't bother me because it does all that I need and want; it is an open-source and very light app. FastStone is also a great app; in fact it can record the screen.
I think you can crop within Greenshot if I understand you correctly. I always do that for my documents: I start by taking a screenshot and opening it within the built-in "Image Editor.", where I can crop it using the crop tool, make annotations, blur confidential info, type and colour text, then I take a screenshot of the screenshot, or the cropped image and paste it to yet another Greenshot editor windows, or the whole screenshot I just composed. You can take as many screenshots of your screenshots as you need to make your own image. Perhaps not as efficient as HyperSnap, but that works well for me. I will try HyperSnap when I get a chance, just for fun. :)
Use it daily 😊 Really useful
Same here. FastStone still rules.
A very well done video with extremely useful content. This will make a huge difference for me in both process and software documentation.
I've used Greenshot for long time, and still install it sometimes on new computers. Sadly, Greenshot is no longer maintained since a few years and this is never a good sign. Ksnip might be the first similar alternative to it. I will give it a try soon, and thanks for this detailed video showing the features. The click counter and the blur tool very essential for me. I create documentations weekly.
I am old Greenshot user too. So sad it was closed source and abandoned :(
I love Greenshot and have used it for years, but it's Windows-only and I switched to Linux a few months ago so I need a replacement. I've tried several and so far I've kept Spectacle, but it's not perfect and a bit confusing. I'll definitely try out Ksnip.
@@Bonez0r I always think of moving away from MS Win, but so far I couldn't "jump off" the boat. Today, Linux is a good alternative, so ksnip should be the best replacement.
@@freewarefocus Me too.
Looks like a continuation of Greenshot. Hopefully it's well maintained!
Windows has a pretty good, but simple one built in, use Shift + Win key + S and mark the area you want to screenshot, click the image that pops up in the taskbar to open it in the editor to save, if you want to edit, do what editing you want, if you need to paste it after editing, its all ready to go without doing a repaste from the editor
God bless you. I read about this 25 years ago and then forgot the key sequence.
I am wkth you. THE only screenshot tool in windows needed. It do what a screenshot tool should do complet screen or select afeas. No faby stuff no image or painter stuff like shown here. In biuld nativ good to gp.
I use the latest Windows PowerToys and one of the tools called TExtExtractor screenshots and you can copy the text out - free and very good.
Print Screen key, paste into Photoshop, MS Paint, GIMP, etc.
But it lose the quality. Try to use shots in ppt. Resolution is lowered.
Thanks I'm in the middle of switching from osx/windows to Linux, this is hugely helpful to recapture some of my lost functionality.
I am in almost exactly the same boat - ditching Windows & needed a good screenshot tool for documentation building. Good luck in your Win-No journey!
Thank you for taking the time and nicely explain ksnip.
For several years, I've been using a much simpler program called Light Screen which has been OK for my needs. But what this program does is really game changing!
I've used Greenshot for years because it has many of the same tools. I need to try this! Thanks!
cool desktop wallpaper!!!
Where do I get that ?
@zuur0 I'm using Android at the moment, but tomorrow I'll use Windows, do a screen capture, and then quiz tineye to see if it can locate it.
I didn't know this existed. Thanks for the in-depth review. Working wonderfully on my Arch install.
Wow, this is really a good one!👍🏼
Iam definitely going to install it!
Thank you very much.
Greetings from Germany
I use Fastston Capture because it has the ability to save a secondary file that allows the markups to be modified at a later date.
Flameshot is also very good, but I'll give this one a test drive too. Thanks!
flameshot ftw.
Flameshot is definately my second favorite - just wish it had a couple more features for my needs
Flameshot didn't work well for me on mac with multiple monitors. Switched to shotr.
Nice features, will dig more about the OCR, I take lots of screenshots and the hard part is finding them after long time. I currently use Paperless but is quite convoluted process, saving the screenshot with applied ocr could really save lot of time.
THANKS SO MUCH! THIS APPLICATION IS REALLY FANTASTIC!
Very useful video. Thank you. You've got a new subscriber 👍
There's lot's of groovy graphic tools fo sho and depending on a person's application that would be great. That said, one feature that Win 11 Snippit has that this is missing is for people like me who are trying to decipher images or charts that have both English and foreign languages on them. Snippit has a great OCR tool that will isolate ALL text no matter what language or no matter if the text is mixed in with a noisy background. The archetecture is very good at identifying that text and once you run that you can then copy all of that text and paste it into google translate or into a text document. It is a very very high powered OCR. For me this is an invaluable tool. Snipit also has many graphic tweaks to play with , perhaps not as many as this ap but other than novelty they are enough for me. Thanks for the video.
Very good point about the great OCR features in Windows Snip. I am about 80% Linux now-a-days, however, so I favor cross platform tools. BUT one big failing of ksnip is OCR so that is one of those situations where Windows is still in the lead. Thanks for letting me & others know about the OCR power of Snip!
@@freewarefocus Man, I really need to make the LInux plunge.. Totally agree with you there. The OCR feature may not even matter to many people but for those who have a need for it, it is defininitely the best I have encountered especially when you have a very busy/blurred image that has text, any language too. I run into a lot of situations where the image has multiple Japanese /Chinese/ Korean characters, sometimes all of the above, some large, some miniscule and the snippit OCR will decipher it all and give you a copyable text option. For anyone that wants to know how to use it, open Snippit, Highlight a part of an image or alll of it (there's lots of options on that front too) but after you've selected your 'snip' an options window will pop up, at the top of the page, near the middle and to the left of the back arrow icon, there is a little icon (no pop-up to idenfify the name) it looks like a (it's hard to describe) like a squarish icon with lines in the middle) Sorry about the strange description it would be much easier to describe if there was a name associated with the icon, in any case, click that, it will find all text within your selected area and highlight it, once highlighted it will give you the option to copy the text. Sorry for the long description but ultimately if you have a use for this technology it is very very reliable. Cheers. Oh, one other thing I've forgotten, Once that pop-up screen appears you can also click the Three dots and import a pre-existing image without having to scan..
Awesome info - thanks for posting a OCR tutorial!
Hey! Great vid. You're a natural at these vids! Keep it up. Subbed.
A great FREE Alternative to Windows snip. Slowly but surely, Open source Free software is catching up with the commercialized overpriced industry.
You are right. Although not perfect. tools like this really help those transitioning from Microsoft. Since I am about 80% Linux and 20% Windows now-a-days, having one cross platform tool that meets my needs is clutch in helping the transition
Looks like it's inspired by Faststone Capture. A promising open source alternative!
i just use flameshot and a global hotkey. i don't have that much use for complex features, i just want to draw a box and that goes into my clipboard
Flameshot is quite good and is my second favorite screen tool. ShareX on Windows only is also good too. I am glad people are listing their favorite tools because there are several good options and people have differ needs and preferences
Nice, gonna use it on Linux instead oft the basic default one. BUT would have been really really nice if it also had the option to take a so called scrolling screenshot. A feature that I quite often need.
I agree - one workaround - in my case I really only do scrolling capture for the web and so I use Firefox who’s print capture saves a scroll to a PNG image file and then just open it in ksnip for markup
Spectacle FTW 🚀🌖
Thanks buddy, I'm a fan of GreenShot, but this looks like a great alternative. BTW this is the BEST live wallpaper I've ever seen 😍 Watched your video on live wallpapers but couldn't find this specific one. Any advice where I can find it? 🙏
For Wallpaper Engine it is called Galaxy Home 4k #9 -there is a whole series of "Galaxy Home", all pretty strong if you like the look of #9. They are all posted by the user Threepwood on Steam
There is no better screenshot tool than Faststone Capture, period💁🏼♂️
FastStone Capture, whilst has a price ($19.99), does all this and much more.... much, much more - and for the cost of 4 beers.... and, no I'm not getting paid for FSCapture bump. And FSCapture can save images in it's own format - .fsc (as well as other formats), and can be later recalled and edited, whereas a jpg or png can't be edited after.
That being said, KSnip looks like a useful utility.
FastStone is very nice and I like they didn’t do the subscription thing. My main gripe is Windows Only (I am like 80% Linux now-a-days). However a top pick for Windows
"Spectacle" is pretty good too
It is very good - wish it was cross platform and they would add a "Load" button but definitely a strong contender
Prefer Greenshot (for Windows). It's lightweight, small install file, very fast and responsive, and it takes up less than 6MB of disk space after install. By comparison, ksnip will take up over 150MB disk space once installed. Ksnip has a few extra features, but nothing most can't do without.
Thank you, that was very useful.
wow you saved me alot og time, thx.
Now I hav a new snipping tool, thanks
Great tool, however, there is one feature I am missing here -- I would like to be able to save a screenshot in the ksnip native image format, so that I am able to edit the screenshot later, like change a selection, remove an arrow or modify numbering etc. Unfortunately -- once you save a png you are done - everything is permanently printed in image.
Totally agree, would be a great feature
Where did you get your desktop wallpaper from ? It’s beautiful
It is called Galaxy Home 4k and is one of the thousands of wallpapers available for Wallpaper Engine (about $4 on Steam). Wallpaper Engine is highly recommended if you run Windows & are in the Steam ecosystem
great information
Like a free Snag-it! Love snagit
I love Snagit too but after having paid for it for a decade it got the boot this year with ksnip. It's lack of support for Linux was the finally nail since Windows is fading fast in my rear view mirror
Snag-it slso records in video…great for short tutorials.
I want that room 😁
Can I get a link to your desktop image. Looks excellent
That is one of the thousands of free wallpapers for Wallpaper Engine ($4 on Steam). Highly recommend if you do Windows and Steam
Wow, really like this
thanks i allready found your background wallpaper
Where? Please share.
Thanks, very useful!
I still love Greenshot.
I'm still happy with what comes with gnome even though it's pretty basic.
I've tried it out. It has the same problems with rounded corners in Windows 11 as all other screenshot tools I've tried so far!
Assuming you mean the black edge it places around the corners. Yeah even Microsoft's snip does that - I don't know of one that doesn't. If you find one please post here, I would love to know myself
What I want is a snipping tool that I can tell when to snap - i.e. I can start it ready to snap on an infinite delay and then trigger it when the moment is right. Essential for screenshots from videos without having to download the video first.
If doing this manually you could set up a global hot key for Current Screen or Active Window and then just tap the key to take a shot. Because ksnip is designed for you to mark up the image, the interface will probably get in the way, however. You might be better off with a much simpler tool which just saves them to a file directly with no user interaction
In Linux mint you can just press the PRNT SCRN key to capture the whole screen, or press it with the shift key to select the area to capture. Nothing to install.
This software is really about marking up the screen shots quickly and efficiently for training/tech support purposes. Just today I did 10+ tutorial screen shots - so I need something that can illustrate how to do things on a computer and get it out to people fast
Hi. Just tried it on my Windows 11 machine. It is having HUGE problems with the geometry of the desktop: I have one screen at 4K using 175% scale, and another one, the main panel of my laptop in a 1080p-or-so 16:10 resolution, using 150% scaling. When selecting a rectangle to screenshot, it is failing to take the scaling into account. So, I think that unless you have a trivial, 1-screen 100% scale (1:1) on Windows, it is not going to work. I'll see if there is a bug report for this one and if not I'll report, but I think will take quite some time to fix as it is not a trivial problem: scaling has been available on Windows for quite some time. Too bad, back to Snipping Tool (which has its own issues, such as totally borking colors (gamma) under HDR screens).
It seems quite comprehensive, but it is lacking timed capture. This is important for those menus and fly-outs that are only shown when active. ie try to capture the menu from ksnip;s own menu.
Set ksnip to not hide it's window during capture and change the global hot key to something that doesn't use Alt (which will close the menu). For example try Ctrl Shift R for Rectangle Clipping. It does fine and can screen shot it's own menus
i love your background wallpaper where can i find that wallpaper thank you
That is a Wallpaper Engine - that and a free alternative are listed in this video: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Do you know of any bulk image optimiser that compresses all the images in a folder? I'd love if it had defaults that just work without having to specify how much compression should be applied for different images with different resolutions and extensions (png, jpeg).
Converseen is a cross platform GUI front end to the powerful Imagemagik image processor/converter. That should probably do what you want
@@freewarefocusthanks for the recommendation! I forgot to mention a very important requirement for me: the conversion should NOT change the metadata of the files (file created and modified date, date taken, location tags, etc.). I looked into Converseen but didn't find such option.
@@BakrAli10 Check out the open source exiftool (command line). Would be another step but you should be able to batch re-add the EXIF metadata back into new files from the originals. At that point I would probably create a batch file to call ImageMagik directly and then exiftool to fix them up. Just Google for command line examples
@@freewarefocus It seems I might have to do that eventually, but I hoped there was an easy GUI tool for doing it.
very good option
More importantly, where do I get that gorgeous desktop and how do I change my window logo in the start menu
You can find out about how I run animated wallpapers in the video below and the start button replacement program is called Open Shell (free and open source): Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
@Freeware Focus thanks for the tool. But I need your wallpaper. Please tell where could I get it?
Here is a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Nice. I will try it.
Thank you.
I've been using TechSmith Screen Capture (formerly Jing) for years. But I've downloaded it and give it a go. BUT, what I really want to know, is where did Freeware Focus, get that wallpaper of the bedroom in space? I want it!!!
Long story short that one is Wallpaper Engine but there are free alternatives - just published a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for WIndows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)
th-cam.com/video/pn7HpUvX5a4/w-d-xo.html
I use the OCR (extract text from image) feature quite often. Looks like the feature is an additional plug-in and seems to have "issues". Sharex for me on windows.
Hey, can you provide a link for that backround wallpaper, please?
That is one on Wallpaper Engine but you can also use a free program for video all paper too - here is a video on it: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
I guess its user error, but when i select rectangular area, I get the selection pointer/target magnifier thing, and I can drag a rectangle, but... as soon as the process starts, my entire screen seems to zoom to like 8x normal so I can only select from the top/left 1/8th of my screen...... I would not mind it being so zoomed in if the 'view' scrolled with the mouse, but nope.
selecting active window gets a perfect grab, and current screen gets a perfect grab, its just 'rectangle' thats not working for me.
I have never experienced that - are on Windows and are you running a really high DPI setting or anything?
@@freewarefocus 4k, windows left at 100% scale, so fairly normal and as said it's only on rectangle not when I grab a full screen or active window. I3 built in graphics so intel drivers. I've been a paint shop pro user since free disks and that has the same issue on a screen grab on any setting, do for full screen i get the top corner, seemed to be 1/9 th of the total area like the screen is being seen as a 3x3 grid
Hi, what did you use to create that space ship background in beginning of the video? Thank you for amazing content.
That particular one is from Wallpper engine but there are free and open source alternatives too - here is a video on that stuff: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Merci.
Really like the wallpaper background could you tell me the name of it please?
That is one on wallpaper engine but you can run video wallpapers for free too - here is an video I did on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
excelent!
Great video and liked the software, so downloaded and tried it out. Most everything works, EXCEPT I can not get it to print to my printer! Searched for a solution and did not find one. Even installed it again, no luck.
Are you on Linux Mac or Windows? I haven’t noticed a problem but I don’t normally print directly, so maybe just haven’t noticed it
I prefer Flameshot. Open Source and has a lot of features.
Thank you man
Where can I get that nice chill live wallpaper that you got?
Short answer Wallpaper Engine, long answer with free & paid alternatives for Windows and Linux is in this video: th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the video, I'm using a Mac for some reason it does not copy the icons on the desktop!
That is strange - are you in Intel or M series ?
Thank you So Much
¡Excelente!
Hi, where does your desktop wallpaper image come from please?
That particular one was a Wallpaper Engine background - here is a video on how to set up animated wallpapers: th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus thank you so much 😊
wanna know how you did your desktop wallpaper???
I just did a video on that: th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Can it also make neat and clean screenshots from windows with ROUNDED CORNERS in Windows 11? All screenshot tools I tried had problems with that.
No it is like all the other I tried - even Microsoft's snip does that so not sure there is fix other bringing the image into an editor and cleaning it up
Love your destop background image. Where can I get this image?
Just did a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
@@freewarefocus I looked there and did not see this image. Is the image showing on your desktop animated? I only want to find the image. My PC's resources cannot afford animated images. I struggle enough with memory and page file assist. Thus I only want the image as a still image. Do you know wher I can find this? As I said, I looked on your other video and I am either blind in one eye or can't see out the other.
@@Codger2015"Galaxy Home 4K #9" on Wallpaper Engine
@@LordZarano Thank you, found it.
doesnt work for me on mac. It does not see chromewebbrowser so If I try and tay a screenshot it just captures the desktop beneath
What MacOS version are you running and are you on Intel or Mx chipset - just trying to see if there is a trend with the Mac issues - thx
It doesn't take screenshot of scrolling area.
Your right, it doesn't. However if you are capturing a long scrolling web page, just use Firefox and add the screen capture to the toolbar. It will save the entire web page to your Downloads folder as a PNG and then you can use the File Open in Ksnip to open it up and mark it up as you like.
Great video, and I was almost going to give up on my (paid-for) snagIt, when I came to that same conclusion. For my job, I regularly need those large screenshots that don't fit on one monitor-screen. Maybe the will add it in the future.
great instruction
Where did you get that amazing background
That is one of the thousands available for free for Wallpaper Engine ($4 on Steam, Windows only)
FYI so many people asking, I just did a video on that: th-cam.com/video/pn7HpUvX5a4/w-d-xo.html
I wanted to love it, but it doesn't support Wayland yet apparently.
Pretty limited Wayland support. For example, the global hotkeys don't work I believe. Hopefully the devs are working on better support since Wayland is wave of the future
@@freewarefocus I installed it and it can capture the entire screen, but that is it. It can't do snipping at all and can't capture individual windows.
I wonder if it can put on a USB as a portable USB Program
On the Github page download the Windows dot ZIP version and unzip it into a folder. The software basically runs as a portable version from that folder
What's the wallpaper name? It's very cool.
I just made a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
I didn’t see anything about doing multiple captures or did I miss it? In other words, I want to do as many captures as needed before the actual program screen opens up, showing me each one.
I don't think so, I would probably set up a Macro to spam the print screen hotkey at whatever interval you need. I use kdenlive as a cross platform screen recorder for video but that probably isn't what you need
Good recommendation, thanks. Seems to be very much what I want.
A question that arose for me is that, in playing around in Mint, I got stuck using crop - made a selection then couldn’t find how to
go back/ deselect …
early days, so don’t really expect an answer, but anything I might obviously be doing wrong?
I wonder if you have part of the interface off the bottom of the screen. You should normally see in the lower left a magnifying glass and next to it number to scale the image. The reason I think that is once you go into crop mode that area changes and in the lower right there is an Apply or Cancel button which is how you confirm your crop
@@freewarefocus Thanks very much. I just tested that, and works as you said. Great help (& possibly psychic ability!?)
@@JamsODonnell100 LOL more "been there, done that" ability ;)
Nice channel! Great app. Any free Linux app to annotate/insert titles on videos ?
For any sort of light to medium video work on any platform, I use Kdenlive (free/open source). Just add your videos then right click in the media pool area and select "Add Title Clip". If you want to get fancy several videos show you how to animate them, just search "kdenlive title"
This software seems great and I want to use it, but it behaves strange on the i3wm: every time I want to take a screenshot, the program pops out even if it was minimized or was on the other screen. I tries unticking different boxes in the setting, but nothing seems to work for me
I don't run i3wm so can't share any experiences. Linux is a bit of a challenge with all of the flavors of desktops and underlying technologies. As a backup you might try Flameshot, which is my second favorite screenshot tool (also free, open source, cross platform, etc).
@@freewarefocus I found the issue. The default action for launching it from system tray was to show the editor. This program is great, it's exactly what I need as a teacher.
@@chotabomjvonychi3485 Glad you found the issue and thanks for letting me know about i3wm - I hadn't really ever heard of it and now it is on my "to be checked out" list :)
i tried it and the screen is huge and it wont let me change canvas size
On the right and bottom (if needed) you have scroll bars so you can pan around the image. At the bottom of the interface are zoom controls to scale the image down visually and at the top is a Crop button to actually trim the image to a smaller size - hope that helps
Love the background on your desktop! Did you make that yourself or download it or what? Where can I get one?
That is one on Wallpaper Engine but you can run video wallpapers like that for free with other programs too - here is a video on that: Animated Desktop Wallpapers for Windows & Linux (Gnome & KDE)*
th-cam.com/video/EVCUQwwB9Ng/w-d-xo.html
Great post. I'll check it out. Btw, you're desktop background is that publicly available and if so where? Thanks.
That is one of the many free background available for Wallpaper Engine - $4 on Steam, Windows only
Do they do a windows portable version?
Yes the ksnip-1.10.1-windows dot zip file seems to work as a portable version. Haven't tested it extensively however. Often times with portable software the Global Hotkeys won't work but it should work with the interface up and it's built in keys for the basic functions, if nothing else
Thank you! I'm sure it's very helpful. I just wondered if you can capture more than a screen, like scrolling? something like the feature that snagit has for capturing a long page?
Unfortunately not so far, however for web pages Firefox has a capture all feature which just saves a image which I turn around and load into ksnip
@ Thanks!
Hello. Looks very promising. We checked it on a Mac and it looks there are issues. It's just not appear after give the approval to record the screen.
I will check it on Windows also today as it is something I'm waiting already long long times.
Thanks for the feedback the Mac version - I don’t run Mac so can’t test it
@@freewarefocus Maybe you have somebody to ask. I would suggest to ask a few people to test it on Mac. Maybe I have made something wrong.
so on Mac when I selected the rectangle screenshot it opens new macos desktop and allowed me to screenshot the empty desktop :) also the shortcuts seems disabled on Mac, and for whatever reasons the app is in Polish :D I can't find how to change it
What MacOS version are you on and are you Intel or Mx CPU? Just trying to see if there is a trend with issues. Not a Mac person so hoping others feedback will help - thanks!
@@freewarefocus sonoma 14.0 on MacBook Air M1
Does it do recording like snip & sketch ?
No just screen shots. I use Kdenlive for that, but obviously not a dedicated screen shot tool
It doesn't have scrolling capture so it is useless to me.
Both ShareX and Shottr are the standard for me. Have the features that I need and aren't intrusive like this one it seems.