Before Vista, the only built-in Windows graphics program was Paint. The aptly named snip allows you to take screen shots and save the resulting image to a png, jpeg, gif or even an html file format.
Making a 'Snip' could not be more intuitive, the desktop goes translucent / grey. This simultaneously alerts you to copy an area, and allows you enough transparency to
see what you are doing.
Once you have made the 'cut', you can highlight areas with a thin
pen or a thick marker. Both tools are found on the small toolbar, see screenshot above.
As with most Windows programs,
somewhere there are configuration properties or, in the case of the Snipping Tool, an Option menu.
For me the two key decisions were:
Do you want the Snipping Tool in the Quick Launch
area?
Which format do you want to save your image? Jpeg, gif, png or html.
Guy
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To take shots of the Snipping Tool itself I used Paint Shop Pro. In a word a professional graphics package provides sophistication. However, the advantages of
the Vista Snipping tool is that it's built-in and the learning time is zero compared with two weeks for the average graphics package.
Just as many of the current computer generation are not aware of Ctrl
+c for copy, so they are oblivious to the Print Screen key for capturing images. Unfortunately, neither of these techniques work with the Snipping tool, but they do work with Paint Shop Pro.
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