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By an anonymous user on May. 03, 2008

For beginners you can use Alt+PrntScrn to get a snapshot of the active window or Ctrl+PrntScrn for a snapshot of your entire desktop. You can paste (Ctrl+V) this in MS Paint and edit and mock it up as you please.

By Kevin Ryan on May. 03, 2008

See http://ostatic.com/158572-questions/looking-for-an-open-source-screen-ca... for a similar discussion - Snagit is what you need. There are some other open source/free tools listed in the above discussion as well.

By Scott Sanchez on May. 03, 2008

Thank you!

Yes, PrntScrn with options is good, but I wanted to get the full page, and then found SnagIt! Even better, it really lets me take a snapshot of the entire screen!

FunderFull!

By OSAf W on May. 06, 2008

Well though not an open source option but Snippy till date has been the best, never had to look for another. Its strange not many people know about it, but the reason could be the fact that it is very small, but does the job so perfectly. I am sure you would find using Snippy a breeze!...

Its a single exe, and does not need to be installed. Just run and snip.

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

By OSAf W on May. 06, 2008

Just to mention Snippy can snap a freehand screen portion or just a quadrilateral (square or rectangle) section of the screen.

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

By an anonymous user on Jun. 24, 2008

I found the Irfanview to be good and it is a open source... http://www.irfanview.com/

By OSAf W on Feb. 05, 2009

irfanview is not open source!

By raghu hebbar on Feb. 16, 2009

Firefox with snapshot plug-in does it smoothly.

By Jean-Francois Messier on Apr. 24, 2009

You can use SnagIt, which is a great tool, but costs money. There should be free tools to do it on the net. Those are free under Linux, that's for sure !!!!!!

By Chandresh Kesri on Jun. 09, 2009

Can i take "long copy" format web pages snapshots. i mean some pages are too long we can't take their entire snapshot by pressing single print screen button.

By Peter Brook on Jun. 10, 2009

Chandresh, SnagIT will do it for you on Windows.