Greenshot - screenshot tool for Windows

This is a very comfortable free tool to make screenshots and apply necessary highlights on them.

Install

Download and install from: https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/

Quick Intro

System Tray Context Menu

Default major hot keys:

• Print Screen - Choose manually which area of the screen to capture
• Ctrl + Print Screen - Capture full screen
• Alt + Print Screen - Capture current window

Editor

On the picture above the following features demonstrated:

• Draw arrow (with shadow)
• Draw rectange (with shadow)
• Highlight
• Add textbox
• Draw freehand

Settings

All settings on the screenshots below are default ones except some that pointed out.

General

Capture

You may want to disable Capture mousepointer feature because usually it is not required and in case you'd like to skip edit process you still have to edit just to remove the mouse pointer.

Output

Destination

Printer

Plugins

Expert

You may want to enable Windows Bitmap feature (in the bottom of the Clipboard formats list) in order to be able to paste the screenshot from the Clipboard directly into the Skype conversation.