Windows 7 has a pretty nifty application default in the OS called the “Snipping Tool” this tool allows you to cut a portion of your desktop and turn it into an image, it is similar to print screen for only a predefined section of your desktop. You can use this tool to cut articles out of blogs, images off of web pages, or even snippets of your own applications and use them.
Check out my video demonstration on using the Windows 7 Snipping Tool:
Though the tool allows you to snip out rectangle, circle, freeform shapes from your screen, the Windows 7 Snipping Tool only allows you to draw freehand lines, I can’t draw steady with a mouse and have horrible handwriting especially when trying to draw letters on screen. Therefore I wish the snipping tool had these extra features:
- Shape drawing (circles, squares, ellipticals…etc)
- Straight lines (so you don’t have to free draw straight lines)
- Basic text functionality (So you can at least type words)
Like I said, you can save the image and load it into a paint program, but it would save time if the snipping tool were just enhanced to do these additional things and it would save time.
Let me know what you think of my demonstration.
-Dragon Blogger
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November 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
I use the print screen application all the time to drag shots into Paint Shop Pro and put a goat on somebody’s head or something like that. Good to know that Windows 7 has such a wonderful tool to make this even easier!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Very cool tutorial, great job
I’m pretty comfortable just using the print screen and then crop it in another app so this app isn’t a huge help but I can see it being useful for certain things. BTW whats your opinion of Win 7 compared to Vista/XP?
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November 4th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Windows 7 64 Bit is much faster than Vista 32 bit, I can tell you that since I upgraded.
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November 4th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Snipping Tool is a useful Windows 7 Feature. I often use it to draw. Thank you for your tutorial video.
I thinks more and more Windows 7 tools will help us easily.
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November 5th, 2009 at 12:17 am
That’s good news…I’ve been looking to go 64bit but am afraid of bugs. Currently running Linux Mint but I might get Win 7 64 after the Service packs come out.
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January 2nd, 2010 at 7:56 am
I’m so glad that Microsoft didn’t put a print function in the snipping tool. It’s so much easier to open a second program to print.
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Cool tool, I’ve had a hard time finding a simple snippet it tool. Will give this one a try!
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July 26th, 2010 at 10:45 am
This is not true. Windows 7 snipping tool allows free-form, rectangular, window, and full-screen snips. These can be found under “New” when the snipping tool is opened.
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:01 am
You are absolutely right, I need to go back and update this post.
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:03 am
I wasn’t talking about snipping shapes, but doing some drawing on the clip after you cut it.
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