Step 2: You’ll also see a desktop notification that informs you that the image has been copied to the clipboard. Instead, the image goes straight to your clipboard first. You have the same functions found in the older Snipping Tool, but it doesn’t save your screenshots as a file. Step 1: If you use the keyboard shortcut, the screen darkens and renders a five-button toolbar along the top. You can access this tool from the Start menu or by typing Win + Shift + S on your keyboard. Snip & Sketch is Microsoft’s newer version of its snipping utility. Step 5: When you’re done editing within the Snipping Tool, click File in the upper-left corner and then click the Save As option listed on the drop-down menu. You can perform light edits like using a pen or highlighter and erasing something. Once you capture a screenshot, the Snipping Tool interface expands to display your screenshot. It can wait between one to five seconds before it snaps an awesome screenshot, so you can capture a precise moment in a video or animation. Step 4: The Snipping Tool includes a delay feature, too. If you’re capturing a specific window (Window Snip), your screen tints white except for the contents within the window you select. Once you begin defining the screenshot space, the white tint clears within that area. Step 3: Note that if you use the Free-Form and Rectangular Snip modes, the screen turns white. However, to get to the window, full-screen mode, and free-form mode, you'll need to click the down arrow next to rectangle mode
These buttons do the same as we've previously described. You'll see new, rectangle mode, and no delay when you open Snipping Tool.
On Windows 11, the design of the tool is different. You’ll find four screen-capturing options: Draw a window (Free-Form Snip), box in an area (Rectangular Snip), capture the current window (Window Snip), and capture the entire screen (Full-Screen Snip). Step 2: With the Snipping Tool opened, click the Mode button to expand its menu. Even in Windows 11, it's still an available tool, but Microsoft encourages you to use Snip & Sketch or the Win + Shift + S keyboard shortcut. If you're on Windows 10, once it opens, you’ll see a notification that it’s “moving to a new home” in a later update.
Step 1: To start, just type snipping tool into the taskbar’s search box and select the resulting app. However, it is a utility that allows users to better define and capture portions of their desktop display as a screenshot. This built-in screen-capture utility works well enough, but it’s not the most robust or versatile when it comes to saving a snapshot. The best native alternative method is the Snipping Tool. And yes, each of these methods work just as well in Windows 11 as in Windows 10. There are a number of ways to accomplish this simple task in Windows, and we’ve detailed each of the available methods below.
Older Android models are trickier because they vary from phone to phone. Just press the Volume and Power buttons at the same time. Take a screenshot on AndroidĪndroid 4.0 and higher phones are easy. You will find your screenshots in the Photos application, under Albums, then Film. Simultaneously press the sleep/wake button on your phone and the Home button to take the screenshot. You see that nice little button on the left joy-con? The one with the camera on it? Press it to take a screenshot. Or press the SHARE button to open a new menu, with options to take a screenshot, record video, and share your captures. You can hold down the SHARE button on your controller to take a screenshot. Then go to, log in to your Xbox Live account and you’ll find all your screenshots in the Captures section of your profile page. You can now press Y to take a screenshot or X to record a video clip. Press the Xbox button on your controller twice.
If you press the Shift, Cmd and 4 keys simultaneously, you will get a full screenshot. Or hold the Windows, Alt and Prtscn buttons together to take a screenshot right away. Open the Windows game using the Windows button. Enter /Users/YOURUSER/library/Application Support/Minecraft in the window.
Under Mac, to find the folder: simultaneously press SHIFT + COMMAND + G from the Finder. This is where the screenshots will be recorded.