#SHOTCUT TITLE SCREEN FULL#
The toolbar will appear at the top of your screen again, and give you the option to perform a rectangular, freeform, window, or full screen snip. Once you do, the small toolbar will appear at the top of the screen, just as you used the Snipping Tool did to take a shot of a specific portion of your screen as described above.
#SHOTCUT TITLE SCREEN PLUS#
When the Snipping Tool opens, click the plus sign next to "New" to start a new capture.
#SHOTCUT TITLE SCREEN WINDOWS#
To launch it, you can use the keyboard shortcut ( Windows key + Shift + S) or type "Snipping Tool" in the Start or Search menus. Microsoft introduced the Snipping Tool back with Windows Vista, and then tried to deprecate it with Windows 10's Snip & Sketch, but Snipping Tool is back in good graces with Windows 11. The Snipping Tool has more tools available to annotate, edit, or share your content. Once you choose an option, when you are finished, you will get a notification that the Snipping Tool is copied content to the clipboard.Įven if you ignore the notification, you will need to paste the content into an image editing program like Paint before you will be able to save the content. Full-screen Snip: Similar to pressing the Print Screen key by itself, this option captures a screenshot of your entire screen. Window Snip: Choose a window and capture just that active window as a screenshot.Ĥ. The area around the custom shape (in the rectangular image) will be black when you paste it.ģ. Freeform Snip: Select a custom shape as a screenshot.
Rectangular Snip: Drag and select a rectangular shaped portion of the screen as a screenshot.Ģ. Here are the 4 options available: Snipping Tool quick menu options (left to right)ġ. Once you use the keyboard shortcut ( Windows + Shift + S), the screen will darken and you will see a small toolbar at the top of your screen. If you would like to capture a specific portion of your Windows 11 desktop, the Snipping Tool is the way to go. Take a screenshot of a specific portion of your screen The Snipping Tool is a tool that first appeared in Windows Vista in 2002 as a PowerToys tool. This keyboard shortcut will unlock a tool that has been around Windows since Vista. Windows + Shift + S: copy a specific portion of the Windows 11 desktop to the clipboard.This shortcut with copy content as it appears in the active window on your desktop.
This is another keyboard shortcut that builds off of Print Screen.
Print Screen copies everything that is visible on your Windows 11 desktop to the Clipboard. This is the easiest and quickest method to take a screenshot press the Print Screen key on your keyboard.