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Comment followup: Lightshot lets you quickly take and share screenshots
If your mind is reeling with the recent wealth of screenshot-related tools that I've started posting, don't worry; I will soon be writing a comprehensive roundup pitting them all against each other.
Until then, I must thank reader nomi49 who left a comment for my SPGrab post that recommended Lightshot from Skillbrains.
Lightshot sets itself apart with two main features. The first is a slick-looking overlay menu that lets you choose what you want to do once you've taken a screenshot. One of the options instantly uploads the image to a domain with a really catchy name: prntscr.com. Your image gets a short URL; my image got http://prntscr.com/goic. Interestingly, prntscr.com seems to be just a simple tie-in to ImageShack. When you click the image on prntscr.com, you go to a regular ImageShack page.
The other interesting feature that Lightshot offers is online editing using Pixlr. It's a fairly powerful Flash-based editor, but it ties into Lightshot quite awkwardly. Lightshot loads the image onto the prntscr.com domain then fires up Pixlr with your image in it, but once you're done editing, you can't save back onto that same location!
You can either save the image locally (in that case, why did you bother uploading it in the first place?) or save it to Pixlr's own image-sharing server (imm.io). Now, two copies of your image are floating around the Web; one of them is edited, and one of them is raw. Needless to say, once your image is in the cloud, it's not really going anywhere (as is the case with most of these tools). If you've uploaded a screenshot of your Social Security number by mistake, that's too bad.
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Subscribe to commentsQuadForceJun 14th 2010 4:17PM
Looking forward to the comprehensive list. I've tried a ton of these apps and so far Jet Screenshot is my favorite. It does exactly what I need it to.. snap a screenshot, annotate / place an arrow, and upload to a server for quick sharing. My only gripe is that the url it puts on the clipboard links you to the image, but it shows it within their site. To link directly to the image you can simply add a .jpg to the link it puts on the clipboard.
http://www.jetscreenshot.com/index.php
bigbucksauto.comJun 14th 2010 4:40PM
THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT ARTICLE!
nomi49Jun 14th 2010 5:45PM
Wow! It's exciting to see my name up there. :D
Thanks for mentioning.
myuselessaddress@gmail.comJun 15th 2010 2:12AM
I use Snippy (rectangle or free selection): http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
nicholassimonJun 15th 2010 6:45AM
I know this sounds ridiculous in the age of Windows 7 etc. but I still use a program called MWSnap (designed for Win 98 - possibly even 95)...sad...I know...
Doug HJun 15th 2010 11:23PM
Regarding your "writing of a comprehensive roundup" - just a suggestion ....and maybe you were planning on this - give us a comparative table of the screen shot tools and their features. I've completely skipped many comprehensive write-up because they turn a table worth of data into a 2000 word essay. A table with your commentary would be greatly appreciated. Thanks