The Best 4 Chrome Apps for Taking Screenshots

April 24, 2015
When it comes to screenshot apps, the Chrome app store is teeming with all kinds of apps but only few do the job quite perfectly. We have been experimenting with a wide variety of these apps and ended up with the short list below. These are the apps we trust the most for doing the job they claim to do. Using these tools, you will be able to easily capture all or part of any web page, add annotations to your screen captures that include shapes, text, comments, blur sensitive parts, and many more. Some of these apps are also integrated with Google Drive. Enjoy

1- Lightshot

This is by far our favourite and the one we use the most for taking screenshots. Lightship lets you grab quick  screenshots of any page and share it with others. Besides  being able to edit your screenshots, you can also save them to your local disk or upload them to the cloud to access them anywhere.

2-Awesome Screenshot

This is another powerful Chrome app with over 2 million users. Since awhile ago, Awesome Screenshot made all of it premium features free for everyone. Some of the things you can do with this app include:capture screenshots of any web page, annotate images with rectangles, circles,arrows, lines and text, blur selected spots on a page or image. Awesome screenshot is integrated with Google Drive meaning you can easily save your screenshots to your Drive.

3- Fireshot

FireShot captures screenshots of Chrome web pages. You can edit and annotate your screenshots. The screenshots are instant and produce no traffic. No 3rd party websites and logins required!

4- TechSmith Snagit

"The Snagit for Google Chrome™ Application lets you take screencasts and screenshots, then edit, share, and collaborate around your screen captures. Plus, use the Snagit for Google Chrome™ library to view and manage your recordings and screen grabs anywhere."

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The Best Teacher Tools for Taking Screenshots and Annotating Pictures

January 22, 2015
Creating tutorials and explanatory guides is best done through the help of screenshots. These are pictures we take of our screens to share with others or include in a visual demonstration of how, for example, a process works. As teachers and educators we often find ourselves in need of such visual annotations and cues to enhance our students comprehensibility. There are several web tools that we can use to create screenshots and we have already reviewed some of them in past publications here. Today, we are introducing you to what we consider to be the best 4 web tools for creating screenshots. Besides being free, these tools are very simple to use and are also student friendly. They will allow you to  capture your screen, crop and annotate your pictures using  arrows, colours, shapes, text and many more.

1- MonoSnop

Monosnop is a wonderful tool  that you can use to :

• Capture full screen, just part of the screen, or a selected window
• Highlight important details with pen, text, arrows and shapes
• Hide private information with our blur tool
• Open snapshots in your favorite external editor
• Drop images on the Monosnap icon to upload them to the cloud
• Upload your snapshot to our storage in one click
• Or save it to your local folder and copy it to clipboard

2-Snagit

Snagit is a Chrome extension that you can use to capture screenshots within your browser.The app allows you to annotate and customize your screenshots the way you want. Snagit is also integrated with Google Drive so you can save your screenshots directly to your Drive.

3- Awesome Screenshot

Awesome Screenshot allows you to capture visible parts of the screen, focus on a specific part of it, or capture the whole page. You can then crop your screenshot and annotate it using rectangles, circles, arrows,lines and text.

4- Lightshot

This is another great web tool for taking screenshots. Lightshot  works right from your browser. Some of the features it offers to its users include: cropping any part of the page, editing and annotating screenshots using arrows, boxes, circles, and text, saving your screenshots on your hard drive or uploading them to the cloud

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