How to Use Awesome Screenshot

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Last Updated: March 23, 2019

Would you like to take screenshots of pictures, web pages or recipes or you want to use to write articles for wikiHow? Then here is the solution; use Awesome Screenshot, an easy screenshot add-on to use on Chrome. The add-on makes great screenshots of entire web pages or just visible parts of the page, and you can edit the screenshot before you save it.

Steps

Press the install button and let it install.
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Press the colored lens icon in your toolbar. Your options are:
- Capture Visible Part of Page
- Capture Selected Area
- Capture Entire Page
  - If you chose the visible part of the page, it captures only what you can currently see in Chrome, if you chose the second option, it captures the entire page.
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Edit the screenshot with use of the toolbar. Use the crop function at the beginning of the toolbar to crop the picture to the size you want.
- Select the area you want to crop and drag the corners to enlarge or to make smaller. Click crop to crop the image.
- Use the other functions of the toolbar to enhance your screenshot. You can add annotations, blur the image and more.
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Press "done" once you're ready editing the screenshot.
- A pop up will show and you'll see a preview of the screenshot. You can either choose the option "Save As" or "Upload to an online photo storage".
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Is it possible to combine multiple screen captures into one?

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Yes! if you have a photoshop app or program like Paint. You can also paste both of the screenshots into a word document and use the snipping tool to capture both screen shots, or take another screenshot and crop it.

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How do I alter the size of the arrow and rectangle?

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There are inbuilt options, but (at the time of this writing) there were a few bugs, glitches. So simply crop the picture after taking the screenshot.

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How can I select a specific area to be captured?

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Search in 'Search the Web and Windows' snipping tool and click New. Select the area you want to screenshot and let it cut it out for you.

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