Screenshot cropping tool for windows 7

Roadkillv1 · 15 Nov 2019 at 22:02

Hello, I have to take about 300 screenshots and paste them into a word document (or similar) this weekend and I'm looking for a tool that will make this easy on me. The windows snipping tool isn't terrible, but the fact I have to manually name it each time it saves instead of just saving it as (1) (2) etc would add in a lot of time. Does anyone know of any tools like this? I mean I can use the snipping tool it will just add time and was wondering if anyone knew of one before I got started.

Scotteh · 15 Nov 2019 at 22:11

Greenshot or Gadwin

momo56 · 15 Nov 2019 at 22:14

Roadkillv1 said:
Hello, I have to take about 300 screenshots and paste them into a word document (or similar) this weekend and I'm looking for a tool that will make this easy on me. The windows snipping tool isn't terrible, but the fact I have to manually name it each time it saves instead of just saving it as (1) (2) etc would add in a lot of time. Does anyone know of any tools like this? I mean I can use the snipping tool it will just add time and was wondering if anyone knew of one before I got started.

Do you have an Nvidia GPU ? Shadowplay can screenshot with 'Alt+F1'

bremen1874 · 15 Nov 2019 at 22:15

Paste them directly into the Word document? No obvious point to individually saving them all first.

Quartz · 15 Nov 2019 at 22:33

Roadkillv1 said:
Hello, I have to take about 300 screenshots and paste them into a word document (or similar) this weekend

300 screenshots? Are you sure creating a video wouldn't be better?

Roadkillv1 · 16 Nov 2019 at 00:09

momo56 said:
Do you have an Nvidia GPU ? Shadowplay can screenshot with 'Alt+F1'

I actually do, I might look into that

bremen1874 said:
Paste them directly into the Word document? No obvious point to individually saving them all first.

I don't want a screenshot of the entire page, I need to crop part of my screen as a screenshot. Maybe I didn't word my message to imply that, my bad.

Quartz said:
300 screenshots? Are you sure creating a video wouldn't be better?

Alas no the requirement is 300 screenshots

bremen1874 · 16 Nov 2019 at 00:14

Roadkillv1 said:
I don't want a screenshot of the entire page, I need to crop part of my screen as a screenshot. Maybe I didn't word my message to imply that, my bad.

The Windows 7 Snipping Tool allows you to select the area of the screen you're interested in. No need to select the entire screen.

You can also further crop the images once they're posted into Word using Word's editing options.

Roadkillv1 · 16 Nov 2019 at 00:17

bremen1874 said:
The Windows 7 Snipping Tool allows you to select the area of the screen you're interested in. No need to select the entire screen.

You can also further crop the images once they're posted into Word using Word's editing options.

Yep but like I said, the snipping tool wants me to start, select, save and manually name each file. It'll be my last resort as it does the job just slower than I'd like. In a perfect world I would crop and it would automatically save as a new file in a folder. But I'm testing greenshot atm as recommended.

Roadkillv1 · 16 Nov 2019 at 00:20

Scotteh said:
Greenshot or Gadwin

Now this right here, greenshot, utterly perfect AND free. Problem sorted, thanks man.