Solved ShareX - Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool

Edwin · Aug 13, 2023

Edwin said:
That link only shows stable release changelog.

I figure you gotta play around with the Dev Builds to find out what's new...,

however, I think the last few have just been bug fixes..., I haven't seen anything new.

Edwin · Aug 24, 2023

Edwin · Sep 21, 2023

Quick Tip:
If you miss-drag a region, or change your mind about the region, simply right click while still holding left button to start over.

Edwin · Sep 21, 2023

Alex__ASSR · Sep 21, 2023

Fabler2 · Sep 22, 2023

I also like the Image combiner.
The new Photos app doesn't allow to turn the aspect ratio off when resizing :woozy:

so have to use Paint or Paint 3D. Nice one Ms....

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants · Sep 24, 2023

I’m still yet to try this. But the truth is, I have Photoshop open pretty much all the time, so I just print screen and edit.
Lately though, I’ve had print screen as the snippetswhatevers capture key to try help a member with their issues. (if you remember) So using ShareX whilst photoshop is open would seem pointless. Again, I haven’t tried it.
But I’m always interested in @Edwin approved apps. Whatever makes the flow, flow is a good thing, I hate detours.

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
... so I just print screen and edit.

Does it send the capture straight to PS?

antspants · Sep 24, 2023

Edwin said:
Does it send the capture straight to PS?

When you Print screen” with photoshop, it isn’t visible until you create a new file or ctrl+n. Photoshop automatically knows the dimentions. The catch is, it’s always a full window. Or in my case, 6 full windows. So there is most likely a lot of merritt with ShareX for capture if you don’t want to edit much. But it’s just natural to me in PS. However a longer process.

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
When you Print screen” with photoshop, it isn’t visible until you create a new file or ctrl+n. Photoshop automatically knows the dimentions. The catch is, it’s always a full window. Or in my case, 6 full windows. So there is most likely a lot of merritt with ShareX for capture if you don’t want to edit much. But it’s just natural to me in PS. However a longer process.

I'll get back to ya..., gimme a few minutes...

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

@antspants
I would say, 90% of screen captures I take, are either to share here, or are random snippets of various sources, the internet, etc.
I want a capture program that just plops the solitary capture on the Desktop, nothing more..., ShareX and Greenshot are 2 of the few that will do that, other programs need you to paste it into another program, or they need to use a working folder somewhere!

Let me explain how ShareX works..., or rather, how I've set it up to work:
PrtScrn is the boss hotkey, press it and freezes all your screens and everything on them, including mouse hover tips, menus, pop-ups, etc..., the region capture crosshairs are there as well as the annotating toolbar so, you can annotate on the fly before you actually grab the capture!

I do my thing, grab the capture then drag it from my desktop to here:
(All that annotating I did on the fly before I even grabbed the region capture..., with the exception the png in mid-drag!)

antspants · Sep 24, 2023

Edwin said:
PrtScrn is the boss hotkey, press it and freezes all your screens and everything on them, including mouse hover tips, menus, pop-ups, etc...,

This is valuable.

Can you “send to photoshop” or other external, using ShareX? (or copy image in ShareX and paste?)

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
This is valuable.

Yep, especially when you need to show someone how something of that nature works!

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

And, with that process, it will do successive captures, so you can capture a capture of a capture of a capture...... with separate annotations!

antspants · Sep 24, 2023

You know what I would love?
If a capture software could capture the screen but with layers defining the separate instances of items present.
For example, the mouse pointer would be a separate layer as would a pop up be.
I assume the capture software would need to be able to recognise running processes to do this.

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
For example, the mouse pointer would be a separate layer as would a pop up be.

Not sure exactly what you mean, but, you can turn off Show Mouse Pointer with Capture, so, it must be a separate layer...

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
For example, the mouse pointer would be a separate layer as would a pop up be.

antspants · Sep 24, 2023

Edwin said:
Not sure exactly what you mean, but, you can turn off Show Mouse Pointer with Capture, so, it must be a separate layer...

So that they can be moved around in a screenshot (in ShareX) like a layered .psd

Edwin · Sep 24, 2023

antspants said:
So that they can be moved around in a screenshot (in ShareX) like a layered .psd

Ah! Mmmm..., I don't think so. You can add a duplicate, or mirror of your mouse pointer, as I did in the above capture, and move them around...
(Btw, I invoked that capture/mouse movement and recorded the Gif all in one ShareX instance!)