- Snipping Tool for Mac tools can be downloaded for free or accessed online. Search for open source software tools if you need a free tool for capturing screenshots. Be it a grab tool Mac or a snipping tool for iPad, you can find it online.
- For this purposes, you can make use of professional Mac screenshot tools that features the same function as Snipping Tool. Grab - A built-in screenshot tool on Mac that enables you to capture anything you see on screen.
- Apowersoft Mac Screenshot. Apowersoft Mac Screenshot is a powerful screen capturing tool for Mac. Just like other snipping tools for Mac in this list, this app also surpasses the built-in Mac tool for capturing your desktop.
- It is free.
- It is powerful.
- It allows you to take screen shots of only specific sections of your screen rather than the entire window or screen.
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- Click on the Start button to open your Start Menu. The Start button looks like this:
- Then click on the All Programs menu option.
- Then click on the Accessories group
- Finally click on the the Snipping Tool icon which looks like this:
Snipping Tool Main Screen
As we are not going to take a snip right now in this portion of the tutorial, press the Cancel button to exit capture mode. Now, let's move on to learn about the different selection types available to us.
The Snipping Tool Options
When you start the Snipping Tool you can click on the Options button to set the preferences on how you want the program to operate. Below we have a table that explains what each of these options do and how they affect the snips, or screen shots, that you create. The options are broken up into Application and Selections groups.
Application Options:
- Hide Instruction Text
- If enabled, hides the instruction text in the main Snipping Tool window.
Always copy snips to the Clipboard- If this is enabled it will copy all snips to your Windows clipboard so you can paste them into another application such as word processors or other image manipulation programs.
Include URL below snips (HTML only)- With this enabled if you save your snip as a Single File HTML, or MHT document, and the snip was taken from an Internet Explorer browser window it will show the url of the page that you took the snip from.
Prompt to save snips before exiting- If enabled, when you exit the snipping tool it will prompt you to save any snips that were created.
Display icon in the Quick Launch Toolbar- When enabled an icon for the Snipping Tool will be placed in your Quick Launch Toolbar.
Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active- If enabled, when you are creating the snip the Snipping Tool interface will disappear.
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- Ink Color:
- This will change the color of the selection border when you create a snip.
Show selection ink after snips are captured- When enabled the selection border will be shown, using the color selected in the Ink Color option, around the snip.
My suggestion is to enable all the application options other than Include URL below snips (HTML only) and Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active. For the selection options I would disable the Show selection ink after snips are captured option for better looking snips.
Snipping tool for mac paste. Now that we understand the options, lets learn about the different types of snips that can be taken.
Types of snips that can be taken.
There are four different selection types that you can use to take a snip using the Snipping Tool. In order to change the type of of selection the Snipping Tool will use to create a snip you would click on the small down arrow menu next to the New button. This is shown by the arrow in the image below.
A description of each selection type and an example snip is shown below.