

If you have a touchscreen, you can even write with a stylus or your finger. When it comes to annotating your screenshots, Snip & Sketch also has more features than the original Snipping Tool – allowing users to modify the ‘snip’ virtually any way they like by cropping, highlighting, writing on or drawing on the image. The updated version then lets you save and reuse multiple items and even sync those clips to other devices. But unlike with the previous Snipping Tool, users can now take an immediate screenshot or set it to snap via a timer, with a delay of three or 10 seconds. The tool enables you to take a shot of the entire screen, a rectangular section or a freeform area and copy it to the Clipboard – this is nothing new. ‘Snip & Sketch’ combines the legacy Snipping Tool with Screen Sketch (previously part of Windows Ink Workspace) to create a single app for capturing and annotating screenshots of the desktop, apps, and games without the need for third-party tools. Windows 10 has long allowed you to take and save screenshots using the Snipping Tool but thanks to a recent Windows update, users now have access to a complete set of screen-capture tools.

Chose “Pin to taskbar.” This gives you quick access to the snipping tool whenever you are using your PC.There’s a new screenshot tool in town and we’ve been making full use of it on our desktops here at Pro Drive IT.

Instead, hold down on the app until the customize bar appears at the bottom. It is located under “Windows accessories.” Tapping on the app launches the app. Locate the “Snipping Tool” in the list of apps. Alternatively you can bring the mouse to the lower left corner of the Start screen to reveal an arrow in a circle that will take you to the list of Apps. Note you must swipe from the middle or the customize options bar will appear instead. You can access this by swiping up from the bottom of the Start screen. The snipping tool is located under the list of Apps. If you do not have the snipping tool select the Windows key to toggle to the start screen. The Start screen shows tiles of applications on your PC. The Snipping Tools allows you to take a partial screenshot and annotate the screenshot. If you do not have a Surface, every Windows computer has the Snipping Tool pre installed.

The Surface Pro 3 makes it easy by double clicking the end of the pen. If you are using a Windows machine you may be wondering how to take screenshots.
