That's where those other tools excel already. I think typically you'd want to add some annotation such as arrows, highlighting, caption text, or to include the screen capture inside a document already being edited. Those other tools exist already, so why should MS redevelop the wheel? This tool does exactly what it should do, and as a bonus includes a few basic markup tools (the quality of which is beyond the It ain't Photoshop - it ain't even MS Paint. Even for full-screen capture at 1920x1200 resolution, you're still looking at only 6.5' x 4' on a printed page.

Want to resize and resample? That's way beyond this little tool-let. At 300dpi, it would end up being about 2' x 2' - a little box in the middle of the page (or worse, top-left corner). Plus, think about how a typical 600圆00-pixel window capture would look when printed.

There are some rudimentary markup tools, but what we choose to do with that graphic afterwards is up to us. We can save the captured picture to one of a few graphics formats, and The program fills a very small niche: it was designed to capture a portion of the video display to the clipboard, no more, no less. Same reason it doesn't have a native 'save to PDF' feature or 'save to Word' feature. Preview fits a lot of great simple annotations, I was surprised it didn't have this built in.As a software developer (*not* employed by Microsoft) it is perfectly clear to me why the Snipping Tool in Windows 7 doesn't have a print feature. In my case, I downloaded it and used it for blurring of text since I know I'll be using it for other capabilities in the future. Select the area you want to blur first and then use the appropriate blur filter.Īgain, I know it's not as simple and direct as some of the other tools, but GIMP just offers a lot of other features built pretty well. If you want to be cleaner, you can use the rectangle selection tool first and then use blur so you get sharper edges.Ģ) There is also an option in the toolbar to blur selection as well (so it's more evenly blurred) - I would recommend a high (15x15) gaussian blur ( Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur. I ended up just downloading and using GIMP because of it's flexibility as a tool.ġ) Simply use the blur tool and drag over the text. I was looking for a quick solution using the preview tool as well and blocking out or cutting text won't work (since I need to give the notion that text goes there).

Snipping tool with text box