About Snipping.tools

Snipping.tools is the fastest way to share a screenshot without needing to download or install anything. It’s designed with your workflow in mind by using only a minimum number of keypresses to share your images.

Capturing your screen

The Print Screen key is your universal screen capture button. It’s located near the top right area of your keyboard, and is sometimes abbreviated to something like “Prt Scr”.
You can use it anywhere - you don’t need the Snipping.tools website open. Just press it once and it’ll take a snapshot of whatever is currently on your screen and store it in your clipboard. Then, just open up Snipping.tools and paste it by pressing Ctrl + V.

Tips

• Pressing Print Screen captures the whole screen, while Alt + Print Screen captures just the currently active window.
• As soon as you press Ctrl + V, you can press Ctrl + C to copy the image’s URL to your clipboard.
• You can paste any kind of image data from your clipboard, such as marquee selections from Photoshop or other editors.
• Take advantage of shortcut keys when using the editor. Hover your mouse over the editor’s tool icons to learn the hotkeys.

FAQs

• How long will my images last?
  Images will last for 90 days
• What are recent images?
  Recent images are images that viewed or created by you, we store the last 15 images on your computer for easy access