How to Use VeryPDF ShareShot?

May 25, 2012 by neomie • VeryPDF Online Tools • Tags: capture screen, capture screen shot, free capture tool, free software, online gallery, online share, online shareshot • 0 Comment •

VeryPDF Shareshot is a free software application designed to help your capture any region on your computer screen, and  share the screenshots instantly. You can use it to capture images, windows, dialog box, text, or whole screen and share them instantly in Face book, blogs, twitters, etc. The following shows how to use this free screenshot tool.

1. Open VeryPDF ShareShot

You can double click the shortcut icon   on your desktop to open this free tool. Then, you will find the icon appear on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Then you can proceed to the next step.

2. Activate a capture mode

Please click the icon on the taskbar, and a menu appears as illustrated below.  Please choose any of the three capture modes to start capturing screen shots.

Three capture modes:

• Capture region mode—selecting Capture region on the menu or pressing Print on the keyboard, you can activate the region mode and start to capture any area on your screen.
• Capture window mode—choosing Capture window on the menu or hitting Alt+Print on the keyboard, you can activate the capture window mode to capture windows by clicking on the window you want to capture.
• Capture full screen mode—clicking on Capture full screen on the menu, or hitting Ctrl+Print, you can activate the full screen mode to capture the whole screen instantly.

VeryPDF Shareshot can also automatically remember the last screenshot, so if you choose Capture last region, you don’t have to repeat the action you’ve just done.

3. Capture screenshots

• 3.1. If choose capture region, you can capture any area on screen as follows:

Keep pressing the left mouse button down and dragging a rectangle on the screen.

Releasing the mouse button, you will find the built-in image editor on the screen as below. 

• 3.2. If choose Capture window, the windows or dialog boxes on the screen will be frozen, and you can click on the window or dialog box you want to capture. The built-in image editor will be openned instantly with the selected window or dialog box in the editor interface.
• 3.3. If choose Capture full screen, the whole screen will be frozen, and you need to click on any point on the screen before the image editor window is opened. 

4. Edit image

In the built-in image editor, you can add rectangles, lines, text boxes, ellipses on the screenshot you have just captured.

Add elements—you can click the icons on the tool bar on the left side of the image editor to add rectangles, lines, ellipses, arrows and text on the screenshot you have captured.

Edit elements—If you want to change the thickness of lines, fill color of rectangles or ellipses, font style of text, you can click on at first, and then do as follows:

• To edit the text, please click on the text box and drag it to move it, or you can double click on it to open the text edit window, and then change the text font stype, size, color,etc.
•  To change rectangles’ color, please click on the added rectangles, and then click     to change the line color, and click to change the full color of the rectangles.

5. Share screenshots

After  adding text, rectangles, arrows, etc, you can share the edited screenshots instantly. Please click the Share button , the screenshot will be uploaded to VeryPDF Online gallery immediately, and share the link with your friends.