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I would love build-in screenshot tool so much...
HotCakeXSnip and Sketch doesn't really do what I need for my work. I need full-sized screenshots of a webpage with scrolling. And picking elements of the website to screenshot is incredibly useful for my job.
In Firefox you can just open Screenshot tool, point with a mouse on some image (or block of text, or whatever) and it automatically selects that item and makes a screenshot of just that thing. No editing and clipping needed. Snip and Sketch is definitely a useful feature for someone else but Firefox style screenshots would help me immensely 🙂
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love this in Edge. Many people love Firefox just because of features like this super useful screenshot tool.
I also miss super great PDF viewer from original Edge and smooth scrolling, but we already know these things are hopefully coming.
What do you think about the classic Edge's screenshot and clipping tools?
it's got pen, highlighter, eraser, adding notes, clipping, touch writing and so on.
also the integration with OneNote. how does that compare with Firefox's scrennshot tools, in your opinion?
HotCakeXIt's great but very similar to Snip and Sketch except integration of Onenote. You can supplement it pretty well. I miss PDF viewer way more.
I'm looking for something else. The option to pick individual elements of the website automatically by just clicking on it is incredibly useful. If you just drag to pick some area of the website you will never get as precise and you will not get the biggest possible resolution.
Also, screenshots of a full website with scrolling are super useful if I need to describe a whole website to our codder. For example
Both of those can be done.
you can use the "clip" feature to either clip one element of the webpage or just hold it and scroll down the web page with your mouse wheel and it will keep clipping the whole website.
this is an example of element clipping.
HotCakeX No, that's not it. I can already see the white frame around the image you're trying to clip. As I was saying if you're doing this manually by dragging you will never be as precise and always end up witch smaller or bigger picture and I'm fighting for every bit of resolution.
Also, drag and scroll with mouse works terribly with touchpads. It's not confortable at all and if your journalist you need to work super fast. I can't be doing every single screenshot like this. Simpler and faster it is the more work I can get and faster the articles are released or mistakes on our website are fixed.
I know you're trying to help and I really appreciate it but Edge and Microsoft tools just don't offer same features as Firefox which are important for me. No matter how small might this feature look like to others. I wrote this post just to get the word out and have a little hope that something like this might come to new Edge 🙂