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Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.
Capture
Shutter allows you to capture nearly anything on your screen without loosing control over your screenshots (tabbed interface). Here is an overview of what you can do with Shutter:
- Capture a Specific Area
This allows you to select an arbitrary region of your screen and capture only those parts you really need. Shutter offers two different tools to do so in order to meet any user’s taste. - Capture your Desktop
Shutter does not only capture all the contents of your desktop (or workspace) – it also supports Multi-monitor settings, e.g. capture the active monitor - Capture a Window
Simply use your mouse to select the window you want to capture. Shutter will highlight the currently select window in an attractive and useful way. It is even possible to simply select a window from a list and capture it right a way. - Capture a Menu or Tooltip
Capturing menus or tooltips is very easy with Shutter. You select one of the options and a (user-defined) countdown starts. During this time you can open the desired menu or let a specific tooltip come up. Shutter will recognize and capture it. - Capture a Website
Shutter uses gnome-web-photo to capture a website without opening a browser window
Edit
Especially if you are taking screenshots for writing tutorials or manuals you need to edit the image, e.g. highlighting some part of it. With Shutter you don’t need to open an external graphics editor like GIMP, because Shutter ships with its own built-in editor. Here are some of the most important features:
- Add Text, Arrows, Rectangles, Ellipses…
The built-in editor allows you to add primitives (e.g. rectangles, lines etc.) , arrows or text to your screenshot. Every shape can be customized by changing the color, fonts and/or the line width. - Censor / Pixelize to Hide Private Data
Don’t want to show sensitive data like IP or e-Mail addresses? Shutter gives you two simple but effective tools to hide this data. - Auto-Increment Shape
When writing a step-by-step guide people often add incremental digits to the screenshots (usually via text). Shutter offers a specific auto-increment shape that can be added to the screenshot. It cannot be easier! - Crop
The built-in editor also includes a tool to crop your screenshot. Simply select a region with your mouse or enter the desired dimensions into the input fields.
Share
We all spend much of our time in forums, wikis, chats etc. From time to time we need to do some screenshots and upload them so we can share them with other people.
- Share easily
Shutter has a built-in function to upload your screenshot with nice link-formatting so you can post the generated link directly in the forum, wiki etc. - Join the Cloud
The latest version of Shutter supports Ubuntu One as well.
Plugins
Shutter ships with a great variety of plugins that allow you to add impressive effects to your screenshots.
- Give Unique Look to Your Screenshots
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Is it possible to leave a rectangular area or capture unchanged for the next screensot? And, better, add to application a mode of creating series of screensot with the same capturing parameters after specified interval? Use case: I want create screenshots of 10 different tabs of one window. I should set rectangular area once, set interval (for example 1-2 second), push button and create 10 screenshots into files named like file_1, file_2, … Between every screenshot I expected to do some simple task such as switch to the next tab with the mouse or keyboard. It would be really greate!
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Hi.
I’m following and lovin your project since gscrot times
So, first of all, thx for your effort.
The reason I post is a feature request. Might it be possible to implement some sort of tag to a screenshot if it was uploaded? Maybe just appearing as an information under the shot or something?
Cause, for now, if I want to share a shot i’ve already taken and uploaded, I have to reupload it, which feels kinda unnecessary.
Thanks.
That’s definitely a good point, we’ll look into it.
You mean the possibility to stop & resume the delay when capturing?
Please file a new bug for this (importance=wishlist):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter
If you don’t want to do this yourself, please contact me again so I can do this for you.
Hotkeys do not work in general when a menu is active, because menus take the keyboard focus – this is not a bug in Shutter.
But you can easily capture a menu with Shutter anyway, see:
/wp-content/uploads/capture_menu_0.85.ogv
This feature is nearly finished and will be included in the next version of Shutter, see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/344754
There is already a bug for this, but there has been no effort to implement this yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/338964
Stay tuned…
This looks very nice, but i would like to see extra features included such as start & stop quick keys for a continued time delayed recording, also when i tried to capture gnome menu interactions using the PrtSc & Alt+PrtSc the application failed to capture these requests which is something i was looking for. cant wait to see an increase within the feature set as the concept and application look great.
Is it possible to leave a rectangular area or capture unchanged for the next screensot? And, better, add to application a mode of creating series of screensot with the same capturing parameters after specified interval? Use case: I want create screenshots of 10 different tabs of one window. I should set rectangular area once, set interval (for example 1-2 second), push button and create 10 screenshots into files named like file_1, file_2, … Between every screenshot I expected to do some simple task such as switch to the next tab with the mouse or keyboard. It would be really greate!
One of the best screenshot software good job and thanks !
Yeah !
le programme de capture dont je rêvais.
Merci beaucoup pour votre travail.
Good job, thank you.
– franck
This is great software!
Thanks a lot.
I looove Shutter! At last, goodbye SnagIt ! I’m sticking to Ubuntu for work. hehe