Screen Capture

[Geoffrey Lindop]

A feature I often used on PhotoPlus was Screen Capture.  This facility does not seem to be present on Affinity Photo.  Is it possible to do Screen Capture?

[MEB]

Hi Geoffrey Lindop,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

No, Affinity Photo/Designer doesn't have this feature. You have to use an external app for that. Windows 10 includes an utility to capture the screen called Snipping Tool.

[Alfred]

Windows 10 includes an utility to capture the screen called Snipping Tool.

 

The Snipping Tool has been available since Windows Vista. A newer and more feature-filled alternative is Snip, from Microsoft Garage.

 

For what it's worth, I find the screen capture 'facility' in PhotoPlus to be very clunky, and I never use it. I know that many other PhotoPlus users feel the same way.

[SrPx]

IrfanView, an amazing and fast viewer, has a nice capture utility. (allows timed capturing, include mouse cursors(great for tuts), and several other useful things)
Active Presenter is an amazing tutorial and general learning free (commercial version available, free very capable)  screen capture tool, although it captures video, not single frames (but you access to the moving captured in a timeline, so can strip any of those screens later). It has a surprising performance in capturing, resulting in quite good capture even in old machines like mine (arcane i7).
If your captures are happening in the browser only, the free Fireshot has this amazing feature of capturing an entire site, I mean, all scrolling content out of the screen, too. I believe I've used it in Firefox and Chrome (I use both browsers) , but support several others. Is not only an extension's icon in your browser top bar, It has also a small capture edit utility that comes handy, too.
 
I know a pair of super featured commercial screen capturers, but imo, with the above (even with only one of them) I never needed anything else...
 
Well, of course, I left the best for the final recommendation, it's very recent, top tech, but in case you are after real flexibility, then you should at least try it :

 

 

[verysame]

Nice tips SrPx.

 

A couple more:

bandicam, the free version has the watermark, but other than that it's another great screen video recorder.

licecap, nice little utility that saves an animated gif, very useful for quickies

 

+1 for the print screen, which I often use with the ALT combo in order to capture only the selected window.

 

And for OneNote users, WIN+SHIFT+S to select the area and capture.

[SrPx]

licecap, nice little utility that saves an animated gif, very useful for quickies

 

 

Liked this little tiny thing. Sure, nothing to compete with strong video recorders, but can be useful.

[SnowQueen]

My fav screen capture tool--if you have a copy since Google doesn't have it up for download anymore--is Picasa.

[PaulAffinity]

Er... Snowqueen - PICASA is here, direct from Google (v3.9) final) ; just NOT supported, I use it as my goto replacement file manager (LR-lite!!) with GPS!

 

Enjoy... https://picasa.google.co.uk/

 

paul

[Alfred]

In SnowQueen's defence, Picasa is available from picasa.google.co.uk but not from picasa.google.com.