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Here Is How To Choose The Image Format For Screenshots On Your PC

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Screenshots can be captured with the help of the old print screen key, or with the help of any professional screen capturing tool. The main important thing to be remembered is the image should need to be sharp and the file size should be a reasonable limit. There are three most commonly used image format styles for sharing the captured screen images on the web, and they are PNG, JPEG, and GIF. If you use the windows snipping tool which is the default program for capturing screenshots in windows, you can simply select the format of the image that you save from the drop-down menu.

Taking screenshots on our PCs and laptops have been a very regular and common task. We have been very much used to do in our daily lives without any kind of a second thought. This is one among the many such other tasks that we do subconsciously. Here is how you can select or choose the particular image format for the screenshot that you take.

Choosing Your Screenshots Image Format

Now, here are a few tips for choosing the formats

  • If you capture a web page that is full of text and web page results, then choose GIF or PNG as JPEG adds noise to the image.
  • Choose the JPEG format if you want to save the image with really low size.
  • Use PNG format if you wish to capture the program window or the window on your PC.
  • Go for JPEG image format if you want to capture a frame from your video game, YouTube video, or a movie from DVD.

In simple words use PNG for saving images with web pages full of text, JPEG for photographs and places with small file size and GIFs for capturing solid images with colors and animation.

How To Add Device Frames To Screenshots Taken On Your Android Device

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There is no doubt that everyone who must be having a smartphone would have taken at least a couple of screenshots. If we talk about Android devices, there are plenty of Android applications available on the Google Play store that allows users to capture scrollable and full-page screenshots. Not just that, Google also offers a built-in screenshot utility tool for capturing the screen. To add device frames to the screenshots, we are going to use Snapmod. It’s one of the best screenshot mockup generator app available on the Google Play Store. Follow some of the simple steps given below to add device frames to your screenshots by using Snapmod.

Steps To Add Device Frames To Screenshots

  • First of all, download and install Snapmod on your Android smartphone from the Google Play Store.
  • Once done, open the app, and you will see a screen like below. You will get the general instructions on how to use the app. You can either read the instructions or skip to the main page.
  • Now you will see a screen like below. Here you need to tap on ‘Model’.
  • In the next step, you will be asked to select the device frame. Select as per your wish.
  • Once done, tap on the middle of the screen and add the screenshot.
  • The final result will look like this. Tap on the Save icon to save the screenshot.

That is it, you are done. Using these simple steps you can now successfully add screenshots into device frames.

How To Save Screenshots To Dropbox Directly

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Dropbox is one of the popular and easy to use file sharing and file saving tools that are available for free. Besides Google Drive and One Drive, this sharing and online data saving tool is also equally popular. It is widely used by people.

If you are using a Windows PC and take screenshots, and work with screenshots a lot, then this tip and simple trick that we are going to tell will be very helpful to you.

This actually is a setting that is available with the Dropbox application by default. You don’t have to install any other third-party tools or applications for this purpose.

Come out of the hassles of uploading the screenshots that you take on your PC if you ever wish to share them with your near and dear ones, you just set this thing up and you are all done.

For this purpose, you must be having the Dropbox app installed on your device. Having this application installed on your device is a must needed thing that you need to follow for sure.

If you have the application installed on your device already, then just open the application and click on the gear icon and then from the menu select Preferences. Click on Import option there. Then make sure the checkbox next to the option share screenshots using Dropbox is checked.

Or if you just installed it and would like to get this feature, then when you capture a screenshot. You will notice an on-screen prompt window asking you whether you wish to upload your future screenshots or not. Choose to save screenshots option. That is it,  you are done with the setup.

Enjoy this auto-upload feature and synchronize them across devices and even share them with your dear ones and family members when you have got something to share.