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Choosing The Image Format Of 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 that 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 a 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 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 popular and widely used by the 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 and you don’t have to install any other third-party tools or applications for this purpose.

Come out of the hassles of uploading your 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 ask 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.