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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.

A Chrome extension for taking full webpage screenshots

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Screenshots, we might want to capture the screen one time or the other, for capturing the screen of your PC, there are a lot of options available and the inbuilt Windows application for capturing the screen which is the Snipping tool. But taking screenshots on the web pages is considered as a difficult thing, sometimes we may want to capture the whole web page or a part of a web page, here is a wonderful and very much useful Chrome extension that is going to be very much useful if you like to capture the web pages.

Capture Screen is the Chrome extension which you can get from the Google Chrome’s web store.  

After installing it you can find the icon of the application on the top right corner of the Chrome tab. Now, whenever you need to capture the screen just click on that icon and you will find three options, and remember that the options will change from web page to web page according to its support.

Just click on the icon to find three options and the options include Capture page region where you can capture a certain region by dragging over the region where you would like to capture, Capture visible content is the second option using which you can capture the visible part of the screen, Capture the whole page captures the entire web page in just one click. And you can also find the Options option at the bottom where you can change the format of the file that will be saved. And you can also enable keyboard shortcuts for the actions there.

Use Capture Screen extension on your Chrome browser to capture web pages easily.

Choosing the image format of screenshots on your PC

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Screenshots can be captured with the help 0of 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 formats 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.

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 colours and animation.