Until now, Select Area worked in two steps. You dragged a region, and then you marked it up in a separate editor tab. In Screencap 1.3, the editor opens on the page itself. You select, draw, and copy without leaving the tab.
How it works
- Press Alt+Shift+A, or click the toolbar icon and choose Select Area. Screencap freezes the visible tab, so menus and animations stay where they are.
- Drag over the part you want. A label shows the size in pixels. Drag the handles to resize, or press the arrow keys to move the selection 1 px at a time (10 px with Shift).
- Pick a tool and draw on the selection. Tools and actions appear next to it.
- Press Enter to copy the result to the clipboard and close the editor. Press Ctrl+S to save it as a PNG.
Press Esc at any time to cancel. While the editor is open, your keystrokes and scrolling don't reach the page underneath.
One key per tool
| Key | Tool |
|---|---|
| M | Adjust the selection |
| V | Select, move and resize annotations |
| R | Rectangle |
| A | Arrow |
| L | Line |
| P | Pen |
| H | Highlighter (hold Shift to keep it straight) |
| T | Text |
| N | Numbered steps: each click adds the next number |
| S | Spotlight: dims everything outside the boxes you draw |
| X | Pixelate |
| B | Blur |
Six colors and three stroke widths sit in the same toolbar. Ctrl+Z undoes and Ctrl+Y redoes. Delete removes the selected annotation. If you delete a numbered step, the other steps renumber.
Actions next to the selection
- Copy (Enter) and Save (Ctrl+S).
- Upload puts the image on Screencap Cloud and gives you a share link. This needs Google sign-in.
- Auto-redact finds emails, card numbers, API keys and other sensitive text in the selection and covers them. It runs on your device. See Hide secrets before you share.
- Extract text reads the selection with the local OCR engine (English).
- Edit in Screencap opens the full editor with your annotations. Use it to crop, add a background or a browser or device frame, or export as JPEG, WebP or PDF.
When it doesn't open
Chrome doesn't let extensions run on some pages: chrome:// pages, the Chrome Web Store, and the built-in PDF viewer. On those pages Screencap can't open the editor.
If Alt+Shift+A does nothing, another extension may use the same shortcut. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set a different one.