Screen Capture Extension for Google Chrome

by Shashank Chinchli on September 1, 2010

Planning to have a screenshot with your web browser Chrome  ? Yes that’s possible with one of the extension so called Awesome Screenshot.

Awesome Screenshot is one of the best in-browser screen snapshot alternatives.You can choose to capture the entire webpage, or just the part that’s currently visible in your browser. By resizing your browser window, you can actually dynamically crop your screenshots before they’re taken!

Follow these simple steps to get started.

Visit Google Chrome Extensions gallery and install Awesome Screenshot. It is pretty simple.

have snapshots with chrome browser

After installation, a new icon will appear on the toolbar. Click the icon either to capture visible part of the page only or to capture the entire page.

Awesome Screenshots

When you hit the icon there, you get three options

1.Capture Visible part of the page.
2.Capture  Selected area.
3.Capture  Entire Page.

When you select the Visible part of the page,let URL be http://gurushala.net,then  you would get screen shot opened in a new tab something like below you could see.

There will be a new toolbar at the top of your capture. You can scroll through the capture. You can annotate the capture with text, rectangles, ovals, arrows and lines of different colors. It will help you to focus any specified portion you want.

Once you are done with editing of the picture , click done & you will be shown following screen

Click on Image to see original Image : )

Hit the “Upload” button to share the screenshot online. Your screenshot will be uploaded to an online storage service and a link will be provided.

google chrome extensions

Now, you can share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail with a single click.

Conclusion

Awesome Screenshot is one of the best ways to take quick and informative screenshots from the web with Google Chrome. Keep the responses coming.

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