A picture is altogether worth a thousand words created with memories. One of the most common and major activities done by us on our computers and other electronic gadgets is taking screenshots whether it be important or a casual thing you encountered online.
Clearly, the screenshot is a major part of every gallery out there, they summarize all that you have done and what you are doing. It helps in capturing every unique thing you come across on your digital mirror. Sometimes it is easy to get a screenshot and then there are times when it’s complicated.
When considering tools that captured screenshots. Linux arguably lacks quality tools. There are some special tools that provide easy access and flexibility in screenshots with basic modification and editing.
There are a lot of open source tools available in the market for users that are both properly popular and flexible and provide a considerable amount of helpful features like editing, and recording the displayed screen.
Table of contents
1. Shutter
One the easiest screen-capturing tools available for Linux users and is not worth missing. For this tool you can customize your screenshots as a whole or part, the captured part can be immediately edited. The tool provides you with several other features like highlighting, making notes, sharing it on several online forums, or hosting it on an individual site.
This tool is designed in such a way that creates less or no complications for users. This is said to be one of the most powerful tools present and helps you in hiding private content. To create a screenshot, you either have to launch the shutter app or select it from the notification bar. It ships with the feature of adding effects to your screenshots with the help of numerous plug-ins. this is possibly the most simple and convenient tool that facilitates tooltips and captures specific windows.
2. Imagemagick
A ready-to-run free software made available for Linux users to capture the displaying screen and convert it into images, with an open-source tool for editing. The tool has a quite rich set of commands that allow you to edit, transform, copy, and modify the image.
The user is free to decide the ratio of the screen to be captured. The tool has capabilities beyond imagination that include advanced-level editing such as: – color management/thresholding, command line processing, distributing pixel cache, component labeling, creating animation or GIF, format conversion, etc. the program uses multiple computation threads to improve performance.
3. Gimp
GIMP is a comprehensive image manipulation program that works on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is an open-source cross-platform image editor with the ability to retouch images and take screenshots for distinguished screen ratios.
GIMP provides highly sophisticated tools for image manipulation to restore creativity for artists, graphic designers or photographer’s illustrators. It has a high-quality framework for scripted manipulation, a highly expandable interface, and high-fidelity color reproduction across digital platforms and other elements for user interface components and design elements. After capturing the screenshot, the image will be available on GUI for editing and modifications directly.
4. Deepin Scrot
Deepin Scrot is a highly sophisticated software developed that comes with a limited number of features focusing on easy availability and user-friendliness for Linux users that allows you to capture screenshots and edit. It is characterized as a window identification tool for saving and sharing it on the cloud. The tool also promotes image resolution adjustment while saving. This comes with a set of detailed commands for features.
5. Flameshot
Flameshot is a free and open-source program for taking screenshots with an interactive GUI control. It is easy and quick to use and has a fairly good amount of features for editing. Some of the basic editing tools provided by Flameshot are adding annotations, blurring, pinning images, adding text, copying to a clipboard, and saving and hosting captured images to Imgur.
This tool provides a basic feature for choosing the desired area for capturing. It’s quite a powerful application and supports keyboard shortcuts. It has a highly customizable user interface and is completely configurable.
6. Spectacle
Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screens. It captures images for the entire desktop, a single monitor, a currently working screen, and a screen under a mouse or a specific region on the screen as per the requirement. It facilitates an advanced level of manipulation and editing of images.
The tool launches in GUI mode by default and saves images in a desired file format in the background mode itself. It can upload the captured image to Imgur, NextCloud or share it via Bluetooth, Mail, and Twitter, etc. It supports several image formats such as JPEG, PNG, PBM, TGA, XPM, PCX, MacOS icon, windows icon, etc.
7. Lookit
Lookit is a free straightforward tool known for its easy availability and user-friendly interface. This facilitates the selection of areas for capture and uploads to FTP/SSH, CloudApp, or Imgur servers. After the program is launched the shortcuts can also be customized with hotkeys for the three modes available.
Capture windows (Cltrl+ALT+6)
Capture screen (Cltrl+ALT+5)
Capture window (Cltrl+ALT+4)
8. Kazam
Screenshot, Screencasting, and screen recording program designed for supporting video and image format content from your screen. Aside from visual support originally it is a compatible source for recording sound from the device. It offers a distinguished level of versatility and simplicity.
Kazam is an extremely light file and doesn’t consume much memory space, it is stable for all configurations and precisely it supports bug fixing only for unbuntu 12.04. This is a multi-functional tool that has a silent mode that starts without a GUI.
9. GNOME screenshots
Another wonderful tool used for taking screenshots initially was a part of the genome utility pack but later it was individually introduced as a powerful tool for taking screenshots either as a whole or as a part. This can be used for recording the screen and casting it. You can also add simple effects and borders to the captured image. Shortcuts can also be used which automatically transform the cursor into a crosshair cursor for further processing.
Shortcut key:-:shift+printscreen (prtscr)
10. Screen cloud
Screen Cloud is an easy-to-use cross-platform tool for taking and sharing screenshots on Linux Windows and Mac OS. It is free and open source for capturing screenshots which supports easy sharing and the addition of an FTP server. For quick and easy availability it comes with a system tray. It locally saves the image and instantly creates and copies the link to the clipboard.
