Using the Free Flameshot Software for taking and annotating Screenshots
Taking screenshots has now become a routine day to day activity for most computer users. While there are many tools to take screenshots, few stand out as Flameshot in terms of ease of use, features and practicality. It is opensource and completely free. It is lightweight and once started, remains available whenever you need with a single keystroke.
In this tutorial I take you through all the features that this fantastic software has to offer in a step-by-step manner. This video tutorial will help you get started and use this software effectively and creatively.
I would like to compliment Team Flameshot for developing this fantastic software and making it available free under opensource license.
Flameshot Version used in this Tutorial: v12.1.0
Timecodes
0:12 Introduction
0:57 Software Download and Installation
3:07 Taking a Screenshot
5:20 Using Flameshot Annotation Tools
5:22 Draw Circle Tool
8:33 Draw Rectangle Tool
9:28 Draw Arrow Tool
10:57 Pen tool for Free Drawing
11:34 Auto Increment Counter
14:21 Text tool
16:55 Filled Rectangle Tool
18:07 Inverter Tool
19:20 Move Selection Area Tool
20:08 Manipulating Size of the Screenshot
21:55 Line Draw Tool
23:27 Pixelate Tool
24:36 Marker Tool
25:47 Using the Pin Tool to create Graphics
33:35 Pin Tool Example 2 : Text Graphic
36:12 Using Flameshot Launcher to take Screen Shots
39:04 Screen Capture on Multiple Monitors
40:33 Custom Configurations
Links to follow
Flameshot Website
https://flameshot.org/
HTML Color Codes
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colo...
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