ShareX [Screenshot Tool]

Benefits #

ShareX is free, open-source, and always updates compared to other programs such as Snipe tool by Windows.

ShareX allows you to highlight, add shapes (circles and boxes), add text, add blurs/pixilation for censorship and arrows directly onto your screen shot capture.
ShareX allows you to capture Gifs [Video]
Very strong for creating quick instructions and guides to send to someone quickly or even help build a guide like this.
Super easy to use straight from the task bar.

How / Where to download ShareX #

Visit https://getsharex.com/downloads/

Download the latest version by release date.

You will then be redirected to a GitHub page.
Download the one that is called setup.exe

If on Windows, it will ask you to allow the application, quite simply just hit yes!
Read and Accept the license agreement then hit “Next”

Next screen will mention Select Additional Tasks
You can enable or disable each one, but for easy access it would be best to just keep each one enabled.
Then go “Next”, it will then install the files.
It will complete, and ask to “Launch ShareX” which of course you want to have it be running.
And then finish.

Getting Started with ShareX Screenshot tool #

At the bottom right you will now have this easy access screenshot capture tool.

Left clicking it will lead region select.

Notice at the top of the screen now you have a bunch of tools to use.
Hover over the tools in the image below to learn about each tool.

• The first 3 shapes are is how you you want to screenshot a section.
  • I recommend only using the first shape for screenshotting a region, a square/rectangle is the cleanest to use.

• Mouse is to move the mouse on the screenshot, sometimes it may be blocking something.
• Rectangle will place a rectangle shape on anywhere you decide.

• Eclipse / circle is the same thing, you can create a circle anywhere in the screenshot.
• Pencil is for free hand drawing, you can make draw a symbol or whatever you need such as letters or

The next two are Line tools, these go from start to end in a straight line in any direction.
One is just point to point line, and the next one is point to arrow. Good for pointing directions.

• Text: As it implies, you can click anywhere and add text. You can change the size and font in the menu that pops up. But its not very easy to use but if you really want to add text to a screen capture then you can!

You can skip these, if you want to try and use them you can! 

• Eraser will fill in smartly fill in boxes, which is helpful you want to hide something in a screenshot but don’t want to make it obvious with a blur.

• Blur (B) will blur anything in a rectangle region. Again helpful for hiding sensitive information.
  • Pixelate (H) is the same thing, but instead of blurring it will do large pixels of colors which may hide better OR worse what you are attempting to hide.

• Highlighter (H) as one can suspect, it will highlight a region. This may be helpful on white surfaces, but if you really want to bring notice to something try instead the Rectangle, Eclipse, or any of the line tools.

The next two are Line tools, these go from start to end in a straight line in any direction.
One is just point to point line, and the next one is point to arrow. Good for pointing directions.

• When using this tool, you can change the color of the box and fill here with these icons.

In this image I will show some of the tools I used.

Recording Gifs #

Recording things with gifs is way may helpful and so when you need to show someone something, always try and do gifs instead as it shows your mouse movements and menus you may bring up.

1. Right click the Icon
2. Go to Capture > Screen Recording (Gif)
3. And now you will select the region in which you will want to capture.

Finding previous Captures #

Any gifs or screenshots you take are already copied instantly to your clipboard, so pasting what you just screen captured will work seamlessly! No need to export.
Did you accidently copy something else or lost the screen capture? No problem!

1. Right Click the ShareX icon.
2. Then go to Screenshots Folder.
3. All your captures will be in there!
   1. The file name will typically read what application it was, so if you screen captured chrome, it will be named Chrome_xxxxxx

And that is how you use ShareX!

There’s a bunch of things you can do with ShareX but for most use cases have been covered and the rest are mostly unnecessary.

If you have any questions about this guide or would like to add anything please contact Mashiron on Discord!