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Tip

You can change the border color in the Options dialog box. It appears when you click
Options on the main Snipping palette, or when you choose Tools → Options in the
editing window.

A Window Snip neatly captures an entire window, automatically

cropping out the background. And which window does it capture?
That’s up to you. As you point to each window, it appears
highlighted. When the correct one is highlighted, click the mouse.

Note

A “window,” in this context, doesn’t have to be a window. It can also be the taskbar, a
dialog box, and so on.

Full-screen Snip, of course, captures the entire screen.

In each case, the captured image appears in the editing window

(Figure 8-30, bottom).

Editing the Screenshot

What you do now is up to you. For example:

Mark it up. This markup window is a standard Windows 10
feature—the identical toolset appears in several other apps—so this

may be a good place to describe how they work.

The toolbar harbors Pen, Pencil, Highlighter, and Eraser tools for
annotating your masterpiece. The only difference: The Pen tool

makes opaque marks, the Pencil makes fuzzy ones, and the
Highlighter makes translucent ones.

To choose the line thickness and color for a tool, open the pop-
up menu beneath each icon (or right-click the icon, or press and