Take and Edit screenshots in Ubuntu using Shutter

This post was written by admin on December 10, 2009
Posted Under: General

Shutter is feature-rich screenshot program.You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window,section of window, your whole screen, or even of a website and apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
Features

* take a screenshot of your complete desktop, a rectangular area or capture a website
* take screenshot directly or with a specified delay time
* save the screenshots to a specified directory and name them in a convenient way (using special wild-cards)
* Shutter is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop (TrayIcon etc.)
* generate thumbnails directly when you are taking a screenshot and set a size level in %
* Shutter session collection o keep track of all screenshots during session o copy screeners to clipboard o print screenshots o delete screenshots o rename your file
* upload your files directly to Image-Hosters (e.g. http://ubuntu-pics.de), retrieve all the needed links and share them with others
* edit your screenshots directly using the embedded drawing tool
Install Shutter

Shutter is available from Ubuntu repository.

Go to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center,search shutter and select to install

Or,

Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager,search shutter and mark to install

Using Shutter to take and edit screenshot

Open Shutter from Applications->Accessories menu,click the buttons mark with rectangle to take screenshot,mark with ellipse to edit current screenshot.

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