Review – Free Google Chrome Extension - Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate
I’ve been using the free Google chrome browser extension Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate for a while and thought I’d share it with everyone. Grabbing a quick screen shot is a breeze with Awesome Screenshot. I love being able to save an image of a screen capture without loading up one of my image editing programs such as GIMP!
Not only can you capture and save a screen shot (What you see on your screen), there are a few easy to use tools for quick editing before you save the image. It’s very easy to add notes, draw arrows, circle something or even blur out things you don’t want others to see.
Watch this short video to see Awesome Screenshot in action:
What Tools Do You Use?
Do you have an easy screen capture solution? Do you use browser extensions? I’s love to hear your comments and ideas.
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I will have to check out this extension, since I use chrome all the time.
I take screenshot all the time, but I always use the windows snipping tool for that.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Thanks Samuel, check it out, it’s a huge time saver.
I don’t know this extension.I use the tool capture windows coupled with an image editor which allows more things …
I do the same thing Jerome, whenever I need to make major edits or need to resize. If I just need a quick screen capture, Awesome Screenshot let me save one within a minute. It really depends on what I need to do to prepare the image before I use it. It’s really nice when I want to show something fast on one of the social networks like Twitter.
I’ll give this app a try. I just downloaded it and going to play around with it. Thanks for the tip Brian!
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I also use the same extension, it have interesting and good set features than other available for this job.
I was using snipping tool till yet. Hope this extension is more flexible from that tool.
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Great source of information Brian!
I haven’t really tried out any of such tools, I guess I never knew about them except for good old Photoshop! But yes, that does take a long time to download the picture and then work on it there. This seems a much easier solution that I am going to try out right away.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Great post. Didn’t know that there is an extension for chrome. Thanks
Hey Brian,
This is such a rad tool! I’m an evangelical Google product user who is pretty much 99% Chrome all the time (except where IE is forced upon us). I hadn’t heard of this extension yet, but do use some things which are similar (excessive Evernote user here). I’m definitely going to get this installed on my browser!
Thanks for the great video and heads up!
Have a rockin week!
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Thank you Brian for sharing this extension with us, It can be really useful for quickly taking screenshot to use it in blog post. I’ve been using similar extensions for couple of months now, it’s called “webpage screenshot” and it has all those options for editing picture and more.
Hope someone will find it useful like i do. And I’m hooked with all these extensions for google chrome
Thanks for sharing such a great tool with every one. I use Chrome as my secondary browser, so this would help cut down a lot of time using other screen capture techniques. As its name goes it really is awesome.
Wow, that’s a pretty good browser extension. I have never thought about how useful it could be to save a screen shot. I rarely even use Chrome but I’m going to give the Awesome Screenshot a try today, thanks.
I have been a great fan of this extensions,it’s one of the most complex extension out there in the market and it really rocks.
Really great browser exaction you share with us.Its great features and images quality.
The best screenshot capture I have used. It does have a quirk in that sometimes the toolbar button disappears and there is no way of configuring an option to have it on the addon toolbar and/or in the tools menu.
I just discovered this screen capute and its awesome. At my office they have most screen snappers blocked but this one works!!
hey Brian,
hows you i was using this extension but when ever i install it in my Chrome it make my browser heavy and it started hanging which really irritating
Great experience Brian with this screenshots. I love the tool and gonna download it soonest
Thanks Brian for the Chrome extension.
I found your blog yesterday but a bit busy trying the apps and forget to comment in here.
I always do the screenshot.. This is what I love about using the Google. They give an awesome tools for users.
Thanks for sharing this.
This new Chrome extension rocks. It allows us to take screen of the entire page or only the visible part of the page. We this extension we can quickly take screen shots.
I don’t use this extension anymore, now I just use Photoshop + print screen because I don’t like installing too many plugins or extensions
This extension is what I need for a quick screen shot in chrome. I can also edit the image. Cool. Thanks for the share Brian.
I have got SnagIt which is a great premium app but this being a free app and that too contained within the browser without need of an external installation, it is awesome
I will try this extention, i looking that extention screen shoot very nice. Thanks for share
The best tool that I like is the built in snipping tools with windows and mac. Mac is the best as ctrl+SHIFT+4 launches their default snipping tool to capture any portion of a screen. In windows you have to launch the microsoft built in snip tool from the start button, but you can assign it a shortkey. I just assign it the same shortcut key as the Mac and I never have to worry about forgeting it.
I use Chrome as my main browser so that’s why this post is very useful for me. I will try to make screenshots with the help of these extensions
I’ve been using FastStone Image Capture for a while for screen capturing and editing, but I am also a Chrome user so this extension could really make my life easier. Thanks for the useful information, I’ve never heard about this feature before, although I had been searching for something like that for a while, when I found your blog.
I use Firefox awesome screenshot plugin but it’s a bit slow and crashing problem in Firefox.Hope these extension support me to overcome from these issues.
This is exactly what I am looking for. I use another application for screenshot but it takes me at least 5-10 minutes to edit the image and save it for my blog. Thanks a lot for sharing.
This is really nice, Brian. My work requires me to get screenshots often and I had to do it the old way – pressing print screen then pasting it on Paint. I think Awesome Screenshot will help me do things faster. I usually use the Firefox browser but I’d love to use Chrome with this amazing tool. Thank you.
Chrome extensions and chrome browser are the 21th century most lovable things by me. I also like that you tube chrome extension as well as.
My girlfriend has a Mac type of software that does this. She loves it. You can write all over your capture and make notes etc.
Thanks for the share. I’ve been searching where to get this free
screen capture tool. this is great!
This is cool. I’m excited to try this out. Thank you so much for the information. Keep it up.
Great post. I never use chrome. I always use FireFox. But By this time your post inspires me to use chrome. I start use chrome as soon as possible. Many many thanks for your information.
IF this is exactly how it is going to working without hanging the browser… then this is a clear time saver… EPIC!
Good to see Google adding all these tools to the Chrome browser. Personally I feel that Chrome is the fastest browser with a great deal of features. However I have to juggle between Mozilla and Chrome for the SEO plugins. Hope that Google add something like SEOquake in Chrome. Anyways just tried the screen shot and it was awesome with all the editing tools available. It has just made my life easier.
Nice sharing. I have never tries tools to capture screenshot. But it looks cool. I will definitely check this tool.
That looks really useful. The firefox one I’d been using didn’t update with the last firefox upgrade. Thanks.
This is a very informative post! thanks for providing us this useful information about screenshot. I love this tool and i’m so excited to try this.
The video is awesome.I have never used free Google chrome browser extension Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate.I liked the feature of being able to use the tools for quick editing and then save an image of a screen capture without loading any of the image editing programs.
Hi Brian, I use Awesome Screenshot too. There’s another screen capture tool that I like called Lightshot that lets you capture images from YouTube videos. I tried this with Awesome Screenshot and it didn’t work, so I’ll leave a link in CommentLuv so you can take a look at a video I did about this one. Let me know what you think.
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Aah, that right there is the reason I just love Chrome – the endless extensions for almost everything.
This one looks damn awesome, can’t wait to give it a shot, thank you.
I don’t use any tools for Google Chrome but I got the button called PRINT SCREEN. Every time, I press on it, it will automatically capture the screen. That tool is so good, I don’t have to add any additional ScreenCapture like the above.
Maybe your computer has it too. And you can definitely use it without add any additional plugins. That’s way you can save more space on your computer.
Thank You – Ferb
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Really Awesome Extension For Google Chrome. I have been using this for long time. It always helps me take snap From webpages as well as editing on that snap.
Great post. I was using snipping tool yet. Thanks for sharing this flexible tool.
Easiest screen capture tool out there. Hands down, love it! So what exactly are you penguins talking about up there?
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I’m happy that this is already available right now. I actually have simpler screenshots in my computer but I think this one’s more convenient to use.
very good extension , i’m running a technology blog . in my blog i need to write few tutorials weekly . This awesome screenshot plugin is help me to make my work very easy . nice share
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hi john, i really love chrome now most of the plugins are supported in chrome and this extension is best for photo capturing…
I am using different extension for Chrome, but Firefox is my default browser. However, even without extra extension or software, the old school magic combination of “CTRL+PringScreen SysRQ” is doing a perfect job.
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Hey Brian, I think Awesome Screenshot is ‘AWESOME’ screen capture tool.
As I am a frequent user of Chrome Browser, I do use this extension very often. As I do have a technology blog, often I need such screen capture tools. 
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Brain I never knew about these essential tools I use the same old trick of holding the “Print Screen” button and than pasting the screenshot in the Adobe Photoshop to save an image after some editing but this extension seems very good to save time.
Hi Brain!
I really wanted to use that Chrome app but wondering how to tackle with the permissions issue, it says ‘the app can access all data of my computer’ isn’t it little scary? :S
Thanks,
Joe
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