There’s no way to RESIZE the image you snip? How stupid is that? I need to make the damn snips SMALLER so I can use them! Without that functionality, the thing is junk.
I have to say I was spoiled using SnagIt. I could add bubbles arrows, text box and more. I don’t see any of that functionality with Snip & Sketch Am I missing something in my version or does the functionality I mention not exist with Snip & Sketch? My company won’t allow me to download SnagIt and I feel handicapped without it. Are there plans or are their tools to make Snip & Sketch more user friendly for preparing slides or presentations?
when ia someone going to come up with a snipping tool that allows you to type in notes from a keyboard rather than having to add notes using your mouse or finger. It’s rediculous!
I think it’s obvious you used other tools to make this article, e.g. arrows and bubbles with numbers, proving the point those functions are missing. Hand drawn arrows and text just look bad imho.
they should have a date time stamp that is configured to work off the time date of the computer. I capture screen shots as receipts and the time date stamp would help a lot
It would be really good to see some additional markup tools added like a shaped outline tool to allow you to neatly draw circles, ovals or rectangles or arrows to neatly highlight parts of your snip.
It needs a text tool, much like Paint had.
hand writing with a mouse is difficult and inconsistient, for markups I need to add lots of text.
A cloud drawing tool would be a really cool addition, with engineering markups this is traditional.
It would be great to be able to have a little more control on drawing – for instance I want a circle, line or any other shape but don’t want it free-form.
It would be nice to be able to type text as well.
I found this editing tool useful, and has found its niche in between many other tools that I use. The ruler and protractor tools are great. Would be nice to have shortcut for switching between horizontal and vertical ruler orientation.
I like that I can handwrite things on the snip & sketch image, but why can’t I choose to type a comment on there?! My mouse writing is very rudimentary and when I’m trying to add a password to my screenshot, it is very important that it can be read. No being able to type it in seems crazy to me.
Add the capability to create a text box and type an annotation. Include the ability to move the textbox around, resize, transparency, and the ability to add pointers to create a callout.
the ruler doesn’t work completely. it wont rotate at all no matter how i try. using numbers, arrows, mouse wheel, left click, right click, clicking and mouse wheel, clicking and arrows, clicking and numbers. there is go guide or settings to change how hotkeys work, there is no info on how to use the program from the program. i am forced to search the internet to find info that should be under a help tab or link that shows you how to use the tools. what is the point of having tools if you don’t show people how to use them? yes its completely basic and a 5 yr old should be able to use it but when the tool isn’t working how it should there needs to be info on what we might be doing wrong.
I agree with the previous comments re: the ability to type – Snippet had the Paint 3D option that allowed for Text Annotation (and more) – why has that disappeared from this new version?
This is a great time save for me, especially when I just need a quick illustration to show an overlaid grid to a client. One thing that could make it even better, if you could insert a basic font via keyboard. The pencil tool is too bulky for annotations.
The Touch Writing button is NOT for switching between mouse and touch. According to Microsoft’s official documentation, the Touch Writing button is for switching between mouse/touch AND pen.
When the Touch Writing button is disabled, you can draw using a pen on a pen-compatible tablet or screen, but use touch to pan the image around. Touch wouldn’t draw on the image, but rather move it around. Only the pen can draw on the image.
When the Touch Writing button is enabled, you can use touch to draw on the image. It isn’t clear what the pen would do here, but I assume it would also draw on the image.
With mouse input, the button has no effect whatsoever. You can enable or disable it, but there’s absolutely no difference. You can draw on the image any time by clicking and dragging the mouse pointer around. Not the best way to draw, but what else can you do without touch input?
how do you reduce the size of an image or picture? is it only me? everytime i open up an image i have snipped, that image is almost 30000x magnified and there is no way i can make it smaller so i can work on it.
Snip and Sketch offers a comfortable way to take screenshots of the exact area of the screen you want to capture. I found it ideal for this and it is also useful if you want to immediately share that image.
While being able to add text would be a welcome addition, you can use Paint for that purpose.
Hi
it’s a gerat tool, but would be even more perfect if we could add shapes, like circling a word or adding a rectangle highlighting an important section.
thanks
How to we supply feedback for Snip and Sketch? Is there a “User Voice” site? I love the snipping tool, but would like to be able to add text from the keyboard plus nice straight arrows to show what this annotation refers to. Without this my snips look amateur.
Where is the option to highlight the selected area (usually in fine red ink)? The old Snipping Tool has this. Ideal when snip is pasted into a Word doc. I Won’t use this app until that feature is provided
I’ve got a desktop PC with a bluetooth Logitech wireless mouse running Setpoint as a driver. Using the mouse wheel I can not make the rule rotate or the protractor change size?
On our PCs, rotating the ruler or changing the protractor size works by scrolling the mouse wheel. Just make sure that you click on the ruler or protractor before scrolling.
Snip & Sketch doesn’t have a “window mode” and yes, you can only use the corners to crop an image. These are things that are missing right now but, seeing that the app is distributed via the Microsoft Store, it will probably get updates with new features rather often.
53 Responses to “How to edit screenshots and images using Snip & Sketch”
Why can we not type on a snip???
How do I MEASURE an angle?
How do I MEASURE WITH THE RULER?
There’s no way to RESIZE the image you snip? How stupid is that? I need to make the damn snips SMALLER so I can use them! Without that functionality, the thing is junk.
I have to say I was spoiled using SnagIt. I could add bubbles arrows, text box and more. I don’t see any of that functionality with Snip & Sketch Am I missing something in my version or does the functionality I mention not exist with Snip & Sketch? My company won’t allow me to download SnagIt and I feel handicapped without it. Are there plans or are their tools to make Snip & Sketch more user friendly for preparing slides or presentations?
Do they let you download Screenpresso? (see https://www.screenpresso.com)
when ia someone going to come up with a snipping tool that allows you to type in notes from a keyboard rather than having to add notes using your mouse or finger. It’s rediculous!
I think it’s obvious you used other tools to make this article, e.g. arrows and bubbles with numbers, proving the point those functions are missing. Hand drawn arrows and text just look bad imho.
I would like to rotate the cropped picture before or after cropping. In one degree incurments or less. Not rotating the ruler.
they should have a date time stamp that is configured to work off the time date of the computer. I capture screen shots as receipts and the time date stamp would help a lot
Is there a way to type over a capture?
why do cropped images end up in the center of the screen? I want them in the upper left corner.
It would be really good to see some additional markup tools added like a shaped outline tool to allow you to neatly draw circles, ovals or rectangles or arrows to neatly highlight parts of your snip.
Nice its great i like it its so useful for me and i got interesting information from your works…
Pencil Sketch
NO, I don’t like it, the old version is much more helpful.
It needs a text tool, much like Paint had.
hand writing with a mouse is difficult and inconsistient, for markups I need to add lots of text.
A cloud drawing tool would be a really cool addition, with engineering markups this is traditional.
It would be great to be able to have a little more control on drawing – for instance I want a circle, line or any other shape but don’t want it free-form.
It would be nice to be able to type text as well.
Is there a way to add typed text to a screen shot?
I found this editing tool useful, and has found its niche in between many other tools that I use. The ruler and protractor tools are great. Would be nice to have shortcut for switching between horizontal and vertical ruler orientation.
how to remove the ruler or the protractor ?
I have the same question. I wish someone would answer it.
How do you add the red-dotted numbered indicator to an screenshot? I can not find them in e.g. Paint.
I like that I can handwrite things on the snip & sketch image, but why can’t I choose to type a comment on there?! My mouse writing is very rudimentary and when I’m trying to add a password to my screenshot, it is very important that it can be read. No being able to type it in seems crazy to me.
How about the ability to type a message inside the screen?
Great I can rotate a ruler, but cannot even rotate the image!
Add the capability to create a text box and type an annotation. Include the ability to move the textbox around, resize, transparency, and the ability to add pointers to create a callout.
the ruler doesn’t work completely. it wont rotate at all no matter how i try. using numbers, arrows, mouse wheel, left click, right click, clicking and mouse wheel, clicking and arrows, clicking and numbers. there is go guide or settings to change how hotkeys work, there is no info on how to use the program from the program. i am forced to search the internet to find info that should be under a help tab or link that shows you how to use the tools. what is the point of having tools if you don’t show people how to use them? yes its completely basic and a 5 yr old should be able to use it but when the tool isn’t working how it should there needs to be info on what we might be doing wrong.
If I can’t add typed text to the image, it is worthless to me as a tool
I agree with the previous comments re: the ability to type – Snippet had the Paint 3D option that allowed for Text Annotation (and more) – why has that disappeared from this new version?
Is there a way to convert a color snip to gray scale?
How can I please cut and paste in a photo in snip & sketch?
Many thanks in advance
Being able to type annotations would make Snip & Sketch a genuine improvement over Snip.
This is a great time save for me, especially when I just need a quick illustration to show an overlaid grid to a client. One thing that could make it even better, if you could insert a basic font via keyboard. The pencil tool is too bulky for annotations.
Please add the ability to resize the ruler.
Is there a way to delete an image in Snip & Sketch or do you just close the App?
Close the app and it dissapears from the clipboard.
The Touch Writing button is NOT for switching between mouse and touch. According to Microsoft’s official documentation, the Touch Writing button is for switching between mouse/touch AND pen.
When the Touch Writing button is disabled, you can draw using a pen on a pen-compatible tablet or screen, but use touch to pan the image around. Touch wouldn’t draw on the image, but rather move it around. Only the pen can draw on the image.
When the Touch Writing button is enabled, you can use touch to draw on the image. It isn’t clear what the pen would do here, but I assume it would also draw on the image.
With mouse input, the button has no effect whatsoever. You can enable or disable it, but there’s absolutely no difference. You can draw on the image any time by clicking and dragging the mouse pointer around. Not the best way to draw, but what else can you do without touch input?
Keyboard and mouse are the common used interfaces and no f…. grease marks on the screen
how do you reduce the size of an image or picture? is it only me? everytime i open up an image i have snipped, that image is almost 30000x magnified and there is no way i can make it smaller so i can work on it.
I cannot see the use of Snip and Sketch if you cannot also add text.
Snip and Sketch offers a comfortable way to take screenshots of the exact area of the screen you want to capture. I found it ideal for this and it is also useful if you want to immediately share that image.
While being able to add text would be a welcome addition, you can use Paint for that purpose.
Hi
it’s a gerat tool, but would be even more perfect if we could add shapes, like circling a word or adding a rectangle highlighting an important section.
thanks
How to we supply feedback for Snip and Sketch? Is there a “User Voice” site? I love the snipping tool, but would like to be able to add text from the keyboard plus nice straight arrows to show what this annotation refers to. Without this my snips look amateur.
You supply feedback through the Feedback Hub app that is found on all Windows 10 PCs.
Where is the option to highlight the selected area (usually in fine red ink)? The old Snipping Tool has this. Ideal when snip is pasted into a Word doc. I Won’t use this app until that feature is provided
Wish we could draw a rectangle easily. Any way to perform this?
Maybe an option to put in data with your keyboard so I can type some text
Sorry, just read the previous comment and see is is not possible
I want to annotate screenshots using text input from my keyboard plus the odd arrow/pointer, most of my time is spent on devices without touch input
Marking other than highlighting (better done with a mouse selection( is something I would use less.
Unfortunately, this is not supported in the current version of the Snip & Sketch app.
I’ve got a desktop PC with a bluetooth Logitech wireless mouse running Setpoint as a driver. Using the mouse wheel I can not make the rule rotate or the protractor change size?
Does this not work with a mouse?
On our PCs, rotating the ruler or changing the protractor size works by scrolling the mouse wheel. Just make sure that you click on the ruler or protractor before scrolling.
In Snipping Tool, you can choose Free-form, Rectangle, Window, or Full-screen modes. Where, in Snip & Sketch, is the Window mode? Am I missing it?
Also, as far as cropping goes, in Photos, you can grab the corners or the edges to crop an image. In Snip & Sketch, you can only grab the corners.
Snip & Sketch doesn’t have a “window mode” and yes, you can only use the corners to crop an image. These are things that are missing right now but, seeing that the app is distributed via the Microsoft Store, it will probably get updates with new features rather often.
Latest version has Window Mode! When you start a new snip, there’s a button with two overlapping boxes and a plus sign. That’s for Window Mode.