For most users, capturing the screen comes down to pressing “Print Screen” and pasting the result into an editor… but it can be much more than that. Flameshot offers a more advanced environment, with precise controls to define the final size of the image, drawing tools, and the ability to save your captures directly to the cloud, anonymously.
Capturing the screen is an essential action these days. Everything goes through a chat, what a bot says, or ephemeral information that can disappear in seconds. The capture became a safeguard, an extra protection against conflicting data and circumstances. For that reason, it’s never a bad idea to have a more specialized application, and with that in mind we arrive at the Flameshot portal. Designed mainly for Linux users, Flameshot has a portable build on Windows, and it works very well.
How to customize your screenshots with Flameshot
Instead of using “Print Screen” to take a blind capture, Flameshot automatically opens an interface that invites you to select the exact size of the capture with the mouse. This is very useful for getting screenshots on YouTube, or copying data from an app/platform/service that for some reason blocks traditional capture.
This interface includes a series of icons at the bottom, with tools to draw freehand, create lines, arrows, or counter points (excellent in tutorials and step-by-step guides), and pixelate content. We can also relocate the selection area, send the capture to the clipboard, save a local copy, or store it anonymously in the cloud. The service used by Flameshot is Imgur, and we can delete images at any time.
Flameshot is compatible with Windows in 64-bit editions, macOS via Homebrew or by downloading the .dmg file, and various flavors of Linux, with special versions on the Snap Store and Flathub. The Windows build hasn’t received updates in a couple of years, but it didn’t present any problems during our tests. Link below!
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