You can switch between native and custom shadow effects after capture. WinSnap captures screenshots in a much more sophisticated way than other tools, applies customizable effects with no effort and allows you to add comments with just a couple of clicks. You can also highlight certain area on the screenshot using colorize and blur effects: Now you can easily highlight text and rectangular areas on your screenshots: Highlight tool draws multicolor highlights: Pixelate tool can be used to quickly remove sensitive information from screenshots:

It provides sufficient image editing capabilities for the most frequent use cases: adding arrows, lines, shapes and text comments. With WinSnap, you don’t even need to consider a full-fledged image editor. For the Region mode, you can enable the “Fixed Size” option to quickly capture regions of the same size. Two other capture modes allow you to capture the whole screen or a portion of the screen. To enable advanced options use the “dot” menu next to the Window capture mode:

On the screenshot below, the Calculator window is captured with Snipping Tool, then the Snipping Tool window itself is captured with WinSnap. Nowadays, even the built-in Snipping Tool can’t compete with WinSnap in capturing window effects on Windows 11. WinSnap 1.0 was originally designed to capture windows with rounded corners on Windows XP, then Windows Vista came out with Aero Glass window styles and WinSnap 2.0 was updated to preserve titlebar transparency and native window shadows as well.

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