--shots

--shots: Capture & Share Screenshots

A screenshot tool with built-in annotation, support for scrolling screenshots, and cloud storage integration.

What is --shots?

--shots is a free and open source screenshot tool for Linux. It aims to make capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots easy and fast.

Some of the key features of --shots include:

• Intuitive user interface - The tool is designed to be very user-friendly with an easy to navigate UI.
• Annotation tools - Annotate your screenshots by adding text boxes, arrows, shapes and more before uploading or sharing them. This makes your screenshots more informative.
• Scrolling screenshot support - Capture long webpages or chat logs by taking scrolling screenshots that stitch content together.
• Cloud uploads - Directly upload your captured screenshots to cloud storage services like Imgur, Flickr or your own Nextcloud instance after editing them.
• Customizable naming - Configure automatic naming and destination folder for saved screenshots.
• Sharing options - Quickly copy screenshot image to clipboard or markdown/HTML embed code to share with others.
• Screen recording support - Along with screenshots, --shots also allows screen casting into animated GIF images.
• Lightweight and fast - Uses very minimal system resources so your computer performance is not affected.

Overall, if you take a lot of screenshots for work, tutorials or guides then --shots aims to improve and simplify that process for you with its intuitive tools.

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