Want to share a screenshot with someone and have to obfuscate or blur some sensitive info on your screen?
Unfortunately Windows 10’s built-in Snipping Tool is great for taking a quick capture and copying the image onto the clipboard, but not for obfuscation.
Enter Greenshot, a nifty screen capturing tool that goes the extra mile an offers features like:
- Highlighted selections with customized frames and backgrounds,
- Ability to capture scrolling web pages
- And easy exporting to various applications
Greenshot can be downloaded here.
After installation, Greenshot will be on the Windows taskbar:
Click the icon to perform a capture.
A popup menu now appears to give you the option of capturing a region, a window or a full screen.
Select “Capture Region” and draw a square around the area to capture.
Select “Open in Image Editor”.
Click on the “Obfuscate” button in the left margin.
Select the part you would like to blur. The result is below:
