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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by RajT88 on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:42PM (#37560225)
Windows 11 snipping tool is unnecessarily clunky and garbage as well.

What I do on any Win11 machine is keep an archived copy of Windows 10's System32 folder, and pin the old copies of apps to my start menu.

...From my cold dead hands!

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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by gibolt on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:46PM (#37560290)
Yeah, Mac solved this so elegantly.

Windows really needs a simple default hotkey to do a partial screen capture quickly, and save it to a reasonable directory.

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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by adrenvi on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:59PM (#37560452)
Win + Shift + S allows you to select a rectangular region and copy the image data to clipboard.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by secondcoming on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:24PM (#37561525)
Yes. This changed my life. I use it every day.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by zadjii on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:02PM (#37560491)
I mean, win+shift+s (the default snipping tool hotkey) to grab a snip is pretty elegant IMO. Copies it straight to the clipboard, or lets you save (& edit) it from the notification. Probably one of my most used shortcuts.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by Macha on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:14PM (#37564062)
Indeed, on Mac I normally end up swapping the cmd-shift-4 (screenshots to file, can open in preview instead) with cmd-shift-option-4 (screenshots to clipboard) as the latter is basically what I always want.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by koolant on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:04PM (#37560519)
Win + Shift + S has been there for ages now.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by IYasha on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:48PM (#37586522)
what ages exactly? (I don't use windows now but need to know)
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by vxNsr on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:08AM (#37630055)
At least since 2017 I wanna say.
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by fortran77 on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:55PM (#37561136)
Have you ever used Windows?
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support by hulitu on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:54PM (#37561902)
Printscreen to capture the whole screen. Alt + Printscreen to capture the current active window.
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