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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by zie on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:45PM (#40653959)
I don't understand the fascination with blur. It's terrible from a security/privacy perspective. The data is still in the image. Sure you can add randomization to the blur to make it less easy to undo(I haven't looked if Flameshot does or not, most don't). If you crop the stuff you want out of the image, there is no data there to do anything with.

Every screenshot tool I've ever come across has a blur tool but no cut tool. So I just use the OS specific screenshoter and then load it up in an image editor and cut to my hearts content.

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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by eviks on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:09AM (#40654414)
With blur there can also be no data (as you said -with randomization, you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one).

But the fascination is easily explained - it looks better as it "fits" the rest of your image vs having some jarring black rectangle

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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by zie on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:26PM (#40660671)
> you can even blur randomized text instead of the real one

I've never ever seen that in the wild, but that would def. make it sane to use the blur tool.

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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by MemphisTrain on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:59PM (#40654016)
Flameshot has a draw-rectangle function. So you can just draw a red or black rectangle on top of things.
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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by zie on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:23PM (#40660650)
And since it's a PNG file, I assume, It won't be layered! nice!
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Re:Flameshot – Powerful, yet simple to use open-source scree... by __fst__ on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:55AM (#40654983)
I sometimes (but rarely) use blur to shift the attention focus on certain screen regions by blurring out other parts. Like an inverted highlighter. But mostly I actually use the highlighter function :-)
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