How to Take Selective Screenshot in Windows 11

Here’s everything you need to know about capturing a screenshot of a selective area on Windows 11.

Do you want to capture what you see on your desktop screen leaving the extras behind? Well, for this, you can use a keyboard shortcut, but remember in-built tools only offer basic functionality. So, if you’re looking for a way to capture a selective screen and edit it at the same time, try using TweakShot, the best screen grab tool in the market. This tool not only allows you to capture a selective screen but also allows you to take a screenshot scrolling window, rectangular region, and more. Furthermore, TweakShot also records videos without a watermark and without a time limit.

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Once you have the tool, you can record webinars, live conferences, and other online activities.

However, if you don’t want to use a third-party tool, no worries, we have got you covered.

In this post, we will not only talk about how to use TweakShot to capture screens. But will also discuss manual ways to take a screenshot of a selective screen manually.

How to Take a Screenshot on Windows 11

The easiest way to save a copy of whatever you see on the desktop is to press the PrintScreen button. However, this won’t capture a selective screen. Instead, it will screenshot everything on the desktop.

But this is not what you want, right? So, now what to do?

Manual ways to take a screenshot of the selective screen on Windows 11?

To capture a specific area on Windows, follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + Shift + S
2. This will grey out the window & you will get a menu with three icons using which you can grab rectangular screen, freeform, fullscreen, & window snip. Pick the one you want to use.
3. Next, drag the changed mouse pointer to select the portion of the screen to capture.
4. The screenshot will be copied to the clipboard, which you can paste into another program.

Note: The shortcut only works on the latest version of Windows.

Save a Screenshot to Your Clipboard

To save the captured screenshot, open the image editor or the word document you want to save and press Ctrl +V.

Note, the in-built image editor doesn’t offer many options to edit the screenshot. Therefore, if you are looking for a tool that allows taking screenshots of the selective screens and edits use TweakShot.

The tool allows you to record and capture screen without watermark. Also, it allows taking screenshots of a scrolling window.

How to Take a Screenshot of a Selective Screen Using TweakShot?

1. Download and install TweakShot – a selective screen capturing tool for Windows.

2. Launch TweakShot.

3. Open the screen or web page you want to capture.
4. Right-click the TweakShot icon present in the system tray > select Capture Region.

5. Select the area to capture.
6. The captured screen will automatically open in the TweakShot image editor.

7. You can now edit the screenshot using the tools given in the left pane. Also, you can upload it to the cloud or can add annotations, steps, numbers whatever you want.

8. That’s it, using TweakShot and these simple steps, you can capture a selective screen.

In addition to capturing the screen, you can use TweakShot to  Capture Youtube Video Screen.

Conclusion

We believe we could explain how you can take a screenshot of the selective screen manually and using TweakShot.

Compared to the manual way, TweakShot is a much more convenient way to capture screens differently, enabling Windows 11, 10, and older versions. The screen capture tool offers a great image editor with more than basic features that helps achieve whatever the user wants. Using TweakShot, you can do a lot more than screen captures. So, what are you waiting for? Give TweakShot a try and use this excellent tool to screenshot and record screens.

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