Your first capture,
in two minutes.

1. Install and choose your key

1. Run the installer. One click, no questions; Shotoshot starts by itself and waits in the tray, next to the clock.
2. Confirm your capture key. The first time, a small window proposes Print Screen. Keep it, or press any other key or combination: Pause and single keys work too.
3. Change it later from the tray icon, under Shortcuts. The same menu sets the language, the instant capture key and whether Shotoshot starts with Windows.

2. Capture and annotate

1. Press your key and drag over an area. The toolbars appear beside it. Nothing is final yet: pull the eight handles to reframe, or click the W × H badge to type an exact size.
2. Draw. The arrow is already in your hand. Pick another tool with its letter, a color with 1 to 6, and roll the mouse wheel for a thicker or thinner stroke.
3. Fix anything. Press V and click a shape to move, resize, rotate or recolor it. Ctrl+Z undoes.
4. Send it. Ctrl+C copies the image, ready to paste in a chat or an email. Ctrl+S saves a PNG, a JPEG or an editable .shoto. Esc closes without keeping anything.

Taking several captures in a row? The next one opens on the same area, already selected. Click outside it to draw a new one; after five quiet minutes, Shotoshot starts from a blank screen again.

3. The toolbars, button by button

Hover any button in Shotoshot and its name and key appear. Here they all are at once.

1. Select V
   Click, Shift+click or drag a box to pick shapes, then move, resize or rotate them.
2. Rectangle R
   Shift draws a square, Alt draws from the center.
3. Ellipse C
   A circle from the center; Alt makes it an ellipse.
4. Line L
   Shift keeps it at 45° steps.
5. Arrow A
   Hold Ctrl or Alt and its end sticks to a shape, then follows it.
6. Pen P
   Freehand, lightly smoothed.
7. Highlighter H
   Translucent; overlapping strokes never get darker.
8. Text T
   Click to write, click a text to edit it. The wheel sets its size.
9. Eraser E
   Takes shapes away, and rubs out freehand ink where it passes.

1. Live capture F2
   Unfreezes the screen: copying or saving grabs the moment you click.
2. Six colors 1…6
   Red, yellow, green, blue, white and black.
3. Color wheel S
   Any shade; your last one is remembered.
4. Eyedropper I
   Picks any pixel on screen and copies its hex code.
5. Bucket G
   Recolors a line, fills a shape or the whole capture. Right-click clears.
6. Undo, redo Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Y
   Every change, one step at a time.
7. Google Lens Ctrl+G
   Searches the selected area, only when you ask.
8. Copy Ctrl+C
   The clean image: annotations in, toolbars and handles out.
9. Save Ctrl+S
   PNG, JPEG or editable .shoto, in the folder you used last.
10. Close Esc
    Ends the capture.

Beside the area, the W × H badge takes an exact size (it even does the math: 1920/2), and the button next to it, F, selects the whole screen. Tab hides every toolbar for a clean look.

4. Beyond the capture

Three more things live in the tray menu, each with its own key, all on Windows.

• Instant screenshotOne key, Scroll Lock by default, saves the screen you are on to your Desktop without opening the editor.
• PresentationA halo around the pointer, your keys on screen, and arrows that fade away (Alt+A, Alt+R, Alt+C) while you demo or stream.
• The BoardAlt+B writes notes straight onto your wallpaper, under your icons. Esc when you are done.
• Reopen a .shotoDouble-click it and every arrow, box and text is still an object you can move.

On Linux

Extract the archive and run sh install.sh, no admin rights needed. Linux does not let apps listen to the keyboard, so bind a shortcut to shotoshot --capture in your system settings. Captures are saved straight to your Pictures folder. Presentation, the Board, live capture and the instant screenshot are Windows only for now.