Free Open-Source screenshot tool

Screenshots are very important in articles and tutorials to show practical uses. The most common method for taking screenshot is by pressing the print screen button and then pasting it in Ms-paint. This is ok if you need the screenshot of the full screen, but many times you may just want to take screenshot of  a region or part of the screen. To accomplice this you may have to have a image editing software. Now this can be very tiresome if there are too  many screenshots, lot of productive time is wasted. This problem can be easily solved using a professional screenshot tool. Here is one such open source tool.

Greenshot
Greenshot is a free and opensource utility software to quickly take screenshots of the screen or part of the screen. It is optimised for maximum productivity. You can later add text or crop the image.Greenhost can be also used to easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. Its a boon to the technology writers and bloggers.

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