For Windows I recommend the (free, open source) tool ShareX any time you want to capture something (as a screenshot, video, gif, whatever) and share it (e.g. by uploading it to imgur or Youtube or Twitter or something). It takes a bit to get used to[1], but then it’s immensely powerful and rewarding because it can do so much.
For example, with just 1 click, it can record a screenshot or gif, and upload it to an image hoster, and copy the image URL to your clipboard. That’s pretty neat.
Examples of how I use it: I’ve used it to record gifs of bugs on the Less Wrong website so I can upload them on the Issue Tracker; and for lots of other bug reports; and to take screenshots of puzzle games so I can draw on the screenshots. If I used social media, it would be great there, too.
The main shortcoming I’m aware of is that some features don’t work well on (non-borderless) fullscreen applications. So to record e.g. gameplay videos, I instead use Geforce Experience (restricted to Nvidia GPUs).
E.g. IIRC the default workflow automatically uploads screenshots you take, so don’t try it on sensitive data until you understand how it works. Youtube tutorials and the docs should help, plus you can ask me.
For Windows I recommend the (free, open source) tool ShareX any time you want to capture something (as a screenshot, video, gif, whatever) and share it (e.g. by uploading it to imgur or Youtube or Twitter or something). It takes a bit to get used to[1], but then it’s immensely powerful and rewarding because it can do so much.
For example, with just 1 click, it can record a screenshot or gif, and upload it to an image hoster, and copy the image URL to your clipboard. That’s pretty neat.
Examples of how I use it: I’ve used it to record gifs of bugs on the Less Wrong website so I can upload them on the Issue Tracker; and for lots of other bug reports; and to take screenshots of puzzle games so I can draw on the screenshots. If I used social media, it would be great there, too.
The main shortcoming I’m aware of is that some features don’t work well on (non-borderless) fullscreen applications. So to record e.g. gameplay videos, I instead use Geforce Experience (restricted to Nvidia GPUs).
E.g. IIRC the default workflow automatically uploads screenshots you take, so don’t try it on sensitive data until you understand how it works. Youtube tutorials and the docs should help, plus you can ask me.