Are you bored with limited features of screenshot tool in your linux distro? Here is the Shutter, an advanced screenshot tool. It is a must tool for any technology blogger and technical writer. It has amazing features defined as below by the project itself. This post is to introduce this wonderful tool to the community. I have tested and using this tool version 0.85.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.
Features of Shutter
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.
How to install Shutter in Ubuntu 10.04?
$ sudo apt-get install shutter libgoo-canvas-perl gnome-web-photo
Shutter can be launched by Applications -> Accessories -> Shutter.
Variety of screenshots
The main window of Shutter. You can take all types of screenshots from this window. It can be minimized to GNOME panel. The screenshot can be taken for
1. Full desktop
2. Specific area of desktop
3. A Window and child Windows
4. A web page (without navigating to the site, just by providing URL)
5. A Menu
6. A tool tip
Advanced Effect and Enhancement plugins
Here is the 3D rotate effect applied desktop screenshot
Built-in image editing tool
On the spot upload tool
Apart from these features, the Shutter has more advanced Preference dialog which helps us to customize the behavior of tool.
