Window Clippings 2.1: How to Get Started

So you’ve compared the results of using Window Clippings with the other options provided by Windows. You’ve installed Window Clippings. You might even have purchased a license. Now what?

Many screen capture tools, and most applications for that matter, make it very obvious that you’re using the product. When you start them up you’ll see a window with menus, buttons, toolbars, possibly even a basic image editor thrown in. Is that a kitchen sink in the Tools menu?

In my mind a screen capture tool should put the emphasis on the screen or at least on the application that you’re trying to capture an image of. And that’s the rationale behind the Window Clippings user experience. Of course newcomers aren’t always sure where to start since they’re probably expecting a typically busy application window. Instead, here’s all you’ll see when you run Window Clippings for the fist time:

As the welcome balloon mentions, you can double click the icon to start capturing images of the screen. You can also press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. The result is a shaded screen that looks something like this:

As the help text points out, you have a few options here as well. For now just double click the window you would like to capture and Window Clippings will save an image of it to a file. You’ve just taken your first “window clipping”:

But where did it go? This time right click the Window Clippings icon and click the “Open Storage Folder” command:

Window Clippings will show the folder where images are stored using Windows Explorer:

There’s a great deal more that you can do with Window Clippings but I’ll leave it there for now as that should be more than enough to get your started. Enjoy!

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© 2008 Kenny Kerr