I hope they consider improving that someday. Lightshot is an okay program that is 80% of the way there but that last 20% of missing user experience consideration is really noticeable.

That's a shame because with some UX changes they could do it all in the one tool. I tried to use these features for a while but now I have mostly given up and use it for the one task of selecting an area of the screen to save as an image and then open that saved image in a different image editor to do the markup.

Adding text is infuriating because there is no editor box to allow changing font size/type - though I've heard there are some hidden hotkeys like scrollwheel for some of this but I haven't learned the secret language to make these hidden Lightshot features closer to useable. The color selector being colored pencils is strange and not very useful - I wish it had a simpler color selector or allowed hex codes/color names to ensure I was using the same colors consistently between screenshots. Selecting different tools barely shows a difference in the button highlighting or in the cursor so it's hard to tell what tool you're about to use. I often times find myself trying to draw a box to highlight something and instead it moves the frame of what's selected instead so the whole screenshot image changes. On the surface it does a similar job but the usability is much worse. Also, Snipping Tool fails to capture overlay windows (those translucent windows mostly used by desktop gadgets).Lightshot really makes me miss Greenshot. You may ask, what's wrong with Microsoft's own Snipping Tool? It's great, but unfortunately restricted to the Windows Tablet PC Edition, and some versions of Vista. This one offers directness, ease of use, and does it with style. Sure, there are loads of free screen capture tools, but this is not another cheesy, spreadsheet-looking one.

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