Audience
People looking for a free open-source screenshot program for Linux based operating systems to capture nearly anything
About Shutter
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. 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. Shutter allows you to capture nearly anything on your screen without loosing control over your screenshots (tabbed interface). Especially if you are taking screenshots for writing tutorials or manuals you need to edit the image, e.g. highlighting some part of it. With Shutter you don’t need to open an external graphics editor like GIMP, because Shutter ships with its own built-in editor. We all spend much of our time in forums, wikis, chats etc. From time to time we need to do some screenshots and upload them so we can share them with other people.
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Free Version available.
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Netlify
Founded: 2014
United States
shutter-project.org
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Linux
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