Awesome Screenshot: A Handy Tool For Capturing Web Pages

Awesome Screenshot!! We call it when we see an amazingly captured web page with well defined texts, notifications and markers to explain the things more specifically. Awesome Screenshot is one of those tools that provide us number of ways to capture a web page with the option to add text, markers and allows us to crop the image as per need. This add on is available for both Mozilla and Chore browsers and have various advantages over keyboard’s print screen command.


How to download “Awesome Screenshot” for Mozilla?

Step 1: Open Mozilla and search for “awesome screenshot plus for mozilla”

Step 2: Add it to Mozilla as shown below


Step 3: Install the plugin from pop up window.

Step 4: Restart Mozilla and you are done.

How to download “Awesome screenshot” for Chrome?

Step 1: Open Chrome and search for “awesome screenshot plus for Chrome”


Step 2: Add it to chrome and you are done.



Once the tool is added to respected browsers, it’s not difficult to use but let’s see how you can get maximum advantage of the tools for different purposes.

Step 1: Once you added the tool on respected browsers, you can see the lens eye installed on the toolbar in top right of your screen.


Step 2: You can select the option of capturing visible part of the page as follows:


Step 3: You can select the option of capturing selected area:


Step 4: You can select the option of capturing the full page.



Step 5: You can select various functions from the awesome screenshot toolbar to enhance the screenshot.


Above the fold, awesome screenshot is a great tool that is quite helpful specially in reporting when you need to indicate or explain with the annotations. Though, it is a well known tool and have been in use at many places but most of the people are still unaware of the usefulness of this small tool. So, for the people who were unaware of this tool, its time to forget "print screen" and replace it with the more powerful tool "Awesome Screenshot" to capture the web pages.

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