If you need a screenshot of a website and you just use PrtScrn Capture or even the snipping tool you can only capture whats on your screen at that time (hence the name, screenshot) and but you may need more or even the whole page. Scrolling isn’t an option and minimizing the screen and making the image larger can ruin the image.
There is a fantastic Chrome extension called Awesome Screenshot:Capture and Annotate by Diigo which I wanted to share with you – Diigo also have another extension called Search all – which enables you to search through all search engines, but that’s another story.
If you use Google Chrome, which I think most of us do now, or if you don’t, why not? – ( I am a Google fan, what can I say) then you may (like I did) have over looked this extension or you may not even know how to find extensions or apps for chrome.
Edit – Screen Grab for Firefox
On checking 21% of my views are by Firefox users and a helpful gentleman Len @PetersNewJobs has said that a similar great product for Mozilla Firefox is Screen Grab.
How to add the Whole Page Screenshot to Google Chrome
- Go to The Chrome Webstore
- Type in search – Whole page Screen Shot
- Click Extensions
- There are many here that capture screen shots but the one you want is
- Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate.
- Click Add to Chrome then click add.
- Then it should appear in your task bar on the right hand side.
How to get a whole page screenshot.
To get the screenshot you require, click on the extensions icon.
You will see three options
How to remove extensions from Google Chrome.
