Lesson: Scrolling screenshot. How to take a screenshot of a long page

It would seem that a screenshot of the screen - what could be simpler? But what if you need to save not only the area visible on the monitor, but the entire page of the site, scrolling to the very bottom? Or did you need to take a photo of a page from Word, but the page just doesn’t fit on the monitor screen? And even more so if there are several pages, for example, some important agreement. What to do then? There is no way to get by with standard ones! This is what we will talk about now.

I'll start the article with a short introduction for novice users. About Which methods are best to use for taking screenshots: online or offline?. If you have already decided on this issue, then you can immediately move on to ready-made solutions. The article describes several working options. There are very good ones, and also those that are simply not worth wasting time on. I have tested each of them several times, and for each of them a brief summary is given with a recommendation whether it is worth using it or not. Here is their list:

Offline programs:

Online services:

When you need a screenshot of an entire page, which method should you choose: online or offline?

Let me just give the pros and cons of these and other methods, and it will be easier for you to choose what to use when creating a screenshot in principle.

Online services for creating a screenshot of an entire website page

Pros:

No additional software installation required.
Services are available from any device.

Cons:

Online services may be unavailable for technical reasons. For their technical reasons, as a rule. I've encountered this several times.
Poor quality of the final work result. This is explained by the fact that most of the services are either shareware or poorly supported by their developers.
Applicable only to website pages. Screenshot multi-page document Word, for example, can no longer be done.

Offline programs for creating a screenshot of a full page

Pros:

You can take not only a screenshot of a website page, but also a snapshot of any long page or multi-page document. This applies to documents Word-similar text editors, spreadsheet type Excel, PDF-files.
Built-in editing capabilities of the resulting image.
Data security control. Confidentiality is maintained when scanning documents. You do not upload the document to a third-party service.
Supports a large number of formats for saving the resulting file.

Cons:

The need to install additional software.

Screenshot of the entire website page in the program FastStone

Program FastStone Capture(Windows only) which I will tell you about is distributed under the following conditions: You can freely use (test) the program for a 30-day continuous period after downloading (installing) it. After 30 days, you must either purchase a license to use the program on the developer’s website, or immediately delete it. Information about the terms of use is available on the website at http://www.faststone.org/order.htmand

FastStone MaxView are shareware. You may try the software free for 30 days. Once this 30-day period has expired, you must either purchase a license to use it, or uninstall it from your computer promptly.

Download the program FastStone Capture can be found here: http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturerDownload.htm

It is not for nothing that they say that it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. Look: I made a short video in which I took a screenshot of one of the pages of this site. To be completely precise, the articles. And here is a link to the picture itself, which turned out in the end: this is a sample.

So watch the video.

Screenshot of the entire website page in the program PicPick

Located at: http://ngwin.com/picpick

An excellent workhorse for taking screenshots full page site. Multifunctional screen capture, clear image editor menu, color selection, color palette, adding text, arrows, shapes, pixel ruler, protractor, shadows, frames, watermarks, mosaic, blur, brightness adjustment, zoom and much more.

Cons:

For Word, Excel, PDF program takes a screenshot of only the visible part of the screen.

Pros:

The built-in editor is quite multifunctional. It deserves a separate article, but in this one you will have to limit yourself to a few screenshots of the working menu. I would also like to note the possibility of applying watermark on the screenshot, and the process can be automated.
Automatic scanning of a full website page.
Several formats are available for saving a screenshot: PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PDF. True, the program, although it saves files in PDF format, does not know how to open them in it. So, if you use it as an editor, then for PDF images You will first need to convert them to JPEG.

Result:

I recommend it.

As a small presentation, I offer in general view evaluate the program's operating menu. Of course, many of the buttons on this menu hide submenu lists. To tell in detail, you will have to write a real operating manual. But this is a topic for another article.

Here is another interesting option that can be useful when scanning a website page or document containing small fragments. This is a “magnifying glass” in the shape of an ellipse, a circle, with the help of which small details can easily be made large right on the screenshot.

Service S-shot.ru

Located at: https://www.s-shot.ru/

Don't forget to check the "full size" checkbox. When it is checked, scanning is done from the entire page; when unchecked, only from the part that is visible on the monitor. The service interface looks like this:

Cons:

Quantitative restrictions free use. Up to 100 pictures per day and up to 1000 per month (from one IP address).

Pros:

Result:

Quite a working option.

Online service Snapito

Located at: https://snapito.com/

A good solution when you need to quickly make a copy of a website page and save it in JPEG format. The service also claims to convert to PDF, but several attempts I made to save the image in this format were unsuccessful. I had to do some additional image processing. Screenshot Word document or Excel also cannot be made into this service “without intermediaries”. That is, in principle, this is possible if you place a Word file on the Internet, upload its contents to Google Docs, configure access rights to the resulting page (I did full access), and then paste the link to this page into the appropriate input field on the Snapito.com website. But why such difficulties when the offline program described above can do everything easily and simply.

Cons:

Takes a screenshot in JPEG format only.

Pros:

High-quality work without scanning failures.
Adjusting the size of the future screenshot before scanning.

Result:

Quite a working option.

Screenshotmachine service

Located at: https://www.screenshotmachine.com/index.php

Despite the promised “full length screenshot”, no full length could be achieved from this service. Registration on the site also did not lead to anything.

Cons:

Takes a screenshot of only the visible part of the screen! Doesn't make a copy of the entire page. And this is despite the declared functionality and the presence of a paid version! This error in work recorded on May 28, 2018. Perhaps the situation will change, but today I’m giving it a minus.
Supports PNG format only.

Pros:

Simulates the appearance of a website page on a tablet and mobile. But, taking into account the fact that most modern sites have mobile version and they look completely different in it than on the desktop, plus this one is very dubious.

Result:

I don't recommend it. The service in spirit is quite consistent with that slob-robot who, with a stupid look, scattered all the copies on the main page of the site.

IMGonline service

Located at: www.imgonline.com.ua

Cons:

Does not scan all images from a website page. Despite the fact that there is a “disable pictures” option in the settings, it simply does not work. Whether it is turned on or not - in best case scenario, there will be one or two pictures on the copy of the page, instead of the remaining images there will be just a space.

Pros:

Takes a screenshot in PNG formats, JPEG.
It is possible to manipulate (I can't call it settings) the size of the future screenshot before scanning.

Result:

I don't recommend it.

Screenpage service

Located at: http://screenpage.ru/

Cons:

Takes a screenshot in PNG format only.
Does not scan all images from a website page. In the best case, there will be one or two pictures on the copy of the page, instead of the rest of the images there will be just a space. This error is systematic.

Pros:

Result:

I don't recommend it.

Conclusion

As I promised at the very beginning, I provided you with very good, working solutions: the program FastStone Capture program PicPick, services S-shot And Snapito. I hope that I helped you understand the issue and choose a tool to your liking.

Of course, within the scope of this article it is impossible to physically talk about all the methods and tools that allow you to take screenshots. I tried to talk about those that are easy and convenient to use, and those that are of little use to be considered good tool. For what? First of all, so that you do not waste time searching. Perhaps it would have been worth including the Screenpresso program in the review. But... The fact is that the program has a demon paid version and paid. It wouldn't be so bad if it were two different programs. In fact, all this is one program, only part of the functionality in it is available exclusively for money. You start clicking on the buttons, everything you need seems to work, and at the very end, instead of the saved result, you receive information that this particular action is only possible in the paid version. Perhaps the program is not bad, but I did not like the approach to the user. So I didn't test it. Here is the link to the site if anyone is interested: https://www.screenpresso.com/

What screenshotters do you use? Why are they interesting, what features do they have?

Today I invite you to consider a very interesting problem - how to withdraw Android screen long screenshot. This refers to taking a screenshot while scrolling the screen. The task is not trivial and is especially typical for capturing web pages that scroll across multiple screens.

It is impossible to take such a screenshot using the built-in Android tools, so in this article I suggest using two Android applications, which will greatly facilitate this task.

Taking screenshots from your smartphone screen is a very useful and popular feature. Many users use it for different purposes. But, despite the obvious usefulness of the built-in function, it has a big drawback - only those elements of the screen image that are visible at the time of its creation can be included in one screenshot. If you do it the old-fashioned way, images stretched across several screens can be divided into several successive screenshots taken while scrolling the footcloth.

Relatively recently, to solve such a problem Xiaomi company presented in its MIUI version 8 shell new feature- “long screenshot” (Long Screenshot). The long-awaited function of creating a screenshot for a long web page has pleased the owners of smartphones of the same name. It is easy to use and resembles the implementation of the image capture function in Panasonic devices. But, after the presentation of the technology for creating screenshots with scrolling the screen, not every Android device was able to implement it in practice. To make the feature available, you will have to use third-party tools and perform several steps on your smartphone.

Warning: In order to activate the long screenshot function on a smartphone without MIUI shell 8 you will have to download and install a third party app from the store Google Play. Therefore, make sure in advance that your device is connected to the Internet and that you have free space on your device.

Creating a long screenshot with scrolling the screen in the LongShot application

The LongShot app can be found and downloaded freely on the Google Play Store. It was specially designed to take long screenshots on Android. The process of taking a screenshot in LongShot is quite simple if you select the desired mode.

Capture screenshot mode

Open LongShot and select the Capture screenshot option.
Once launched, the application will ask you for permission to start working.
Next, LongShot will prompt you to select an application in which you will take a long screenshot.
Open the right application and click Start. Scroll through the application pages across the screen as needed. To finish taking screenshots, click Done.
In this mode, you will receive not one long screenshot, but a series of screenshots cut from a “footcloth” stretched across the screen. You still have to work with them.
A list of screenshots with sketches will open in front of you. Remove unnecessary screenshots. To check, you can view the sketch in full format by clicking on it and selecting context menu“View in full screen” item. Then click on the thumbnail again and select "Delete" if you want to delete it.
If you want to add something else to a long screenshot, click on the plus sign located in the circle and select an additional image.
You can compose the future long screenshot the way you want - vertically or horizontally, in automatic or manual mode, with and without a status bar. To do this, you can click the "Configure" button in the lower left corner of the application and select the necessary options.
After setting the configuration options, click the "Join" button in the lower right corner of the application.
After some time spent processing and stitching individual images into a long screenshot, you will be taken to the Stitch menu.
Here you will see a project for the future long screenshot, which can be further customized. If you are happy with everything, just click the Save button in the upper right corner.
If something is wrong in the project, click one of the Adjust buttons, which is located next to each component and use the options for cropping each frame. For fine and coarse cropping, you can use the "1px" or "10px" up or down buttons. After trimming, click the Done button and, if you are now happy with everything, click Save.

Important note: screenshot files are automatically saved to the /storage/emulated/0/longshot directory.

At first glance, taking a long screenshot is not easy, but believe me, the developers have made the process intuitive and understandable. And they have taken care of those who want to take a long screenshot of a multi-screen web page in just a couple of clicks. A special mode “Capture web page” has been created for this purpose.

In the main menu of the application, click the “Capture web page” button. The built-in LongShot browser will open with an address bar in which you need to enter the URL of the site whose page you want to “screen”. The site address can be typed or pasted after copying it in another application. To open the page, click the checkmark.
Next, scroll the site page to the location you need, where the screenshot should start and click the “Set start position” button. Blue horizontal line will indicate the location from which the screenshot will be captured.
Next, scroll down the site page to the fragment where you need to complete the long screenshot. Follow the horizontal pink line.
Click the "End here and capture" button. At this moment, a full-fledged long screenshot will be created with scrolling of the web page.

Key features of the program:

Automatically stitches several screenshots into one, regardless of which direction the image was scrolled - horizontally or vertically;
performs auto-capture of screenshots while scrolling;
“floating” image capture buttons make it easier to create a series of screenshots;
manual image stitching mode for fine-tuning a long screenshot;
quickly capture a long web page, just specify the beginning and end and the screenshot is ready;
no watermarks, all functions are free, ads can be hidden.

Long screenshot of a web page on Android in the Scroll Capture app

This application is perfect for taking a long screenshot from a web page that spans multiple screens. Let me note right away that the application is very simple, it couldn’t be simpler.

Find and install the Scroll Capture app in the Google Play Store.
Launch the application.
Enter in address bar built-in browser address of a site with a long web page of which you want to take a screenshot.
If you previously copied the site address, the application will automatically pick it up and offer to open it in your browser. I don’t recommend refusing, this will further speed up the process of creating a long screenshot.
After opening the page, click on the icon at the bottom of the screen in the form of camera shutter blades. The desktop image will immediately be filled with a purple tint and will become inaccessible to your devices. A purple pointer in the form of a paint roller with a handle will move chaotically in the center. It’s strange why the developer chose this particular symbol... The process of scanning an image and creating a long screenshot is displayed so simply. It will only take a few moments.
Without any questions or the need to scroll the page, the long screenshot will be automatically saved to the program directory. It is created by default here: -->Pictures>Scroll Capture.

Of course, in addition to the two applications described above, there are dozens of others. Today they can make it easier for you to take a long screenshot on any Android device. But in my experience, LongShot and Scroll Capture are among the best, especially for taking a screenshot of a long web page that spans multiple screens.

How to take a screenshot on Huawei? On this page you will find several ways to save a screenshot on Huawei and other Android tablets and smartphones. You can not only screenshot the screen, but also take a long screenshot while scrolling the screen, which is sometimes simply necessary when creating a screenshot of Internet pages, chats or other information that takes up more than one screen.

1) The first method allows you to quickly take a screenshot on Huawei and most other Android devices. To take a screenshot of the entire screen, you need to press and hold the "Power" button and the "Volume Down" button for several seconds. If the save is successful, you will see a notification on the screen and hear a click as when taking photos. You can see the screenshot in the gallery.

2) On some smartphones and tablets, you can press and hold the "Power/On" button until a menu appears where in the list we select "Screenshot" opposite which there will be an icon with scissors. This method may not work on some devices.

3) Open the notification panel by pulling top part screen down and tap this icon, which allows you to take a screenshot of the entire screen.

4) Not some Huawei smartphones and tablets can take a screenshot using a knuckle. To take a photo of the entire screen, you need to double-tap the screen with your knuckles, as shown in the picture below.

5) It is possible to take a screenshot of part of the screen. You need to touch the screen with your knuckle and, without letting go, circle the required part. What is inside the circled line is preserved. See below picture. You can select one of the proposed forms at the top of the screen that you would like the screen to be saved. To save, click on this icon.

6) Let's see how to take long screenshots on Huawei, there are 2 ways using icon or knuckle.
Open the notification panel by pulling the screen from top to bottom and click on this icon and we get it regular screenshot. Next, we need to click on this icon, after which the screen will begin to scroll automatically as the screenshot is taken. (Attention! After taking a screenshot, you must click on the icon no later than 3 seconds).

To save a long screenshot from the Huawei screen with your knuckle, you need to touch the screen with your knuckle and, without letting go, draw the letter “S” and remove your finger. After this, you will see the screen begin to scroll automatically. When you see that this part of the screenshot is enough for you, you can stop the scrolling by touching the screen.

After taking a screenshot, you can immediately edit the screenshot; to do this, click on this icon and then you can save it. See the screenshot in the gallery, you can transfer or send a screenshot as follows: an ordinary photograph or a picture.

Don't forget to leave a review and indicate the model of your device and the method that helped you screenshot the screen. Perhaps the information you left will be useful for many users of Huawei and other Android devices.

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One of the most useful functions smartphones from Samsung and Huawei can actually be on any Android phone. IN in this case We're talking about "Scroll capture", which gives you the ability to take longer screenshots while scrolling across the entire page.

There are many apps that allow you to manually merge screenshots to make them into one file, but this is tedious. In our article today, you will learn about how to get a scrolling screenshot on your Android device without much hassle.

Introduced to Samsung users in Note models 5 and greatly improved for the Galaxy S7, is a cool feature called “Capture more.” It allows you to take one long screenshot of a page, from the top and scroll to the bottom, converting it into one file. This feature was again used in the Galaxy S8 under the new name "Scroll capture" and, of course, can be enjoyed in the new Galaxy flagship S9. To use this feature, follow these steps:

First, activate the "Smart capture" option in the advanced settings menu.
Go to the screen you want to take a screenshot of.
Take a screenshot as usual.
After that, click on the “Scroll capture” icon (which was previously called “Capture more”) in the list of options that will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Keep clicking on "Scroll capture" to continue moving down the page until you're done.

On Huawei smartphones

Since EMUI 5.0, Huawei devices The Mate 9 and Mate 10 let you take scrolling screenshots. Below is the step by step process:

Alas, not all people can afford Galaxy smartphone or Huawei Mate. Fortunately, there is third party application called Stitch & Share to help those who don't have Galaxy phones get out of their tight spots.

You can screenshot an entire website, news article, or app using Stitch & Share (which you can download from Play Store). Once you download it and give it the necessary permissions, just take the first screenshot as usual. Scroll down so that only a small portion of what was visible in the first screenshot is still visible on your screen, and then take the next screenshot.

Repeat this step until you have taken pictures of everything you want. Then swipe down to open your phone's notification panel and tap the Stitch & Share notification to open the app. Or you can open the Stitch & Share app and select the screenshots you want to automatically stitch into one file. To save a long screenshot, click on the green arrow icon.

With a little setup, you can start taking screenshots almost instantly.

To see an example of what Stitch & Share is capable of, take a look at the very long, maximum resolution screenshot below. There are a few downsides to the app, namely that the results aren't always perfect and a small watermark will appear at the bottom right unless you upgrade to the paid version. However, overall, this is a very convenient and useful application.

You can see that the result wasn't perfect for the text under the header photo, but the main text turned out great.

How to take a screenshot of an entire web page, without using programs and browser extensions to take screenshots (screenshots)? There are specialized online services, with which you can take a screenshot of an entire web page, and not just the visible part of the site on the monitor screen.

Using an online service, you can take a screenshot of a complete web page without installing additional software on your computer: specialized programs or browser extensions. The online service generates a screenshot of a long page and creates a miniature of the site, which can be saved to your computer.

The operating principle of the online service for creating a snapshot of a website page is as follows: you need to copy the link from the website page: from home page or any other page on the site, configure the settings, and then start processing the web page. After conversion, the user will receive a link to the image on the server, which will be saved for some time, and the ability to save a snapshot of the site page to his computer in a supported format.

Keep in mind that not all screenshot programs and extensions have functionality to create a snapshot of the entire site page, and not just the visible part of the site on the monitor screen.

A screenshot of a web page is an exact snapshot of the entire site; it has several names mentioned on the Internet: webshot, thumbnail, website thumbnail.

In this article you will find 6 online services, the work of which I checked: Snapito, Web Capture, IMGonline, S-shot.ru, Screenshot machine, ScreenPage.ru. Unfortunately, some other services mentioned on the Internet have not been verified, so I do not mention them in this article.

You will also learn how to screenshot a long page in a browser Mozilla Firefox without installing any add-ons.

You can take a screenshot of the entire website page online on the service.

Log in to the service, insert a link to the site page in the field. First, click on the gear button (settings), select settings to take a website screenshot. Use the "Snap" button to save a snapshot of a web page, or send a screenshot to Pinterest, you can convert the image to PDF format, get a link to the image of the site page.

After you start creating a snapshot of the entire site page, you will receive a link to the site screenshot, which you can copy (the snapshot will be stored on the service for up to 30 days), the screenshot can be edited in the service editor, or saved original photo to your computer in JPG format.

The web-capture.net service has Russian language support. The service provides the generation of full-size screenshots, converting a snapshot of a website web page into different formats files.

First enter in the appropriate field Page URL, for which you want to generate a screenshot, then select the file format you need.

The web-capture service supports saving screenshots in the following formats:

JPEG, PDF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, PS, SVG

After taking a screenshot of the page, you can view the screenshot in full size, download the screenshot in the selected format, or download it as a ZIP archive.

To take full screenshots of web pages directly on site pages, you can install a bookmarklet on your browser's bookmarks bar. After clicking on the bookmarklet, the web-capture net service page will open, where you can take a screenshot of the entire site online.

The IMGonline.com.ua service is designed for processing JPEG photos online. In addition to many useful functions, the site has a service for creating images online from a web page.

Creating a screenshot of a website page entirely online takes place in several stages:

Entering the site URL.
Options for creating a screenshot (the entire height of the site page, or only visible part, disabling images and javascript if necessary).
Resize the resulting screenshot (if necessary).
Select file format: PNG, Standard JPEG, Progressive JPEG, and JPEG file quality.
Start processing.

After processing is complete, open the created screenshot in your browser, or download it to your computer.

The service generates screenshots of online sites. First you need to enter the site address, then select the size: width and height, or full-size version of the web page, then select the format: JPEG or PNG, and scaling.

After processing, you will see a screenshot of the site. Next, you can click on the screenshot to save the image to your computer, or copy the link to the site image.

On free version Screenshotmachine.com service allows you to take a screenshot of a complete web page. Paste the link into the “Enter web page URL” field and then click on the “start capture” button.

After creating a complete snapshot of the site, click on the “Download” button. A screenshot of the web page will open in a new browser tab, transfer it to your computer.

Service for creating screenshots of websites in Russian. The service allows you to take a snapshot of the site’s entire web page online.

After taking a screenshot, you can view the screenshot or save it to your computer. To address email You will receive a link to the screenshot, which will be stored on the server for a week.

How to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mozilla Firefox

IN Mozilla browser Firefox has the ability to save a full screenshot of the site, with scrolling, using a standard tool, without installing extensions.

Press the keyboard keys simultaneously: “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “I”. This will open the development toolbar. On the right side of the panel, click on the “Tool Settings” button (gear). In the “Available tool buttons” section, activate the “Take a screenshot of the entire page” option.

Next, go to the site page from which you need to take a screenshot, press the “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “I” buttons. On the right side of the development toolbar, you will see a button “Take a screenshot of the entire page” (camera). Click the button and a snapshot of the full web page will be saved in your browser's downloads folder.

Conclusions of the article

Using the services: Snapito, Web Capture, IMGonline, S-shot.ru, Screenshot machine, ScreenPage.ru, you can take a screenshot of a web page, saving the entire web page. A link to a screenshot of the site page will be saved on the service for some time; the screenshot can be saved to your computer in a supported format (mainly supported formats: JPEG or PNG). I liked the online services most: Web Capture, Snapito, IMGonline, S-shot.ru.

You can take a screenshot of the entire web page regular means in the Mozilla Firefox browser.