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Screen Capture -- software recommendation ?

I was thinking about using
https://www.techsmith.com/snagit-pricing.html

Does anyone have a cheaper software
recommendation for basic screen capture
so I can add effects/etc ?
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I use SnagIt - Top of class and quite inexpensive. I highly recommend it.
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Any reason you don't just use the Included Windows tool, Snipping Tool.
If you are running windows 7 and better it comes with the snipping tool baked right inside the OS, something you can use right away until you get the above mentioned softwares with all the bells and whistles.   In your windows search enter  snipping tool.
Hi Lee and Foxluv,
finance_teacher wants to "add effects/etc", which I presume includes annotations, like text notes, circles/ellipses, squares/rectangles, etc. As I mentioned in my previous post, the Snipping Tool doesn't have annotations like that — it has only a color pen (various colors) and a yellow highlighter — which is why I mentioned using the Snipping Tool to capture the image, but then a different product, like IrfanView, to add "effects", i.e., robust annotations. Regards, Joe
I skimmed over your comments (and everyone elses) and didn't see Snipping tool at the time.

ANYTHING can edit - Photoshop, Paint.NET, Gimp, Microsoft Paint, etc.
> I skimmed over your comments (and everyone elses) and didn't see Snipping tool at the time.

Fair enough.

> ANYTHING can edit - Photoshop, Paint.NET, Gimp, Microsoft Paint, etc.

I wouldn't say ANYTHING, but there are certainly lots of (free) imaging tools with a robust set of annotations. The bulk of the screenshots I post here at EE are captured with PrintScreen or Alt-PrintScreen (sometimes the Snipping Tool) and then cropped and/or annotated with IrfanView (sometimes other imaging programs, depending on the nature of the annotations). That said, I have found that lots of users like the self-contained (capture and edit) Greenshot. Regards, Joe
Some other options are as follows:

1.  Jing from TechSmith which allows you to also make screen recording (i.e. video) from https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
2.  If you have OneNote installed then you could use Microsoft OneNote to take screen captures
3.  TinyTake from http://www.tinytake.com and video captures are limited to 5 mins
4.  Screencapturer from http://www.screencapturer.com (have not tried it but I know a few people who use it)