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Selected area capture

Drag out exactly the region you need, fine-tune it with keyboard nudges and aspect-ratio presets, and select areas that are taller than your screen.

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A selected area capture saves just the rectangle you choose, so you can share one part of a page without cropping afterwards. The selection is not limited to what is on screen: it can extend past the bottom of the window and still be captured in one piece.

Select and capture an area

  1. Click the InnoShot icon and choose the selected area action, press Alt+Shift+S (Option+Shift+S on macOS, Alt+Shift+Q on ChromeOS), or use the right-click menu.
  2. Drag across the page to draw a selection. A readout shows its size as you drag.
  3. Adjust it if needed: drag its edges or corners to resize it, or drag inside it to move it.
  4. Press Enter to capture the selection, or Esc to cancel.

The editor opens in a new tab with the selected area.

Keyboard controls

Key What it does
Arrow keys Nudge the selection by 1 pixel
Shift + arrow keys Nudge the selection by 10 pixels
Enter Capture the selection
Esc Cancel

Nudging with the keyboard is the easiest way to line a selection up exactly with the edge of a panel or button. Watch the size readout as you go.

Aspect ratio lock and presets

Lock the aspect ratio to keep the selection's proportions while you resize it. You can also start from one of the aspect-ratio presets, which is useful when the image has to fit a fixed shape, such as a slide, a thumbnail or a social post.

Selections taller than the screen

You can select more than fits in the window. As you drag, resize or move the selection past the edge of the window, the page scrolls so you can keep going. When you confirm, InnoShot captures the whole region by scrolling and stitching, the same way as a full page capture.

Because Chrome allows an extension at most two screen captures per second, a tall selection takes a moment longer: roughly half a second for each screen it covers.

Another way: capture, then crop

If you find dragging over a long page awkward, capture the full page instead and crop it in the editor. Cropping is non-destructive, so you can widen the crop again later if you cut off too much.

Good to know

  • The image is captured at your display's native resolution, so on a high-density display it can have more pixels than the size the page uses for layout.
  • Hover menus and tooltips usually close when you start dragging. For those, use delayed capture.
  • Selected area capture is not available on pages Chrome reserves for itself, such as chrome:// pages and the Chrome Web Store.

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