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How it works

From the page you are looking at to the file you send

InnoShot is four steps: capture, edit, beautify, export. This page walks through each one, and explains what happens inside your browser while it does.

The flow

One gesture starts it, nothing leaves your computer

Every step below happens inside Chrome on your own machine. There is no server in the middle.

  1. You ask

    A click on the toolbar icon, a keyboard shortcut or the right-click menu. That gesture is what lets InnoShot see this one tab.

  2. InnoShot captures

    A small helper is injected into the page for the capture, scrolls if needed, takes the screenshots, then removes itself and restores the page.

  3. You edit

    The result opens in the InnoShot editor in a new tab. Every change is a layer, autosaved in your browser.

  4. You export

    PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG or PDF to your computer, or a copy on the clipboard. The project stays in your local history.

Step 1

Capture

Open the page you want and start a capture in one of three ways: click the InnoShot icon in the toolbar and pick a mode, press one of the keyboard shortcuts, or right-click the page and use the InnoShot menu.

Each of these is a deliberate action on that tab, and that is what grants InnoShot access to it, through Chrome's activeTab permission. InnoShot cannot see any tab you have not asked it to capture.

Full-page and tall element captures are taken one screen at a time and stitched together. Chrome allows an extension two screen captures per second, so a long page takes a few seconds; you can follow the progress and press Esc to cancel. For menus and tooltips that disappear when you click, use a delayed capture of 3, 5 or 10 seconds, or any time from 1 to 60 seconds.

Capturing documentation

Suggested shortcuts Change them any time at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. On a Mac, Alt is the Option key.
ModeShortcut
Visible areaWhat is on screen now. Alt+ Shift+ V
Full pageThe whole page, scrolled and stitched. Alt+ Shift+ F
Selected areaDrag a region; it can run below the screen. On ChromeOS: Alt+Shift+Q. Alt+ Shift+ S
ElementPoint at a part of the page and press Enter. Alt+ Shift+ E

Chrome may leave a suggested shortcut unassigned if it clashes with a Chrome or system shortcut or with another extension. "Open editor", "Capture scrollable region" and "Delayed capture" have no shortcut until you assign one.

The InnoShot popup with Full Page, Visible Area, Select Area and Select Element buttons, delayed capture times, Scrollable Region, Open Editor and recent screenshots.
The InnoShot popup (15 Oct 2026), opened on one of InnoShot's own pages, where capturing is not possible, so the capture buttons are dimmed.
Steps 2 and 3

Edit, then beautify

The capture opens in the InnoShot editor in its own tab: the top bar has the name, undo and redo, zoom, copy and export; the tools are on the left; the settings for whatever you selected are on the right; and a layers panel lists everything you have added.

Editing never destroys the original. A crop can be widened again later, adjustments can be turned off, and every arrow, label, spotlight or glass panel is a layer you can move, restyle, hide or delete. One drag or slider movement is one undo step.

To make it presentable, place the capture on a background with padding, rounded corners and a shadow, wrap it in a browser or device frame, and use a spotlight or glass panel to direct attention.

Step 4

Export, copy or keep

Choose the format that suits where the image is going, or copy it straight to the clipboard. Very large captures are never cropped to fit: InnoShot offers numbered files, a scaled image or a PDF instead.

FormatGood for
PNG Interfaces, text and sharp edges; transparent backgrounds.
JPEG Smaller files where photos dominate.
WebP Small files for the web, with transparency.
PDF Long pages and documents to share or print.
SVG Documents that need annotations to stay sharp at any size.
Clipboard Pasting into chat, email or a document.
The InnoShot library of screenshots and projects with search, filters, an edited capture and the storage used on this device.
The InnoShot library (15 Oct 2026): stored only on this device. The capture shown is of a fictional demo with sample data.

Captures and projects stay in your browser's own storage, in the InnoShot library, until you delete them. You can back a project up as an .innoshot file and open it again later. Projects and history

Ready when you are

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