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Yes, we reviewed it and it gets close. Thanks for the suggestion!But apparently it doesn't get triggered by the PrtScrn key, and there were some rather odd behaviour of the editing tools (the selection rectangle makes a copy of the bitmap which you can move around in a layer over the original bitmap but underneath the annotations... that was rather confusing). Anyway, the prtScrn key is essential.

This is excellent news, thank you very much! I agree with you. Seeing how we're still using Win2000 as the standard platform today, anything newer than XP is completely out of the question... unfortunately. But at home I'm a longtime XP user, so it'll be good to finally upgrade at work, too. Thank you for your excellent answers!

This is excellent news, thank you very much! I agree with you. Seeing how we're still using Win2000 as the standard platform today, anything newer than XP is completely out of the question... unfortunately. But at home I'm a longtime XP user, so it'll be good to finally upgrade at work, too. Thank you for your excellent answers!

Thank you for the fast response. I'm quite sure that Paint.NET has no limitations and that it can do all we need. But I am concerned that it is too much; too many features and possibilities for our limited requirements. I have no experience with Paint.NET so I am asking you. I have some experience with GIMP and found that GIMP is way too complicated for this purpose. I'd like to hear comments from fellow forum members, whether or not you think that our normal office staff would be overwhelmed by Paint.NET just to annotate a screenshot.

Thank you for the fast response. I'm quite sure that Paint.NET has no limitations and that it can do all we need. But I am concerned that it is too much; too many features and possibilities for our limited requirements. I have no experience with Paint.NET so I am asking you. I have some experience with GIMP and found that GIMP is way too complicated for this purpose. I'd like to hear comments from fellow forum members, whether or not you think that our normal office staff would be overwhelmed by Paint.NET just to annotate a screenshot.

Hello all! At my place of work, we need the capability to take application screenshots and annotate them with frames, arrows, and texts. We don't need anything fancy, it's not for publication but for bug tracking. We wanted to get something like SnagIt or FastStone Capture, but this was denied based on cost ($14 per seat...). I've already tested a number of freeware capture tools but they don't annotate well enough. 1) Can Paint.NET be used as a sensible replacement? I'm afraid that it's total overkill... (I can't test this because it doesn't run on Win2000, but we are going to upgrade to WinXP soonish - yes we're at the bleeding edge of technology...) 2) How would this work -- I do a normal PrtScrn of the entire screen and paste it into Paint.NET where I crop the relevant part and add frames,arrows,texts as vector items -- right? I'm concerned that the learning curve for normal staff is much too steep. All we need is a way to annotate screenshots, but Paint.NET can do so much more. What are your thoughts? Best regards from Austria - TorbenGB

Hello all! At my place of work, we need the capability to take application screenshots and annotate them with frames, arrows, and texts. We don't need anything fancy, it's not for publication but for bug tracking. We wanted to get something like SnagIt or FastStone Capture, but this was denied based on cost ($14 per seat...). I've already tested a number of freeware capture tools but they don't annotate well enough. 1) Can Paint.NET be used as a sensible replacement? I'm afraid that it's total overkill... (I can't test this because it doesn't run on Win2000, but we are going to upgrade to WinXP soonish - yes we're at the bleeding edge of technology...) 2) How would this work -- I do a normal PrtScrn of the entire screen and paste it into Paint.NET where I crop the relevant part and add frames,arrows,texts as vector items -- right? I'm concerned that the learning curve for normal staff is much too steep. All we need is a way to annotate screenshots, but Paint.NET can do so much more. What are your thoughts? Best regards from Austria - TorbenGB