Choose a Capture Mode

You pick a mode in the capture window before you click Start. It applies to every screenshot in that session, and you can start a new session with a different one.

• Active Window: Captures whichever window you are working in, and follows you when you switch apps or monitors. Nothing else on your desktop gets in.
• Full Screen: Captures the entire screen, including anything else you have open.
• Selected Region: Captures only an area you draw, on the monitor where you started. The area stays put for the whole session.

Active Window, unless you have a reason. It is the only mode that follows you when you move between apps mid-process.

Reasons to pick something else:

• The story is in two windows at once: A dialog on top of the window it belongs to, or a terminal beside a browser. Active Window will only give you the front one, so use Full Screen.
• You want a fixed slice of the screen: Just the sidebar, or just the form, in every step. Selected Region crops once instead of forty times.
• The app is fullscreen anyway: Either works. Active Window still saves you the menu bar.

Pick Selected Region and click Start. The screen dims and you drag a rectangle over the part you want. Folge shows its size while you drag, and you can nudge the edges from the handles before you begin.

Clicks outside the region do not capture, which lets you use the rest of your screen without adding steps you will have to delete. If you need the opposite, turn on Capture outside clicks in Settings.

The mode is fixed for the session, so if you picked wrong, click Finish, delete the steps you do not want, and capture again into the same guide. New steps go on the end and you can drag them into place.