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How to take and

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Capture
Updated Nov 27, 2023

You can use Dropbox Capture to take

screenshots, then mark them up and share
them.

How to save
screenshots with
Dropbox Capture
When you install the Dropbox Capture app,
you’ll be prompted to Automatically save OS
screenshots to Dropbox Capture. This
automatically saves any screenshots you take
on your computer to Dropbox Capture.

You can turn this feature on or off at anytime.

To do so:

1. Open the Dropbox Capture desktop app.

2. Click “⁝” (vertical ellipsis) in the upper right.

3. Click Preferences.

4. Toggle Automatically save OS

screenshots.

How to take a
screenshot
If you choose to Automatically save OS
screenshots, any screenshots you take with
your computer’s built-in functionality will save
to Dropbox Capture. If you don’t choose this
option, you can take screenshots using the
Dropbox Capture app.

To take a screenshot using Dropbox Capture:

1. Open the Dropbox Capture desktop app.

2. Click Screenshot.

3. Choose which part of your screen you’d like

to capture:

Click once to screenshot of your entire

screen.

Click and drag to screenshot a desired

area of your screen.

Press the spacebar to screenshot a

specific image.

A copy of your image will be copied to the

clipboard and be saved to the “Capture” folder
of your Dropbox account.

To copy a link to the screenshot:

1. Open the Dropbox Capture desktop app.

2. Click “⁝” (vertical ellipsis) in the top-right

corner.

3. Click Preferences.

4. Set When screenshot is ready to Copy

Link.

Immediately after taking a screenshot, you’ll

see a notification appear in the bottom-right
corner of your screen. From this notification,
you can:

Preview

Markup

Delete

From the markup window, you can:

Add text

Draw

Add lines and shapes

Crop

Blur

Highlight

Rename

Add Emoji images

When you save the marked up image,

depending on your When screenshot is
ready setting, it will copy its link or image to
your clipboard and replace the original
screenshot in the “Capture” folder of your
Dropbox account.

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