Windows has been dragging, for some time, a large set of inconsistencies and duplications that do not seem that they are going to disappear – far from it – with the introduction of Windows 11.
However, today Microsoft announced that at least one of those duplicities will have a solution. We refer to the coexistence of the old ‘Snipping Tool’ and the new ‘Snip & Sketch’, both aimed at facilitate the task of taking screenshots.
The person in charge of bringing us the news has been Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer and head of the company’s Windows and Devices division, who has shown on his Twitter account A look —In the form of a short video— to the new Snipping Tool and has announced its imminent availability for members of the Windows Insiders program.
What changes will we find in the new ‘Clippings’
This new Clipping constitutes, fundamentally, an update of ‘Clipping and annotation’ under the name of its predecessor. The changes come, above all, in the graphic section, since both the icon and the interface of the tool change to better integrate with the ‘look & feel’ Windows 11.
But the changes are not merely cosmetic: the video shows how the basic options are the same with which ‘Clipping and annotation’ had, but rearranging the menu to be able to set the cropping mode before starting it …
… As well as to establish a temporary postponement in the realization of the capture, an option that is difficult to access in the current version of the tool… But that it was perfectly visible in the old Clipping.
More changes: trim controls will be more accessible for the user, by appearing at the top of the screen, and the unselected part of it will be darkened to allow us to better delineate the cropping area.
And finally, we will not be obliged to save the clipping as a file so that it is not lost, because now we can also resort to copy & paste. And, even if we choose to save it, at that time we can choose between several graphic formats.
But no that we know the autosave option —So frequent in other similar tools— will remain unavailable.