A long screenshot, that is, a scrolling screenshot, refers to a page area. The current screen size cannot accommodate the content to be captured. You need to scroll the page area to capture different content and splicing it together to obtain the complete page content, for example, a browsing web page or a chat.
At present, it is learned that on the Mac platform, the tools supporting long screenshots appear in chronological order: Xnip, Picsee and iShot. The early Snip also has this feature, but with the iteration of the version, the tools downloaded and installed from the Store no longer have this function. As for taking long screenshots of a web page through a browser plug-in, this is not a discussion.
Discuss long shots as to why, because there is no system in level, on the basis of API support, by intercepting multiple pictures, by way of joining together for long shots is realized, there is always a certain degree of flaws, I think, this is also why Snipaste hesitated to launch long screenshot function, and various long screenshot software in the image matching algorithm, System performance balance and implementation are different, and these differences often bring different use experience. Therefore, it is of certain significance to compare the perfection of long screenshots in various environments. Through comparison, problems can be found to improve user experience.
These three software can be downloaded and used through the App Store. The latest version is used for comparison and evaluation respectively: Picsee is version 1.2.3, iShot is version 1.7.7 and Xnip is version 2.2.0.
Long screenshot operation logic
For a scrollable page, select a certain area in the screenshot box and click the long Screenshot tool to scroll vertically in the selected area of the scrolling page. A long screenshot will appear next to the selected area of the screenshot box. After scrolling the content to be captured, click Save. The operations of Xnip, Picsee, and iShot are basically the same.
Long screenshot comparison
Whether Picsee, Xnip, iShot, for the general requirements of long screenshots, basically can be completed. However, in the process of use, in some cases, we often encounter problems such as too fast scrolling and failure to splice scrolling screenshots, which reduce the user efficiency, affect the user experience, and determine the quality of a tool software. The following is a comparison from the aspects of scrolling area box selection, scrolling direction offset, scrolling area content, operation convenience and so on.
| Long screenshot comparison items | Picsee | Xnip | iShot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scroll the area box to select adaptability | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ |
| Rolling direction fault tolerance | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ |
| Impure color background support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Dynamic content block adaptation | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ |
| Solid color content block adaptability | ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ |
| Dynamically adjust the scrolling direction | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Dynamically adjust the scroll area | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Scrollability to splice again | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rolling speed adaptability | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ | ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ ⭐ ️ |
| Window click scrolling support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Full page screenshot of the browser plug-in | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Horizontal scrolling screenshot | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Panoramic scrolling screenshot | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Scroll the area box to select
For intercepting the content box, are generally in the rolling area, but in the daily work, frequent fast frame selection, for rolling area box to choose is often not very accurate, are beyond the scope of the scroll area at this time, if the screenshot software, long for scrolling area has a certain fault tolerance, for users, is the ability to bring certain operating convenience, Rather than precisely limited in the scrolling area, once exceeded, can not achieve splicing, need to re-box selected area. Picsee is better than iShot, and iShot is better than Xnip. Xnip has the strictest requirements on selected areas.
Roll direction deviation
In the process of browsing enlarged pictures and scrolling and capturing long pictures, it is difficult to achieve complete vertical scrolling. Therefore, long screenshot software needs to have certain fault tolerance for subtle horizontal offset, otherwise, it will not be able to achieve picture stitching. The test results show that Picsee is better than iShot, and iShot is better than Xnip. Xnip has poor performance and basically cannot realize the splicing of long graphs. The official website also introduces the use of arrow keys on the keyboard to control vertical scrolling to avoid horizontal dislocation. Picsee and iShot both have a certain degree of fault tolerance, among which Picsee is the best and can easily achieve the splicing of long screenshots. Here we need to pay attention to, for the need to perfect the long screenshot splicing, or need to avoid horizontal movement, because, even if the software splicing, it is fault-tolerant dislocation splicing, which is not related to the general use, because the naked eye can not be detected.
Scroll area content
Long screenshot software, according to the current way of implementation, is essentially the splicing of picture content, therefore, in the process of use, there will be a variety of regional content, the universality of various regional content, is an important indicator to examine the merits of long screenshot.
Impure color background
Chat Windows often have an impure color background, such as wechat and Telegram, etc. Test results only Picsee supports long screenshots with impure color background, iShot and Xnip do not support.
Dynamic content block
In the content area of long screenshots, there are often dynamic changes of content, such as videos and web dynamic effects, which also pose challenges to image stitching. The test results show that Picsee is better than iShot, and iShot is better than Xnip. https://giphy.com/trending-gifs, there needs to be clear, although Picsee to be able to, but sometimes is misplaced patchwork.
Solid color area block
What about long screenshots with large areas of solid color and no obvious feature points? The test results show that Xnip is better than iShot and iShot is better than Picsee, but both are not well supported. Picsee performs the worst, indicating that the selected area is not legitimate or the stitching fails. When iShot encounters a large area with solid color, the stitching is terminated. Xnip can skip the area with solid color and perform subsequent stitching.
Convenience of operation
For a toolline, we always want it to significantly improve our productivity, even if it shortens 0.1 seconds per operation. But when it is not convenient and fast, it loses its core value to a certain extent.
Rolling direction adjustment
IShot and Xnip support only scroll down joining together long shots, Picsee support upper and lower two direction rolling joining together long shots, and in the process of stitching, can adjust the direction, after screenshots box to choose an area, for example, began to scroll down the joining together long shots, rolling process, realize the initial box selected content area of the above areas need to joining together, at this time, Can scroll up directly for splicing. This can bring great convenience. Every time you start to scroll long screenshots, the operation of preparing the screenshot area is omitted. When iShot and Xnip take long screenshots, you need to adjust the long screenshot area in advance and scroll to the expected initial area of the screenshot, while Picsee can basically scroll long screenshots without thinking.
Roll area adjustment
IShot and Xnip do not support vertical adjustment of the selected area after scrolling, while Picsee supports re-adjustment of the selected area during splicing, which is another convenient feature. Because daily screenshots selection box, often not to vote in the scroll box, when I was fast scrolling stitching finished, only to find that can’t scroll down, leading to the bottom of the box is not selected in areas not joining together, need adjustment box selection again long screenshots, whereas Picsee without this trouble, adjust the area directly, can joining together, one time, It’s very convenient.
Rolling speed adaptability and re-stitching
In the process of rolling splicing of long screenshots, when the rolling speed is too fast, the screenshot software often prompts the need to slow down the rolling speed and return to the unspliced area for another splicing attempt. The test results show that Xnip, iShot, and Picsee all have the ability of restitching. However, IN terms of adaptability of rolling speed, iShot performs best, Xnip takes second place, and Picsee has the highest requirement for rolling speed.
Window selection scroll
Picsee supports clicking the whole window to scroll and splicing long screenshots. Compared with long screenshots, the window is covered. Considering that the M1 machine can run iOS applications directly, this feature is very interesting. Xnip and iShot, however, do not have this feature, and both require careful and complete box selection of the entire window’s scrolling screenshot area. Picsee found a problem during the testing process, click on some Windows can not scroll screenshots, I don’t know why.
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Browser plug-in
Picsee provides a browser extension to support full page length screenshots on web pages. The Chrome plugin is not available in the Google Plugin store, but it can be downloaded and installed from the Picsee website.
Horizontal long screenshot
Picsee supports long screenshots that scroll horizontally.
Panoramic shots
Picsee supports panoramic 360 Mosaic images.
instructions
This is actually an Amway article of Picsee, and I am the author of Picsee. I hope to evaluate the function of long screenshots of various software on Mac platform from an objective perspective. On the one hand, it can help users understand the features of long screenshots of Picsee and improve the efficiency of long screenshots in daily use. Understand the deficiencies of Picsee and make relevant improvements to improve user satisfaction.
Currently, Picsee and iShot long screenshots can be used for free. Xnip long screenshots have watermarks for free. You need to pay to upgrade the professional version to remove watermarks. Three software are domestic developers, the contrast, in the process of the measurement I’d regret Xnip performance, because Xnip out early, this feature is also a main long capture screenshot software, these problems, the author explained in website is related to, obviously, he is already aware of, but has not been improved iterative.
Do not like spray, after all, involved in which, it is difficult to stand in an objective point of view to evaluate the long screenshots of these three software functions and pros and cons, here to encourage the majority of users to carry out the relevant evaluation.