Features

What the workflow is made of

Lightshot's feature set is small, but each piece covers one concrete step — from selecting an area to sending off a finished image.

selection

An area in two moves

The shortcut brings up a selection crosshair — the area can be moved and resized before the mouse button is released.

markup

An editing bar right on the capture

Lines, arrows, rectangles, text, and a pencil tool — the toolbar appears the moment an area is selected, no separate window needed.

search

Reverse image search

A dedicated button sends the selected fragment to a visual search — handy for finding the source of an image or a similar product.

storage

Three ways to keep the result

Copy to the clipboard, save a file to disk, or upload to the prnt.sc server and get a short link to pass along.

printing

Print a capture directly

A finished image can be sent straight to a printer without opening a separate image viewer.

shortcuts

Customizable hotkey

The launch key can be changed in settings if the default shortcut clashes with another app.

What's missing

Worth knowing up front, so you're not hunting through settings for a function that isn't there.

If any of that matters for your workflow, the alternatives page lists tools built to cover it.