In order to use this tool, all you have to do is drag the CRX file to the 'Extensions' tab in Chrome.

Lightshot is a free screen capture tool for Google Chrome that lets you capture screenshots of anything on your browser screen.Lightshot is a Chrome extension that enables users to capture any part of the screen and use drawing tools before saving it locally or to other locations. It’s a handy and lightweight Chrome extension, which allows you to quickly capture screenshots from different webpages. Lightshot lets you do advanced image editing online, quickly upload screenshots, and save or print screenshots right from the browser window. We have earlier covered so many free Chrome extensions that provide the same functionality of capturing screenshots. Lightshot is another such free screen capture tool that not only allows you to capture screenshots, but also lets you upload them on its server from where you can share them and edit them online using advanced editing tools and filters, which you find generally in some good image editing software like Photoshop or Paint.Net. Apart from that, it lets you find “visually similar” images on Google and Tineye.

Let’s first see how you can download and install this free screen capture tool to your Chrome browser. Then we will discuss how you can use Lightshot to capture and upload screenshots from within your browser. Lightshot can be added to your Chrome browser just like any other Chrome extension.

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