This article presents you two free Chrome Screenshot Extensions and a free online application for you to do webpage screenshots. It's worth reading.

1. Reviews of Free Chrome Snapshot Extensions
Google Chrome is the most widely used browser in the world. The reasons may lie in that it is
safe, clean and intuitive to use. However, when you happen to see some information on
Chrome, which needs to be recorded, many of you have no clues at all. As taking screenshots
helps us communicate better than using texts, it is so important that you know some tricks to
do this job. Chrome snapshot extensions are a good solution to this problem as they can meet
the screenshot need and also very convenient to use.
There are many Chrome snapshot extensions available online. To take advantage of them, you
need to choose one and install it. Regularly, when the extension is installed, its icon will
appear at the toolbar of the Chrome browser. When you want to take a screenshot of the
webpage, you just need to click the extension’s icon and select a snapshot mode. Here are two
screenshot extensions you can use:
1. Awesome Screenshot
This extension not only allows you to capture the current page seen on your browser or the
scrolling page, but also supports horizontal scroll when capturing wide pages that do not fit in
one tab screen horizontally. When the screenshot is taken, you are able to annotate it with
circles, rectangles, lines, arrows, and texts. When everything is done, you can either save the
image to your local disk or upload it to awesomescreenshot.com and get a link of that image.

2. 2. Nimbus Screenshot
This google extension can help you screenshot any parts on the webpage as well as the entire
page. When the screenshot is taken, you can resize, crop and edit it. You can save the image to
Google Drive, Nimbus or just store it to your local disk in any of these formats: JPG, PNG and
BMP. This extension also supports horizontal scrolling.
Using snapshot extensions is convenient, but they may slow down the opening speed of
Chrome. Because your browser needs to load the extension every time you activate it which
may cost extra time. In this case, you can make use of an online tool to do webpage
screenshots.
Free Online Alternative to Chrome Snapshot Extension
Webpage Screenshot Capture is a web-based application; you don’t need to install anything on
your PC. You can use it to capture the entire page in high quality with just one click and edit it
with lines, shapes and texts after you upload it to the free Cloud provided by the server. To
utilize this tool, you need to:
 Navigate to the page you want to grab and copy its link.
 Go to Webpage Screenshot Capture site. Paste the URL into the address bar and click the
“Take Screenshot” button.

3.  You can save the page image to your local disk by clicking “Save image as a file” on the right
of the image or upload it to the Cloud by hitting the “Save online” button. If you choose to
upload it, you will receive three links of this image, which you can use in blogs and forums.
Moreover, you can share the image to you social accounts directly by choosing their icons
beneath the link.
In conclusion, this article introduces two Chrome screenshot extensions and one alternative to
them. All of them are free, but the former two need installation which might slow down the
Chrome speed while the last one is more straightforward and hassle-free.