Screenshot Editing – Tool to Quickly Hide/Blur/Redact Text

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I’ve captured a screenshot and I want to share it (on Stack Overflow, actually), but I need to blur/hide out a couple words in the screenshot. Is there a tool to quickly do this?

Best Answer

Skitch can do this quickly. See?

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Just click the blur button in the side bar and draw over your image to obscure things.

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Please note that this app saves files to Evernote by default which can be a problem for sensitive content. You may want to disable it by not signing into your Evernote account or by making the following setting changes:

  • Set Sync -> Save New Skitch Notes to Evernote to Manual
  • Uncheck Sharing -> Automatically Share and Copy Link after creating new Skitch Notes