One recording, video and stills

A walkthrough usually needs both: a video for the flow, and a couple of still images for the doc, the slide or the bug report. ScreenTailor gets you both from a single take — scrub to any frame of the recording and copy it as a PNG, annotations included.

Why screenshot a recording instead of the screen

A live screenshot means recreating the exact moment — the menu open, the error visible, the cursor in the right place — a second time, just to photograph it. If you recorded the flow, that moment is already captured on every frame. Pick the best one and take the still from there; the transient states you can never re-pose (a toast, a hover, mid-animation) are the frames a recording catches for free.

Your annotations come along

The screenshot is the frame exactly as you decorated it in the editor. Whatever is on the preview lands in the PNG:

• An arrow or glow on the button that matters — see effects.
• A blur over the email address or API key that doesn't belong in a public issue.
• A caption naming the step, or an emoji stamp — see captions.
• The zoom framing you set, so the still is already cropped to the action — see zoom & emphasis.

Annotate once, use twice: the same arrows and blurs stay in the exported video and in every still you grab from it.

Clipboard, not a downloads folder

The camera button copies the frame to your clipboard as a PNG. Paste it straight into Slack, a Google Doc, a GitHub issue or an email — no save dialog, no hunting through Downloads for Screenshot 2026-07-08 at….

How it works

1. Record your screen, or open an existing recording in ScreenTailor.
2. Scrub the timeline to the frame you want.
3. Add or adjust annotations — arrows, blur, captions, zoom — as needed.
4. Click the camera button. The decorated frame is on your clipboard as a PNG — paste it anywhere.

Part of a full editor

Frame capture is one part of ScreenTailor's built-in editor — zoom, captions, effects, trimming and Checkpoint Recording live in the same window. Writing up bugs? See how it fits a bug-report workflow.

Frequently asked questions