Additional Functionality

Buttons
There are some buttons located at the bottom of the Spectacle window. Their functions are described below:
Help 	 Gives you the common menu items described in the Help Menu of the Fundamentals.
Configure... 	 Gives you access to Spectacle's Configure window where you can change the capture settings and default save location and filename.
Annotate 	 Opens an annotation editor window that offers various annotating tools:
Annotation editor
Give a try to the annotating tools. You might find everything that is needed to explain your screenshots there: arrows, pen, markers, text boxes, numbers, even smileys. It is possible to change the tool parameters and add effects (shadow, grayscale, and border).
When you think that annotating is finished press the Annotation Done button.
Tools 	 Opens a drop-down menu which offers various tools:
Open Default Screenshots Folder will highlight the last saved screenshot in the default file manager
Access to the Print dialog
A range of external programs for Screen Recording
Export 	 Opens a drop-down menu that will allow you to directly open the screenshot with all programs that are associated with the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) type. Depending on what programs are installed, you will be able to open and edit the snapshot in your graphics applications or viewers.
Copy Image to Clipboard/Copy Location to Clipboard 	 Copies the current screenshot or its location to the clipboard. You can also use the C keyboard shortcut for this.
Save As 	 Saves the screenshot as a PNG image in your default Pictures folder and immediately exits the application.

Configure
Use the Configure... button to open the configuration dialog.

General
General
When launching Spectacle 	 Allows to Take full screen screenshot, use last-used capture mode, or do not take a screenshot automatically. The last-used capture mode is the one set in Capture Mode
After taking a screenshot 	 Allows Save file to default folder, switching off any clipboard actions, copying the image to clipboard, or copying screenshot path to the clipboard. The default location can be configured using the Save configuration page. It is possible to Copy file location to clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere that accepts text input. Note that you must be running a clipboard manager in order to keep the path in the clipboard after Spectacle quits.
Press screenshot key to 	 When a shortcut to make screenshot is pressed and Spectacle is already running it is possible to configure the behavior of the screenshoting system. You can choose between taking a new screenshot, opening of a new Spectacle window, and returning focus to the existing Spectacle window.
Use light background 	 Use a light background color to mask the cropped-out area in the rectangular region selector. This may make dark cursors easier to see.
Show magnifier 	 When a screenshot is saved, copy the location at which the file was saved to the clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere that accepts text input. Note that you must be running a clipboard manager in order to keep the path in the clipboard after Spectacle quits.
Accept on click-and-release 	 If checked, accept the selected region as soon as the mouse button is released in the Rectangular Region mode.
When selecting a new region, without a previously saved region available, clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button should immediately capture the selected region. When a previously saved region is shown, the saved region can be manipulated further and saving this region requires manual confirmation ( or double click with the ). Clicking and dragging outside of the previously saved region captures the newly selected region immediately.
Remember selected area 	 By default, Spectacle remembers an initial selection when you take a screenshot of a rectangular region until you close the Spectacle window. You can also choose to make Spectacle never remember selected area or remember it between the screenshoting sessions.

Save
When you use the Save function, Spectacle saves the image with a default filename, in your Pictures folder (which is inside your home folder). The default filename includes the date and time when the image was taken.
The Save page allows you to set the default save location and filename. Clicking this option brings up a dialog box like the following:
Save
Save Location 	 In the location text box set the folder where you'd like to save your screenshots when you press Save.
Compression Quality 	 Choose the image quality when saving with lossy image formats like JPEG. The higher values give better quality but increase the file size. See Wikipedia page for the details on the image formats that are used in Spectacle.
Filename 	 Set a default filename for saved screenshots.
You can use the following placeholders in the filename, which will be replaced with actual text when the file is saved:
%D: Day
%H: Hour
%M: Month
%Nd: Sequential number padded to N digits
%S: Second
%T: Window title
%Y: Year (4 digit)
%Nd: Sequential number
%m: Minute
%y: Year (2 digit)
You can click on placeholders in the reference list below to insert them into the Filename line.
If a file with this name already exists, a serial number will be appended to the filename. For example, if the filename is Screenshot, and Screenshot.png already exists, the image will be saved as Screenshot-1.png.
Use the drop-down box next to the text field to select the default image format for screenshots. See Wikipedia page for the details on the image formats that are used in Spectacle.

Shortcuts
This configuration page can be used to change the default shortcuts of Spectacle. It is possible to configure shortcuts for starting Spectacle and capturing different parts of your desktop.

Drag and Drop
A captured image can be dragged to another application or document. If the application is able to handle images, a copy of the full image is inserted there.
If you drag a screenshot into a file manager window, a dialog pops up where you can edit the filename and select the image format and the file will be inserted into the actual folder.
If you drag the screenshot to a text box, the path to the temporary saved file is inserted. This is useful for example to upload a screenshot through web forms or to attach screenshots into bug reports on the bugtracker.
This works with all clients that do not pick up the image data, but only look for a in the dragged mimedata.