A screenshot on its own often needs a little context — an arrow pointing at a button, a highlighted line of text, or a short note explaining what went wrong. Rather than opening a separate image editor, you can annotate directly with the free sshot.online browser extension.
Capture the region
Press Ctrl + Shift + S (or click the toolbar icon and choose Select area & capture). The page dims and you drag to select the area you want.
Use the annotation toolbar
Once the region is captured, a floating toolbar appears with several tools:
- Pen — freehand drawing for circling or underlining something.
- Line & arrow — point directly at a button, field, or error.
- Rectangle — box off a specific part of the interface.
- Highlighter — draw attention to a line of text without covering it.
- Text — add a short label or explanation, with a color picker for all tools.
Undo, cancel, and finish
Press Ctrl + Z to undo the last annotation, or Esc to cancel the whole selection. When it looks right, click Upload to get an instant share link — it opens automatically — or use Copy / Download if you would rather keep it locally.
On restricted pages such as chrome:// settings or the Web Store, the extension cannot draw an overlay directly on the page and opens a full-tab editor instead, with the same annotation tools.
Do not have the extension installed yet? Grab it from the extension page — it takes under a minute to load and works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera.