Ever wanted to take a scrolling screenshot of a selected area on a webpage? It’s not possible by the default means in Windows 10, Linux, Mac, or any other OS. But if you’re using Chrome or Firefox on your computer, the “Nimbus Capture” extension let’s you effortlessly take a screenshot of a selected area while scrolling through a page.

The extension also supports basic editing such as drawing arrows and boxes over a important areas of a screenshot, plus there’s an option to save a screenshot as a PDF file as well. There’s direct integration for uploading/sending screenshot to Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more.

Take a scrolling screenshot with Nimbus in Chrome and Firefox
Taking a scrolling screenshot of a selected area with Nimbus on Chrome and Firefox

To install “Nimbus Capture” extension in Chrome or Firefox, click on either of the links below to download the extension from the official repositories.

Install Nimbus Screenshot extension in Chrome
Install Nimbus Screenshot extension in Chrome

We’ll be using Chrome for this tutorial, but Nimbus works same way on both Chrome and Firefox. You can follow the instructions below to take scrolling screenshot of selected area using Nimbus Capture for Firefox as well.

After installing the Nimbus Capture extension, look for the extensions’ icon next to the address bar in your Chrome or Firefox browser. Click on the icon to open Nimbus Capture options menu.

Access Nimbus screenshot options
Access Nimbus screenshot options

From the available options in Nimbus Capture menu, click the “Selected & Scroll” button to capture a selected screen area while scrolling.

Nimbus selected scroll screen capture option
Click “Selected & Scroll” button from Nimbus menu

Now click and drag to capture a screen area. To capture area below the scroll, drag the cursor (while selecting area) to the bottom of the browser’s window to scroll through the webpage.

Selecting an area while scrolling to take a screenshot with Nimbus
Selecting an area while scrolling to take a screenshot with Nimbus

After selecting the area you want to capture, click the button to save the screenshot on your computer. If you wish edit the screenshot before saving, hit the button to view editing control panel.

Save the screenshot you took using Nimbus
Click the ✔ button to save the screenshot

Quickly take a scrolling screenshot using keyboard shortcut

If your work involves taking a lot of scrolling screenshots of selected area, you may want to take advantage of Nimbus Capture’s keyboard shortcuts.

The default shortcut to use the “Selected & Scroll” screenshot option in Nimbus Capture is Ctrl + Shift + 3. You can change it to your liking by going to the extension’s options/settings menu in Chrome and Firefox.

Keyboard shortcut for scroll screenshot Nimbus
Use “Ctrl + Shift + 3” keyboard shortcut to take a scrolling screenshot with Nimbus

You can also configure the file name pattern for saved screenshots in the settings menu.