Google has already presented Android Pie 9.0, the latest version of your mobile operating system; And beyond all the new features that this new version of Android brings with it, both in terms of interface and security and new tools, we are going to show you how to take screenshots and edit images before sharing them with your contacts through messaging apps like WhatsApp. And Android Pie arrives with a new application called Tags either Markup.
How to take screenshots with Android Pie
It is a very accessible editor with which we can cut, edit, write and many other things about our own screenshots. Below we offer you a complete tutorial to take screenshots and edit images with Android Pie 9.0.
Take a screenshot
The way to take a screenshot in Android Pie 9.0 has not changed compared to the previous version of Android, 8.0 Oreo; Yes, another totally new way is added. Thus, if we follow the traditional method to take a screenshot, we only have to press the on/off button and the volume down button at the same time. In addition, we can also take a screenshot by holding down the on/off button until the settings menu appears. To turn off and Restart, to which the option has been added Screenshot, in third place. If we click on this option, the screenshot will be saved in the system.
Click on the Edit option
Once the screenshot is taken, a temporary message will appear informing us of this option, with up to three related options: Share, Edit and Eliminate. If we have not had time to choose any option, we just have to display the notification menu so that they appear again; Now we can click on Edit and, then and if our terminal allows it, choose the Labels or Markup option, in English.
Start editing: Crop the image
To simplify things further, and if we want to crop the image, we will be allowed to do so without having to click on any option; we will only have to move the frames to select the image section that interests us, dragging the edges with our fingers until we find the ideal size. The dark part will be left out of the image once the crop is selected; the illuminated part will remain.
Draw and write on the image
The last step allows us doodle on the image with a wide range of brushes and colors at our disposal. Thus, and through marker, we have up to seven colors different ones to make little drawings on the image with our finger, whether they are marks, arrows, circles or other elements to indicate something in the capture, as information if we want to send the image to one or more contacts; Furthermore, with the highlighter We can do the same, although with transparency, if we want to mark something on a text.
Once the image editing is finished, we have two options at our disposal, both located at the top of the screen. Thus, we can Keep the edited capture on our device in case we want to use it later or, directly, Share to send the edited capture through an instant messaging app such as WhatsApp without having to save it on our mobile.