snip tool in catalina

I just updated to Catalina but not the Snip Tool does not work. I open it to capture a section of my document/screen and when I hit this my whole screen disappears and it goes to a blank desktop page. Why is it doing this and how can I get it to go back to actually snipping a piece of document that I want? Thanks

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 2:37 PM

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Feb 9, 2020 2:49 PM in response to Caliegirl72

Are you using the Screenshot app in the Applications-->Utilities folder or something else?

This is a clip from Screenshot using Catalina. Screenshot is a standard Apple app in the iOS for a while. I'm sure there are others.

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