Here’s a peek backstage of writing tech information each day: Sometimes the one appropriate header picture for the articles we write is a nonetheless body from an online video. And that’s type of a ache to gather — on YouTube I sometimes must set the standard as excessive as doable, then gradual the playback all the way down to 25% and hit fullscreen to attend for the interface to vanish earlier than taking a screenshot. Google simply made that individual little bit of my job so much simpler with the most recent addition to Chrome/YouTube, the power to shortly copy a single body of a video when it’s paused.

Here’s the way it works. Open up Chrome, or any Chromium-based browser that’s been up to date lately (like Edge). Go to your favorite uploaded clip of 90s sci-fi sitcom Third Rock from the Sun starring John Lithgow. Or, you understand, actually another video. Pause it on the related body, right-click the video interface, and click on “Copy video frame.” Bam, you’ve copied the picture into your working system’s copy-paste operate, able to plop it into Photoshop or the picture editor of your selection and make a information header picture.

According to the most recent publish on the Google Keyword blog, this could work with any embedded video the place the right-click menu hasn’t been suppressed, not simply YouTube…but when that’s the case, it isn’t exhibiting up anyplace else, as The Verge notes. That may change over the subsequent few weeks, however even when it doesn’t, it’s a boon to me since YouTube is the de facto commonplace place for anybody who needs to point out off nerdy stuff in video type. And not like another new YouTube options, it isn’t locked behind the Premium paywall. Much obliged, Google.