Sjoerd Koolen, Productivity Adoption Consultant at Microsoft, demo-ed Lightshot to me and he uploaded a screenshot to the Lightshot prnt.sc (printscreen) servers and got its short link right away for easy sharing.
Personally I have been using WinSnap from NTWind Software for the past couple of years, because it provided me with more helpful features (and efficiency) than the default Windows Snipping Tool. I’ll do a quick comparison of Lightshot, WinSnap and the Windows Snipping Tool as well.