Sometimes I create thumbnails of screenshots and include them in my articles to give you a preview of the subject I’m writing about. I normal tend to use the print key on windows to make the screenshot and fire up gimp to reduce the size to be able to add it to the article. To be honest, this process takes way to long and I thought of ways to optimize it.
That’s when I found the freeware Screenshot Captor which does everything I need, and more. With Screenshot Captor it is possible to grab the complete screen, part of the screen, a fixed size or the active window using hotkeys. If you simply press the print key it grabs the current screen for instance. Whenever you’ve done that you see a little default box with some options in it, for instance save the image, create thumbnail, discard image and so on.
If you discard the image it is shown in the main window of screenshot captor and you can work with it. You could for instance add text to the screenshot and highlight or blur regions. This is definitely the best screenshot tool for my purposes, it is fast and has everything that I need to speed up the process and still have great screenshots for my blogs.
Update: Screenshot Captor 2 has been released recently by the author of the program. The new version introduces several new features and options. I suggest you check out our new review by following this link: Screen Capture Software Screen Captor
Update 2: Screenshot Captor 3 is now available for all supported Windows versions. The program introduces new features such as support for Windows 7, automatic or on-demand uploading to image hosting sites or custom ftp servers, excellent scrolling windows support and a set of scanner acquisition tools. Check out Screenshot Captor 3 Released for the new review.
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I’m really glad you liked the program – I’m always looking for new features to add so don’t hesitate to make some feature requests!
I Love Screenshot Captor it rocks. Mouser has a lot of excellent programs.
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Nice that you are here at my blog mouser, welcome :)
Thunder yes lots of applications look pretty usefull
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Why do I yet need another program for screenshots? The “PrintScrn” key combined with the ultra fast minimal footprint freeware program IrfanView is undeniably the fastest way of handling the shebang in all of its, by nature fairly limited, facettes.
For a demo:
1. Press “PrntScr”
2. Fire up “irfanView” (comes as fast as Notepad)
3. Do a “Ctrl+V” (Paste)
4. Lassoo with the mouse the content you really want
5. Do a “Ctrl+Y” to crop to your selection
6. Press “S” to save as whatever you want.
It does not get any faster or better. No way!
Ok, if you want to best possibly want to prepare the image as a JPEG for email or web use, you save it as .bmp and run it thriugh xat.com’s JPEG Oprimizer (also ultrafast and highly effective). Thus no need to wait half an eternity to mwait for a Photoshop or Gimp to wake up (I’d rather use Paint Shop Pro V.5 to V.7 anyway – certainly not the later Corel “consumer product” stamped issues, which are as slow as hell too).
FastStone Capture http://www.faststone.org/ is my current favorite