I’m always going the extra mile when I take screenshots in Windows XP. I hit the Print button on the keyboard, open GIMP and paste the contents into a new image, cut the part of the image that I need, resize it and finally save it to be able to upload it to my ftp.
The worst part of this job is that it takes a lot of time to complete all the steps and I think I found a nice free screen capturing software with the name MWSnap which can optimize this process.
Four different ways of creating screenshots are supported by MWSnap: Fixed Rectangle, Any Rectangle, Window / Menu or Full Desktop. The Any Rectangle method is working best for my purposes.
I can draw a rectangle around the part of my screen that I want to capture, fine tune it with the cursor keys and the comfortable zoom feature, and left-click when I’m done to capture the rectangle.
The Fixed Rectangle captures rectangles of a predefined size that you specify. This is useful if you want to take a series of captures that should all have the same size. Window and Desktop mode should be self explanatory.
Hotkeys can be used to speed it up further, CTRL + Shift + A would be a shortcut for Any Rectangle for instance. MWSnap provides the user with additional functions, a ruler and zoom function for instance that make it possible to create precise screenshots.
Images can be saved in a number of formats including jpg,gif and png with the possibility to select the quality level of the saved image.
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imho FastStone Screen Capture
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
is more flexible
Sounds useful. I think you forgot to link to the company.
i use purrint for in-game screenshotting. its a tiny prog (114kb) that runs in the system tray, and it can hijack the print screen key on the keyboard to automatically save the screeny as a jpeg or bmp or whatever your preference to wherever you like.
http://www.bcheck.net/apps/#purrint
very useful… and free… check out the authors other softwares too…
http://www.bcheck.net/apps/
some more useful apps here :D
enjoy…. :P
Faststone Capture ruled! It also captured a whole HTML page – even the invisible parts you have to scroll down to see. Unfortunately Faststone Capture turned from freeware to shareware last month.