Modern operating systems come with all kinds of visual effects like rounded window corners or alpha effects that look nice but are a problem to users who want to take screenshots. Most free screenshot programs do not support the removal of these visual effects which means that the screenshots look unprofessional.
Most webmasters who take screenshots help themselves by moving the window that they want to take a screenshot of on a white background so that the alpha effects do not play a role anymore. The rounded corners on the other hand remain a problem.
Standard Screenshot
7Capture Screenshot
7Capture removes the background of the window before it takes the screenshot. It furthermore works perfectly with rounded borders as can be seen in the second screenshot.
Usage on the other hand is a little bit more complicated as the screenshot software does not provide access to keyboard shortcuts or a simple window selection option.
The program will list all open windows on startup with the option to refresh the display so that windows that are opened after starting the screenshot program are displayed in the list as well.
The screenshot taking process begins with the selection of the window the screenshot should be taken of. A click on the Capture button will capture the window and display the captured image in a preview window.
There are no controls in that window other than being able to scroll up or down if the screenshot that has been taken is larger than the 7Capture window and to save the screenshot to the local computer system.
Screenshots taken can be saved in various formats including jpg and png. There is furthermore no way to change the quality settings of the screenshots which can mean that the screenshot needs to opened in an image editor afterwards to do that.
7Capture is the only free – as far as we know – software that works with rounded borders and window transparency effects. It lacks additional functionality especially keyboard shortcuts and options to take non-window screenshots like those that only take a region on the screen or screenshots of scrolling windows. The software can be downloaded from the developer’s website.
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Try ScreenshotCaptor from donationcoder.com – it can do everything mentioned in this post and much, much more. It is freeware.
I second the use of ScreenShot Captor.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html
The software is free for download after registering (name and email) with the site. You can check the site’s privacy policy but as a member for some years I haven’t received anything other than the newsletter, which I signed up for.
This software is very good. Thanks
Very good. Thanks.
you can try zscreen.It’s free 7 also opensource
http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/
The tools are too complicated, I’d recommend SnapaShot, cause it has grear tiny design for Vista and Win 7 with only two buttons, and it is also small, quick and free.
You can take it from here: http://nicekit.com/screen-capture/best-free-snapshot.htm