Previously I wrote about taking screenshots in Linux with various applications (see “Taking screenshots in Linux“). In that article I left out one of the most powerful tools for taking screenshots – Shutter. Shutter is the new name for the project that was once called GScrot. GScrot is the GUI version of the handy Scrot [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 23rd, 2009
- Comments: 17
Taking screenshots in Linux
So you’ve been reading about Linux on ghacks for a few months now and you’ve noticed plenty of screenshots or images of applications in action. Now it’s time you found out just how those images are taken. No it’s not magic, but in one instance it’s ImageMagick. Actually there are a few ways to take [...]
Create Freehand Screenshots With Snippy
Snippy is a portable application for Windows XP and previous versions of Windows if they have the redistributable version of GDI+ installed that brings an interesting feature to the table of screenshot applications. My favorite screenshot application MWSnap supports only screenshots that are rectangular and I encountered several situations in the past where I had [...]
Create An Automatic Screenshot Journal
Time Snapper is a unique application that can be used to create an automatic screenshot journal. The software automatically creates screenshots of the user’s desktop or the active application window and saves them in a selected directory.
By default a new screenshot is created every 5 seconds in png format that is covering the whole screen. [...]
Make Screenshots Of The Command Line
It’s not a problem to make a screenshot of the Windows command line if it is opened in Windows but what if you have to open the command line before Windows start? There is no obvious way to create a screenshot of the command line when Windows is not running. Some users might need to [...]
Thumber a movie thumbnailer
This is a premier for Ghacks, the first review of a Macintosh application. Thumber is a software for Apple Macintosh (Mac OS X Leopard) that takes one second snapshots of a selected movie creating one image out of all of them. That’s a simple concept which was probably taken from Cinema Redux by Brendan Dawes [...]
Keep your screenshots organized and ready for online use
Making screenshots can be fun. But that’s not all. As a blogger, designer or anyone who shares his ideas and experiences on the web, you know how useful they can be in terms of showing the others what was just happening on your screen when you were writing that awesome article about whatever it should [...]
