7 Screenshot Capturing Tools For Windows

Posted on June 26th, 2008 under Featured, FireFox, Freeware, Plugins, Portable Apps, Windows Tools

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Tool 1. Fast Stone Capture – This is a portable app that can do more than just sceenshot capturing which can capture images and saves then in 8 formats.

Features :

Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and scrolling windows/web pages

Capture multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus

Options to specify output destination (internal editor, clipboard, file, printer …)

Draw annotation objects such as texts, arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles and circles

Apply effects such as drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge

Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors …

Support external editors

Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats

Screen Color Picker

Screen Magnifier

Screen RulerFast Stone : HomePage | Download

Tool 2 : Screenshot Captor – It is a donationware software, this tool can be really useful while blogging as you can set the size of thumbnail in the Thumbnail maker settings so that the screen shots are not of variable sizes.This tool is also a portable application ie., this can run from a usb thumbdrive.

Features :

Autoscroll capture for windows too big for screen.

Deluxe thumbnail maker.

Lots of capture modes: Multimon (multiple monitors), Desktop, Active Window, Region, Windows Object. Each mode has a hotkey for quick access.

Unique Cool Effects, including automatic active window enhancement (see pictures below).

Unsurpassed support for 3rd party user configurable tools, including file browsers and image editors; extend the program to do whatever you need by interfacing it with other programs.

Slimline sidebar file browser provides full shell operations.Screenshot Captor : HomePageTool 3 : Snippy :

Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy.The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard.Snippy — HomePage | Size : 84 KB

Widows OS Option –

Method 1 : If you are using Windows OS then pressing “Print Screen Button” will copy the image of the full screen into to clipboard which can be pasted ( Ctrl + V ) in MS Paint.

Method 2 : If you want to take the screenshot of only the active window then select the Active Window and then press “Alt+ Print Screen Button “

FireFox Plugins For taking Screenshots :

ScreenGarb — Plugin for taking screenshots of web pages
FireShot – Read More about FireShot here.

Do share with us which tool you use to take screenshots for your posts and suggest a new tool that you feel can be part of this list.

Written by Avinash

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