1. Welcome Guest! In order to create a new topic or reply to an existing one, you must register first. It is easy and free. Click here to sign up now!.
    Dismiss Notice

Five Free Screen Capture Apps

Discussion in 'General Software' started by Alan, Mar 4, 2011.

  1. Alan

    Alan Inactive

    Joined:
    Sep 8, 2009
    Messages:
    561
    The software in this series has been tested, checked and found to be worthy of a place in this post. Should you feel there is a more worthwhile FREE alternative, submit the title and a link for testing and if approved, it will be added to the list.


    ScreenHunter is an award-winning screen capture software solution to capture any part of screen image. You can print and edit screenshots with annotations as well as web capture, scanning and video screen capture. Capture any part of your desktop, a window or full screen with your mouse pointer. You can save captures in BMP, JPEG and GIF files as well as create a hotkey from F1 to F12 and "Print Screen" key. It has a screen delay function which makes it possible to capture drop down shots. This makes it so handy when showing drop downs when writing tutorials.

    Features:
    • Rectangle Area
    • Active Window
    • Full Screen
    • Delayed Capture
    • Automatic naming and saving to file
    • Zoombox
    • Flexible Hotkey


    Screenshot Captor is another program for taking screenshots on your computer but this one different from other screenshot utilis in several notable ways.

    Features:
    • Optimized for taking lots of screenshots with minimal intervention
    • Smart autonaming of files, and ability to embed textual comments in files
    • Good multi-monitor support & autoscroll capture for windows too big for screen
    • Highly configurable to make it work the way you want it to; stays out of your way in the system tray
    • 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
    • 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
    • Optional automatic image file versioning
    • Seamless integration with Unicode Image Maker tool
    • Automatically finds boundaries of non-rectangular/themed windows
    • Autoscroll capture for windows too big for screen
    • Deluxe thumbnail maker
    • Quick PostCapture PopUp Dialog
    • Quick Screenshot Emailer Menu
    • Full set of scanner acquisition tools and scanner image correction


    7capture is free screen capture software for Windows 7, Vista and XP. 7capture automatically handles complicated transparency problems such as rounded corners and Aero semi-transparent windows backgrounds. No matter what Windows version you are using, 7capture will do its magic.

    Features:
    • Transparent rounded corners
    • Alpha transparency (Vista & 7)
    • Capture themes colours for even better looking screenshots.


    Free Screen Video Recorder is a compact, yet full-featured screen video recorder and screenshot capture tool that allows you to easily record screen activities and capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen and rectangular regions. You can choose to save captures to file, clipboard or print them out directly from the program window.

    Features:
    • Built-in editing tools
    • Resizing
    • Cropping
    • Rotating
    • Saves video files as AVI
    • BMP, JPEG, GIF, TGA or PNG formats
    • Save captures to file, clipboard or print directly

    MWSnap

    [​IMG]​

    MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.

    Features:
    • 5 snapping modes
    • Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings
    • System-wide hotkeys
    • Clipboard copy/paste
    • Printing
    • Auto-saving, auto-printing
    • Auto-start with Windows
    • Minimizing to system tray
    • An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs
    • A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen
    • A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths
    • A color picker showing screen colors with separated RGB parts
    • Fast picture viewer
    • Adding frames and mouse pointer images
    • Multilevel configurable undo and redo
    • Multilingual versions
    • Configurable user interface
     
    Alan, Mar 4, 2011
    #1
  3. Alan

    Alan Inactive

    Joined:
    Sep 8, 2009
    Messages:
    561
    Modified to the new format.
     
    Alan, Mar 14, 2011
    #2

Share This Page