Capturing desktop is easy, by pressing PrtScr on your keyboard will do that quickly. But with PrtScr button you will only capture the whole desktop. What if you want to capture only some part of the desktop for example you want to capture only your taskbar or your address bar.
Faststone is a shareware that can do the quite the whole capturing for you. There are many type of capturing such as: Capture Active Windows, Capture Window/object, Capture Rectangle Region, Capture Freehand region, etc.
Features as taken from the original website faststone.org
* A small floating Capture Panel that can be dragged anywhere or minimized to the Windows tray area
* Resource friendly - uses a very small amount of memory, especially when minimized to the Windows tray area
* Global hotkeys to activate the program’s capture capabilities anytime, anywhere
* Efficient tools to capture windows, objects, full screen, rectangle/freehand-selected regions and scrolling areas
* Support capture of multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus
* Capture web pages in Microsoft Internet Explorer, FireFox and Opera
* Option to specify destination (internal editor, clipboard, file or printer) where the captured image will be sent
* Text/Arrowed line/Highlight/Watermark annotation
* Drop-shadow, torn-edge and fade-edge effects
* Add caption
* Resize, crop, zoom in/out
* Undo/Redo
* Support external editors, which allows you to add virtually unlimited editing capabilities to the program
* Save as BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TGA and PDF
* Send e-mails
* Send screenshots to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
* Screen magnifier
* Screen color picker
* Screen ruler
* Support multiple monitors
* Option to run when Windows starts
* And many more …
If you want to try, you could download the free trial version, but of course if you like the software please buy the original software for about US$19.95 to continue to support the company improving their software capability.
2 comments ↓
hmm, how about this one ? i’m already used this FireFox add-on , very powerfull, and most important thing is FREE
http://andy.5263.org/screengrab/
nice info zeux, will try this one.
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