XYplorer Beta Club

Let's start this new forum with a generic thread: Screenshots.

For me a good screen shooter is essential software which I'm using all the time. And that's FastStone Capture in my case.

admin wrote: And that's FastStone Capture in my case.

And I've been using http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/ since I was back on Win98! I'm still using an older vers (3.6) because it does everything I need but is a bit less resource hungry on this ole W2K sys.

I like FastStone Capture and its workflow! but last time I checked it was lacking a lot quality-wise for captures on Windows Vista/7 (Aero stuff). It's really hard to find an application with a decent UI which is not too complex, too minimalistic or ugly, bloated, expensive (tried a lot of them like: SnagIT, SnapDraw, ZScreen, 7Capture, ...).
Long story short I like and use WinSnap and I hold a lot of hope for the upcoming version 4 because it is still lacking a bit on the quality side (capture of native shadows and translucency).

PicPick is my favourite. And Greenshot as second. Both free and can be made as portable.

tried many, stopped on FastStone Capture. best at any criteria for me.

Ditto: FastStone Capture but I'm also trying out ScreenshotCaptor from Mouser at DonationCoder.com

Also, related software:
"SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file."
from Nir Sofer
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html
Most of his apps are very good.
http://www.nirsoft.net/

I've been using SnagIt for a LONG time, and continue to use it. It's not free, but it works really well for me. I especially like the power of the editor, though I *do* wish it would do a gradient fill... I use the SnagIt editor for almost all of my image editing. (incidentally, I also use Camtasia Studio for video screen capture for making webcasts, etc).

I haven't tried FastStone, but it sounds like it might be worth checking out!

PicPick is nice, but I have switched to ZScreen months ago. Uploading, processing, effects, continuous development, a nice IRC channel and great dev support.
Also, feature requests are taken and fulfilled quite fast.

+1 for Screenshot Captor for more heavy-duty screenshot taking. As a quick tool I have been using Greenshot receltly -- it may be .net, but it does what it does well.

Greenshot is a part of ZScreen (its image editing component) BTW.

I've been using SnagIt and Camtasia for years, as well. Thumbs up for both.
SnagIt has a great feature to capture the full screen even if it has partially scrolled below your monitor view.

GregH wrote:SnagIt has a great feature to capture the full screen even if it has partially scrolled below your monitor view.

FastStone Capture can do that too.

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PicPict will do all things that any one need

Can someone please say which of the mentioned (or other) screen shot tools is:
* native, i.e. not .net (or other framework) dependent
* portable
* satisfies the needs of its present user
* has flexible snapshot area selection possibility
* has basic editing possibilities (like: ellipses, arrows, shadow edges)
* is perhaps even free (but need not be!)

For quite some time I have been using Greenshot, but it is .net dependent. After I recently had to install .net on a notebook just because of Greenshot, which afterwards made me loose two hours or so for .net updates, I am feed up with such things.

Thank you!
Borut