Capture screenshots in Windows with Screenshot Captor

Posted on May 9, 2008 at 5:11 am

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Capture screenshots in Windows with Screenshot Captor
FastStone – Free Windows screen capture software

Looking for a free way to capture screen shots? Screenshots are great because it provides a graphical element that makes it quicker for other people to understand what you are trying to say or write about. The old way to take a screenshot of your desktop was to press the “Print Screen” button, open an image / picture editor, paste the captured screenshot into the program, edit the screenshot, give it a name and save it to a desired location on the hard drive.

This method is okay, but not really efficient if you are going to take a lot of screenshots. Screenshot Captor is a tool that was created to make it easier for us to capture screenshots .

Screenshot Captor is an advanced screenshot capture tool which defies the old way of taking screenshots of your computer. To take a screenshot, you just need to press the “Print Screen” button once. You can continue to take more screenshots with the same button over and over again without having to worry about the additional paste, edit and save steps.

Once you are done, you can access Screenshot Captor to find all your automatically saved screenshots and continue working on the next processes (editing, saving with a different name etc.) This way, you can capture all your screenshots first and continue with the editing process later, which is much faster than the previous way.

screenshot-captor-interface

Screenshot Captor Features

This freeware offers all the basic features of a screenshot capture tool plus some unique, notable features:

Optimized, super efficient way to capture screenshots from your computer.
Screenshots are automatically saved in a temporary folder with customizable, auto-naming convention.
7 screenshot capture modes :
1. Grab screenshot of entire workspace.
2. Grab Screenshot of current Screen.
3. Grab Screenshot of Active window.
4. Grab Screenshot of selected Region.
5. Grab Screenshot of Fixed size region.
6. Grab Screenshot of windows Object or Scrolling Window.
7. Grab Screenshot and Repeat Last Size and Position.

screenshot-captor-capture-modes

Each capture modes can be accessed via the system tray, program menu or configurable hotkeys.
Post Capture Image Dialog – can be enabled or disabled to allow quick actions on the most recently captured screenshot (discard, keep, print, etc.)
Automatic image file versioning with options to add additional comments to screenshots.
Highly configurable screenshot taking options that is easily accessed from the Windows system tray.
Screenshots editing tool – add cool effects to your screenshots with tools such as borders, blur effects, color adjustments, and more. To make the capturing process faster, you can define all these settings before you even start taking screenshots , so that all your screenshots will automatically be saved (on capture) with cool effects!

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Screenshot Captor can be easily linked to other external tools like an image editor to make it ultra useful.
Comes with a slimline sidebar viewing panel that supports full shell operations.
Deluxe thumbnail maker makes it easier for you to create picture thumbnails based on your screenshot.

Multi monitor support.
MoveTo and SendTo menu allows you to save screenshots to another location from within the same interface.

Overall, Screenshot Captor is one of the most advanced and innovative tool to capture screenshots that I’ve found. The ability to automatically saved screenshots with predefined settings is really a time saver. Try it today!

This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya

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Comments

8 Responses to “Capture screenshots in Windows with Screenshot Captor”

David "Crazykinux" Perry said on : May 9th, 2008 at 7:15 am

You have the most amazing tips! Thanks so much for uncovering nifty freeware like this one.

Can’t wait to start using it.

Cheers,

CK

akishore said on : May 9th, 2008 at 9:09 am

Hey David, thanks for the kind comment! I appreciate it very much! I always love free Windows software!

mouser said on : May 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Hi Syahid,

I just came across your wonderful detailed review of Screenshot Captor.

I can’t tell you how nice it made me feel when I read it. You probably know that programs get “mentioned” often all over the web but usually it is just someone copying+pasting a description of a program.

It’s very rare and delightful when someone like you actually creates some screenshots of their own and writes their own descriptions, etc.

Anyway, THANK YOU. And i’m glad you like the program.

And please do let me know any feature requests you might have for screenshot captor!

Syahid A. said on : May 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

@mouser: No problem, I really love Screenshot Captor. Really speed up my work.

Patti said on : January 18th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Hi and thank you for your suggestions–however when I try to save the clips they either won’t open or are all black.
Please give me some suggestions.
Thanks
Patti

mouser said on : January 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

can you try this beta version and see if it solves your problem of black screens:
http://www.donationcoder.com/S.....rSetup.exe

Brian said on : January 28th, 2009 at 10:20 am

Ah, just what I was looking for. One button, hit it over and over and end up with lots of screenshots instead of losing half of them because I forgot to go paste and save.

And to think, all I had to do to find it was make 4 Google searches with different terms, limit the results to within the past year, eliminate pages with Faststone in them, and then persevere into the second page of results. If there is one thing Google sucks at, it is helping you find useful utilities.

….must find more coffee.

munka said on : June 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 am

I known a easy way – http://desktop-screenshot.com/ . This software makes automatic screenshots of your desktop and automatically uploads it. You can then grab the embed code for forums or websites.