Thursday 16 July 2009

Screen Capture Tools: 12 Free Tools and Techniques

Windows Only
By default, you can only do a full page and active window print screen on Windows. The following tools give you much more flexibility.

ZScreen
Open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. [Download]

Screenshot Captor
Behave like most screen capture software. The most interesting part is – you can run it from a USB thumbdrive. Talking about print screen portability. [Download]

Cropper
Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# on the Microsoft .Net platform. [Download]

Capture
Capture is a quick-and-easy screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. [Download]

MWSnap
Small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. [Download]

ScreenPrint32
Free windows tool to print and/or capture to disk or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen. [Download]

Snippy
Useful free tool to copy webpage screenshot for sharing purposes. Interesting thing is that, when you cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard; this makes it very convenient to select something interesting on a Web site and send it out in an email message. [Download]

SWBCapture
Screen capture utility that allows you to quickly and easily capture an image of any window on your desktop, or the entire desktop. [Download]

Screen Grab Pro
Screen Grab Pro features one-click grab of any screen for ease of use, Timer operation, Current window selection list and more. [Download]

Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter
Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter is a free screen-capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area. [Download]

Gadwin PrintScreen
Capture screenshots with ease. [Download]

FastStone Capture
Light and powerful screen capture application with whole screen, object-selective and region screencapture ability. Save files in various formats, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF. [Download]

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