10 free screen capture utilities for windows

December 30th, 2008 | by admin |

For taking screenshots you can use print screen button on your keyboard and windows captures the whole screen of your computer to clipboard but only copying the image to clipboard and then editing and saving the image manually is really time consuming job.By using dedicated software for the purpose of screen capture we can make our life so easy.

In this post i am gonna list some cool screen capture utilities for windows.

1) !Quick Screen Capture

!Quick Screen Capture is such a powerful screen capture and image editing utility. It allows you to take screenshots from any part of your screen in  more than 10 ways, and save images in  BMP/JPG/GIF formats. Supports hotkey, auto-saving, clipboard.

2) MWSnap

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.

3) Screenshot Captor

Screenshot Captor  is a program for taking screenshots on your computer. It’s different from other screenshot utilis in several notable ways:

* 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.
* 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 (see pictures below).

4) Gadwin PrintScreen

Gadwin PrintScreen Professional combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing and annotation utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool. Gadwin PrintScreen Professional is versatile and extremely easy-to-use.

5) FastStone Capture

FastStone Capture  is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word/PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more.

6) ScreenHunter

ScreenHunter 5 Free is a completely free screen capture software for you to easily take screenshots.

7) Any Screen Capture

Any Screen Capture allows you to print screen pictures at will and select grabbing area in rectangle, ellipse, window, control, menu and custom shapes etc. It can also preform DVD screen capture and game screen capture from hard-to-grab DirectX mode video applications, auto-scroll window to capture long web pages or long documents. The program integrates with new smart painting and editing features, saves images in popular BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF formats, supports Windows clipboard, auto-saving, hotkey.

Super Screen Capture

Super Screen Capture is an all-in-one software for free screen recorder software. You can capture screen in many ways, including full screen capture, region capture, window capture, scroll capture, directx capture, video screen capture, audio capture and etc. You can choose many kinds of output ways, including clipboard, printer, email, editor tool, temp folder, and all popular formats.

9) HyperSnap

HyperSnap 6  is the fastest and easiest way to take screen captures from Windows screen and text capture from places where system text copy is not possible. HyperSnap combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool.

10) Greenshot

Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.

* Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second.
* Apply text and shapes to the screenshot.
* Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot.
* Supports several image formats.

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