Screen Capture

WinSnap is a screen capture utility that enables you to take screenshots of non-rectangular windows and applications, using a background of your choice as well as regular windows, the desktop, popup menus and more. It can automatically enhance the capture with a smooth drop shadow effect, add a watermark, change the coloring and optionally save as a new file or copy it to the clipboard. Other features include support for Vista Aero effects, image rotation, advanced auto-saving, image scaling, send by email (MAPI), keyboard shortcuts and more. WinSnap can save images in PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF and JPG format.

ScreenVirtuoso enables you to record desktop activity and save the clip as AVI file, which can also be converted to Flash and MPEG 1/2/4 VCD/SVCD/DVD compatible formats. The program can limit recording to a selected window or a rectangle area on the screen. The program also captures DirectX output properly, which can often result in black screens during regular screen captures. You can choose to record audio and optionally annotate a scene with various shapes or speech bubbles. The program is easy to use, you can pause/resume recording via keyboard hotkeys, and also adjust the frame rate to achiever higher or lower quality videos. Due to the usually large file size, the AVI video clips are mostly useful for offline usage (CDs, DVDs etc.), rather than publishing on the web.

FastStone Capture is a screen capture utility with integrated image viewer and capture editor. It enables you to capture Windows, objects, selections or the entire desktop, and apply additional editing tools like resizing, sharpening, shapes, text, watermarks and more. The capture can be sent to the image viewer, clipboard, or directly saved to file. Other features include support for image viewing, a screen magnifier, a color picker and support for capturing of scrolling windows (e.g an entire web page). FastStone Capture supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

AutoScreenRecorder is a simple screen recorder that can capture desktop activity and save the recording as AVI video or automatically convert it to Flash (.swf) output. It can capture from any area on your desktop, using an adjustable, rectangular area, a window, or optionally the entire desktop. You can optionally include the current date and username, a note and choose to include or exclude the mouse pointer. The output can be save in Flash format or as AVI, using a codec and compression options of your choice. AutoScreenRecorder is very easy to use, however does not allow you to edit or annotate the captured frames - it offers a simple `what you record is what you get` approach.

HyperSnap-DX is a powerful screen capture tool that comes complete with image editing tools. It captures screens from standard desktop programs as well as those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3dfx Glide mode games. It even snags frames from many software DVD players and video editing software. HyperSnap-DX can auto-scroll and capture long web pages and other documents, even capturing more than is visible on the screen. The program tightly integrates with the Windows clipboard, and features a variety of painting and editing tools including an option to add shadow effects or frames to your screen captures. Also included comes an FTP upload tool.

A system tray-based program that can capture your screen or any part of it with the press of the PrintScrn key (or any other key you configure). You can adjust the captured picture`s brightness, contrast, color balance, size, color invert, or convert to grayscale or black and white. Pictures can be edited, using an image editor of your choice, printed or saved in multiple formats such as JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF and PCX.

SPX Instant Screen Capture allows you to capture freehand, rectangle, entire window, objects or regions including windows application menus and more. In addition, it sends captures to clipboard, file, graphic editor, mail, ICQ, printer or even a fax. The program can automatically email images as attachment or embedded and also capture web pages with auto-scrolling. Additional features include automatic file name generation, XML transfer, edge effects, watermarks/annotations and more. SPX Instant Screen Capture is perfect for people that frequently capture applications or part of the screen, since it is completely transparent and does not take up any additional screen space. The program supports BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG formats for saving image files.

My Screen Recorder enables you to record desktop activity to a standard AVI file. The capture can include audio (using your microphone) as well as cursors, menus and anything else you see on your screen. You can capture the entire desktop, or just a selected region. My Screen Recorder can be used to demonstrate and annotate features of a product or software, or for technical instructions. The recordings can be organized in folders for easy reference.

Webpage Thumbnailer enables you to capture screenshots of websites or local HTML/MHTML files. You can enter a list of sites to scan and the program will capture each URL in the batch and save it as image file (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF or BMP) to your computer. The program supports full-size captures and thumbnail images with custom dimensions.

ACA Capture (formerly SuperCapture Standard) allows you to quickly capture screenshots including desktop, web pages, scrolling windows, application menus, DirectX, Direct3D mode games and more. You can configure the program to operate with hotkeys, so screen captures can be done without opening the interface first. In addition, you can apply capture masks, including circular, rectangle and other shapes, manage your recent captures from the explorer-style capture list and more. Captures can optionally include the mouse cursor, or can be automatically send to MS Office applications. The program can also integrate with Internet Explorer, adding several capture options to the right click menu. ACA Capture offers a nice array of features, unfortunately the images can only be saved to JPG, BMP or PNG, not to .GIF format, which is still the most popular format for low color images on the web.

ALLCapture enables you to capture desktop activity in real-time to create an instructional video that can be exported to Flash, MPEG (DVD,VCD,SVCD), Windows Media format or as a standalone player executable. Once you have recorded your video, you can insert comments, highlights, add/remove frames, insert special effects and more. The program supports full-screen capture as well as capture of specific regions. You can choose to record audio (speech and/or background music) while capturing frames, limit the recording time and choose to include or exclude the mouse cursor.

Any Capture Screen is a screen capture and editing tool, that allows you to capture your desktop, active windows, menus and any area in rectangle, ellipse, window, control, custom shapes and more. The captured images can be saved in BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG or TIFF formats as well as copied to the clipboard or printed. The program includes several editing functions, allowing you to modify the captured image (or any other image), resize, rotate, crop, flip and adjust contrast, brightness etc. All screen capture operations can alternatively be performed via keyboard hotkeys.

5 clicks is a very easy-to-use and simple screen capture program. It takes only 5 clicks to start the program, capture an image anywhere on the screen and close the program. You can save the captured image as a PNG, JPEG or BMP file (no GIF support), copy it to the clipboard or send it to your printer. Even though very easy to use, the program is also limited to manual area selection and cannot automatically capture the active Window, or client area as most other screen capture programs. Great if all you need is a basic and speedy way to capture screen content.

Mr. Captor is an advanced screen capturing software, that can capture anything you see on the computer screen, including the entire desktop, various regions, windows, menu, cursors, simple video, frames and colors. It can also capture an entire web page with auto-scrolling, making sure that the full page is captured. Additional features include support for hotkeys, basic image editing and filters, emailing captures and more. Mr. Captor supports GIF, PNG, BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000 and TIFF formats.

SnagIt allows you to capture, manage, manipulate, and print images, text and video. You can capture the entire screen, a window, or any specified selection, and the save it in 23 file formats, print it or send it by email. SnagIt is capable of capturing menus, the entire contents of scrolling windows (e.g web pages), DirectX sources such as games and DOS screens, and desktop animations sequences. It also includes tools for image editing, as well as adjustments of brightness, contrast, hue, sharpness, scale, color reduction and more. Additional features include a thumbnail browser, audio-recording option, MS Office integration and more.

CaptureWizPro is a screen capture program that enables you to capture any part of your PC screen, even tricky items like tool tips, drop-down lists, screen savers, video displays and more. In addition, the included scroll capture tool allows you to make screenshots of an entire web page (or other scrolling areas), even if it extends beyond the edges of your screen. Furthermore, CaptureWizPro allows you to record video clips (AVI) of selected areas or the entire desktop. The program uses a handy capture toolbar that hides along the top of your screen until you need it, and offers quick access to all capture techniques. The screen captures can be saved as GIF, BMP, PNG or JPG file, copied to the clipboard, send by email, or even added to the desktop as a sticky note (cool feature!). Additional features include automatic image storage, thumbnail browser and more.

Capture By George! is a screen capture program that provides an on-screen capture area with a small remote control style control panel. All you have to do is drag and size the square with pixel accuracy to the area you want to capture, and press a button on the remote. Capture By George! only supports selected areas, and cannot automatically capture active windows, client areas, dialogs or other parts of the desktop. Other features include timed capture, options to rotate, scale and crop the captured images. The capture can be saved as GIF, JPG, PNG or BMP file.

Kleptomania allows to capture and process images and text from any (even clipboard-unaware) application. You can copy text onto the clipboard, launch your internet browser or email program for further editing, sum numbers, count a number of words/characters and more. Kleptomania allows you to process text of folder trees, file lists, database reports, text content of messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, visible text of legacy systems, and more. The program does not rely on any data communication scheme behind the scene. It uses OCR and delivers ultimate text capture and processing abilities. You can use Kleptomania as well for any "regular" screenshots, application interfaces etc.

WinCAM 2000 Professional is an easy to use screen recording and editing application, developed for tutorials, training manuals and presentations. It records all screen activities, from the movement of the mouse, the processes of applications, keyboard input to the execution of any programs. WinCAMs object editing tools allow you to insert various shapes of caption boxes, graphics, images, narration, background music, and sound effects in all different layers. In addition, frame-by-frame editing tools will help to make your movie look clean and give it a professional looking cut. The resulting movies can be converted to EXE, WCM and AVI - additional conversion methods and features are available in higher priced editions of the software.

HyperCam is a unique tool that captures the action and sound from any part of Windows and saves it to standard AVI movie files. You can capture cursor movements, menus selections, windows popping up and everything else you see on the screen. HyperCam allows you to pan the recorded area around the screen and can also controlled remotely by automation client software. Useul in preparation of software tutorials, presentations, demonstrations etc.

TurboDemo allows you to create java based software demos that can be played in every modern browser. The product works by capturing screenshots of your desktop (or an area) and then allows you to add comments and sound. TurboDemo does not only capture static screenshots, but also the movement of your mouse. Once you have completed a series of screenshots, they are seamlessly converted into an animated demo, that you can edit as you wish. Great for software demonstrations, online tutorials and more. Trial version creates demos that expire after 2 days.

Wsnap is a screen capture tool that can take snapshots of application windows, selected areas, objects or your entire desktop. The results can be saved in JPG, PNG or GIF format, copied to the clipboard or sent via email. Wsnap supports snapshots of 3D games, Flash animations and Media Player playback, as well as customizable output file names, adding of image watermarks and integrated FTP upload.

HandySnap is a compact and easy to use screen capture utility, that allows to to take screenshots of the current window, a rectangular area, or the entire desktop. In addition, you can add text annotations, insert sprites to mark details (click here, arrows, cursor etc.) and then save the capture in GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF or BMP format (GIF captures are of very poor quality, others are good). The program is not as full featured as others, but allows you to quickly and easily create the most common screen captures with just a few clicks of your mouse.

Easy Screen Capture is a tool for capturing any part of your screen. You can create screen shots from active windows, window objects, selected areas or the entire desktop and save them as bmp, png, gif or jpg files. The program also supports capturing DirectX games, and you can define hotkeys for quick access. The software has a history of performed actions. Easy Screen Capture also includes some basic editing functions and image resizing options. The program has an easy to use interface. Additional features include capture history, capture delay, default saving path and more.

Screen Shot Maker is a screen capture tool, that allows you to capture screenshots of your desktop, windows, regions, application controls and more. You can further edit the screenshots by adding text, shapes, arrows, highlights, and also freely rotate the image or apply several other effects. The result can be saved in GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF and some other formats.

Guangming Html To Image enables you to parse a list of URLs and automatically save a full-size capture of the page in bmp, jpeg, tiff, gif or png format. It supports the capture of ActiveX, Flash, Java and Script content, as well as customizable image width and heights. The program can also create additional thumbnail images of the captured pages. You can enter URLs manually or load a text list (one URL per line) for batch conversion. In addition to online pages. Guangming Html To Image also supports the parsing of local HTML, MHT and TXT files. The trial version adds large watermarks to the captures. Very basic documentation included.

Super Screen Capture enables you to take snapshots of your desktop, application windows, dialogs, desktop regions and fully scrolled web pages. The captures can be saved in BMP, JPG, GIF or PNG format, ans also sent via email or copied to the clipboard. In addition to static screen captures, the program can also record AVI video of your desktop activity, and comes with a built-in sound recorder to include audio with your recordings. All capture options can be accessed via keyboard shortcuts, the tray icon menu or a floating toolbar. Super Screen Capture also includes a few basic editing options, but only for rotation and flipping of images - it does not allow you to resize the captures, nor can you edit or enhance them in any way.

Zoom allows you to view a magnified version of the extended area that is under your mouse cursor. In addition, you can capture and resize those parts, measure lengths and angles and pick color values off the screen.

WinCapture is a full featured screen capture tool, that includes video screen recording and image editing, as well as OCR text capture from Windows dialogs and forms. The program allows you to capture virtually any object, window, menu on your screen, or record video of your desktop activity. WinCapture supports all common capture modes, including selected regions, active windows, scrolling web pages and more. Other features include multiple output formats, icon extraction, on-screen color picker, annotations, delayed captures and more.

Capture Professional is a full featured screen capture tool that captures images and video from menus, controls, single windows, overlapping multiple windows, rectangles, polygons, and ellipses from your desktop. It can automatically scroll your browser to capture entire web pages and capture images from DirectX surfaces, including those found in games and media player applications. Capture Professional edits normal and transparent images using 13 configurable drawing tools and 57 image operations with real-time preview. Video is saved in AVI format, using a codec of your choice. Images and video can also be printed on one or more pages, copied, e-mailed or published directly to the Internet. The screen is printed when the print screen key is pressed. Capture Professional also opens image files and can scan and extract images from executables for viewing and editing. (Demo will add markings to captures).