Screen Capture

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Aqua Deskperience enables you to capture text from anywhere on the screen, even text where copy/paste is normally disabled as in message boxes, file lists and other Windows objects - if you can see it, you can copy it. The captured text can be automatically converted, printed, translated, send by email, and even spell-checked. You can also capture sections of the desktop as image files. Additional features include integrated web search for captured text, rich text editing, custom menu items and more.

Capture Eze Pro is the Professional Screen Capture utility with support for multiple image capture and printing. Automatic start options allow predefined settings, printing of up to 6 images per page, screen to printer color reassignment, time-stamps, user defined text, delayed captures, and programmable 1 key operation. This professional utility allows the creation of high-resolution printer based TIFF files for quality documentation. And with support for JPEG, BMP, and over a dozen more file formats, CaptureEze Pro is the perfect file converter. Intelligent Sizing makes great Web Graphics and Power Point images, and managing your graphics library is a breeze with features that let you print catalogs with 1-36 images and selected detail information for each one.

Just Screenshots allows you to turn ordinary software product screenshots into cool looking 3D masterpieces. Let your product web page stand out! The program lets you to visually bring out the best in your application by presenting it in a unique way. You can adjust the perspective, direction, shadow, size and much more. Additional features include image masking, arrow objects, image effects, and enhanced captions.

Screenshot Captor is a screen capture tool that offers some unique features in addition to the standard screenshot options. You can capture active windows, selected regions, fixed regions, or the entire desktop. The capture can then be enhanced with several blur and shadow effects to emphasize parts of the capture, and you can also add a drop shadow to the entire image. Additional features include automatic saving of files, support for external tools, capture of scrolling pages and more. Screenshot Captor can save images in gif, png, jpg, tiff and other formats.

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, keyboard shortcuts and more. WinSnap can save images in PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF and JPG format.

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.

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.

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.

BB FlashBack is a Windows screen recorder program, that enables you to capture desktop activity in real-time, like a movie, and then export it to Flash, AVI or standalone EXE file. You can also edit the movie, add annotations which allows users to create and edit movies of their own desktop activity. Movies can be exported to Flash, WMV and AVI and can include sound and annotations. The program is easy to use, and requires little or no technical expertise - just click record and stop when you are done. BB FlashBack is not as sophisticated as the competition, but it costs a good deal less and produces very good results.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MyScreen is a screen annotation and capture program that enables you to create enhanced screen captures, using various annotation styles to highlight or document selected details. It allows you to draw directly on your desktop, use highlighters to mark text, add text, arrows and other shapes. You can also darken or brighten selected areas of the capture, convert them to grayscale, clone portions of the desktop into other areas and more. The resulting image can be saved in popular formats, including GIF, JPG, and PNG and automatically be sent as email attachment. The program is designed for tech support, software demonstrations and similar projects.

Flash 32 allows you to capture a portion of the screen (any shape, any size), an individual window component, an entire window or a full screen. Capture from files (exe, dll, ani, cur, bmp, ico, icl...), from the clipboard, include the cursor or not, or even another cursor. Captures can be saved in a wide variety of image formats (111 different, including jpeg, gif, tif, tga, eps, vrml, png, pcd, psd...) You can even capture images from the Internet cache, from webcams all over the Internet. Other features include image resizing, cropping, filters, color adjustment, definable hotkeys, automated captures, printing, animation production (avi, mpeg, fli, flc). Flash 32 produces buttons, screen savers, animated cursors, wallpapers, desktop themes, windows logos and more

JotSmart is a multimedia enhanced screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture any information from your desktop or any software, annotate this information with graphic highlights, text notes and even add voice messages. Then, with one button click, send this annotated information to your e-mail program. Your marked-up information will appear directly embedded (optional as attachment) in a new message. You can add additional text messages, specify recipients and send the message on it's way. JotSmart creates files that can be viewed, played and edited with most standard graphics and audio software.

Ashampoo Snap enables you to capture anything on your desktop, including full motion videos. The program offers a unique interface with retracting toolbars and full-screen editing of your captures. It supports capture of selected windows or desktop areas, as well as scrolling web pages and freestyle desktop regions. You can also capture desktop activity to a video file (.wmv) and record video playback from media players or streaming webcasts. The program offers a variety of editing options that allow you to add shapes, arrows, highlighted areas and text annotations to your snapshots. Other features include support for audio annotations via microphone, on-the-fly video encoding (.wmv), automatic file name generation, multi-capture mode and more. Ashampoo Snap 3 supports PNG, JPG, BMP and PDF format for image snapshots and WMV for video captures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Easy Video Capture is a tool for recording screen activity to an AVI video file. It supports recording of video, audio and the cursor and you can choose any available audio codec installed on your computer. The program allows you to record a select area (indicated by an on-screen frame), the entire desktop or individual windows. Additional features include enhanced mouse click effect, hotkey support, text overlay and more.

Miraplacid Screen Capture lets you save screenshots to JPEG, PDF, TIFF, PNG, BMP and TGA image files, or it can directly send them to your paper printer. It uses the default Print Screen, and allows you to specify which action to take when the PrtScreen button is pressed. You can preview the captured image, change color settings, size and more, then save it in the format of your choice. The screen capture features only offer full screen and active window capture and it lacks support for GIF images. However the option to save as PDF file as well as the enhanced printer support are not often found in screen capture tools.

SCREEN2SWF is a screen recorder that enables you to create Flash video tutorials and presentations by capturing the activity on your desktop and adding optional audio and text annotations. You can choose to capture your entire desktop or just the activity in a selected area, and also set the capture speed (fps) to up t0 30 frames per second. Other features include automatic mouse-click highlighting, frame optimizations and several frame effects (zoom, fading). The resulting movie can be exported to AVI video, SWF format for web publishing or as standalone (.exe) player.

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.

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.

AAA Screen Capture is a utility for capturing screenshots of active windows, buttons, regions, or other. The program provides an easy to use interface that displays the current capture as well as a history of previous screenshots. Captures can be initiated via the menu or a hotkey. It can output to JPEG, GIF or BMP format.

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. Useful if all you need is a basic and speedy way to capture screen content.

Capture View is a simple screen capture program with a convenient see-through interface that allows you to position the application over the area you want to capture, providing you with a real-time preview of the screenshot. Clicking a button will capture a snapshot of the area and add it to a list of thumbnails that makes it easy to manage multiple captures. The images can be saved in JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP format.

Easyscreen is a simple screen capture tool, that allows you to save screenshot in JPG format, or send them directly to the printer. In addition, you can add custom text or the current date to the captured image. It supports capture of dialog elements such as pull-down menus and tool bars, as well as delayed captures and batch conversion to JPEG. The program is limited to JPG and BMP format.

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.