FastStone Capture 7.7

An image viewer, editor and screen capturer

FastStone Capture is a tool that you can use to take snapshots, record the screen, as well as view and edit images.

The interface of the program is based on a small toolbar from which you can capture the active window, window or object, rectangular or freehand region, full screen, scrolling window or fixed region.

When it comes to recording the screen, you can set the recording area to window or object, rectangular region or full screen (optionally without the taskbar).

In addition, you can configure settings when it comes to video (e.g. set the frame rate, enable compact mode), audio (record audio and mouse click sounds), the hotkey (to stop the recording) and output files (e.g. set the file name template).

Furthermore, you can set FastStone Capture to copy the output image to the editor, clipboard, file, printer, email, Word, PowerPoint or FTP, as well as enable auto caption, auto edge or watermark and to include the mouse pointer.

In the Editor you can rotate, flip or resize the image, expand the canvas or set its size, draw lines or text, enter a caption, adjust colors (e.g. brightness, contrast, gamma), use a color picker, apply filters (e.g. grayscale, sepia, oil painting, sketch, sharpen, blur), edit with external editors, and more.

The program uses a very low amount of system resources. includes a comprehensive help file with snapshots and didn't cause us any problems during our tests. Excluding the interface which could use some minor improvements, we strongly recommend FastStone Capture to all users.

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility.

FastStone Capture allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web-pages.

FastStone Capture has innovative features such as floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, text annotation, resizing, printing, cropping, emailing.

The application has an intuitive interface and prompts hint boxes whenever you perform complex capturing tasks.

NOTE: Built-in screen video recorder works only on Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit), Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit).

Here are some key features of "FastStone Capture":

• A small handy Capture Panel that provides quick access to its capture tools and output options
• Global hotkeys to activate screen capturing instantly
• Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and scrolling windows/web pages
• Capture multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus
• Options to specify output destination (internal editor, clipboard, file, printer ...)
• Draw annotation objects such as texts, arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles and circles
• Apply effects such as drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge
• Add image caption
• Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors ...
• Undo/Redo
• Support external editors
• Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats
• Send captured images by email
• Send captured images to Word and PowerPoint documents
• Send captured images to a Web (FTP) server
• Record screen activities and sound into video files
• Screen Color Picker
• Screen Magnifier
• Screen Ruler
• Support multiple monitors
• Run when Windows starts (optional)
• Minimize to System Tray area
• Small footprint in memory

Requirements:

• 256MB RAM
• 10MB space in hard drive

Limitations:

• 30 days trial
• Nag screen

What's New in This Release: 

• Now you can use drag-and-drop to move (copy when Ctrl key is down) selected area
• Added two new selection methods
• Added Undo/Redo buttons on the menu bar of the editor
• Added Spotlight effect
• Many small improvements and bug fixes
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Publisher	:	FastStone Soft
License	:	Trial / $19.95 USD
Size/OS:	:	2.4 MB / Windows All
Download	:	FastStone Capture 7.7