FastStone Capture is used for creating screenshots and editing them; the built-in simple graphic editor provides viewing and editing of graphic files. It allows you to rotate images, resize, crop fragments, adjust color, and perform other operations.
The capture process can be controlled using the toolbar, system tray, or hotkeys. Settings are supported for capturing the entire screen, the active window, or a selected area. Screenshots of web pages can be taken, even if they are scrolled in the browser. Explanatory notes, captions, watermarks, and pointer arrows can be added to screenshots. Additionally,
FastStone Capture records video files from the monitor screen.
Screenshots can be sent by email, uploaded to a website, generated in Power Point, Word, or printed.
The program supports BMP, JPEG, ICO, GIF, PCX, PNG, JPEG 2000, TGA, TIFF, WMF, and PDF formats.
Main functionality:
- Floating small toolbar for taking screenshots.
- Minimal system resource consumption.
- Support for global hotkeys for instant screenshot capture.
- Set of tools for capturing the entire screen, window, object, freeform or rectangular area with or without scrolling.
- Supports multiple monitors.
- Screenshots from web pages in FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera browsers.
- Destination for the file can be set: clipboard, external editor, or printer.
- Magnifier, color picker.
- Possible to add arrows, text, underlines, and watermarks to screenshots.
- Various effects are supported.
- Cropping, resizing, scaling, and other operations are performed.
- Screenshot editing history is maintained (undo/redo).
Changes in the latest version:
- Improved color quality for 256PNG/GIF.
- Email sending.
- Compatible with Windows Vista.
- Added Reset to the main screen (option available only for multi-monitor systems) in the tray - in the icon menu.
