FastStone Capture 9.9

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2023-02-05 00:00 31869

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FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool. It 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.

It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into highly compressed video files. Other features include global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier and a screen ruler.

FastStone Capture saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats.

FastStone Capture Features:

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
Record screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files (Windows Media Video format). A built-in video editor allows you to draw annotations, apply zoom effects and cut unwanted sections. It even allows you to convert video files to animated gif files.
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

More Features:

Add image caption
Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors …
Undo/Redo
Support tabs that allow you to capture and edit multiple screenshots simultaneously
Support external editors
Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats
Acquire images from scanner
Convert images to a multi-page PDF file
Join images side by side to produce a single image file
Send captured images by email
Capture the screen at user-specified time intervals
Send captured images to Word and PowerPoint documents
Send captured images to a Web (FTP) server
Screen Color Picker
Screen Magnifier
Support multiple monitors
Screen Crosshair
Screen Ruler
Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
Run when Windows starts (optional)
Minimize to System Tray area
Small footprint in memory
And many more …

Changes in FastStone Capture 9.9 (February 03, 2023):

Use MP4 as the default output format for Screen Recorder on Windows 10/11
Added “Convert to MP4” to Screen Recorder. You can use it to convert or resize video files (WMV and MP4) using the new MP4 format
Now Screen Recorder can detect and recover a screen recording from an unexpected Windows shutdown or restart
Enhanced the built-in video editor:
- Added a Title Page tool which allows you to insert title pages anywhere in the video clip
- Added Emoji to the Draw tool
- To trim a video clip, simply click and drag from the beginning or end of the timeline
In Screen Recorder’s Options -> Notifications tab, you can customize the color and size of the control bar
Fixed a position error in zoom mode of Draw tool
Other minor improvements and bug fixes

Changes in FastStone Capture 9.8 (December 22, 2022):

Enhanced Draw tool
- Zoom In / Out in Draw tool from 1% to 5000%
- Double click on an emoji image to popup the emoji list
Enhanced Custom Scroll Mode of Capture Scrolling Window. Now you can capture any part of a scrolling window even without a vertical scroll bar
Added option “If draw objects exist, auto-save a copy in FSC format for re-editing” to Settings -> Editor
Added Save As (Alt+S) command to Editor
The Save (Ctrl+S) command in Editor only prompts for a file name when necessary (i.e. the image does not have a file name)
The Save All (Ctrl+Shift+S) command in Editor only asks for confirmation once to save all the files automatically
In Editor, added Statistics command to the right click menu on selections. This command calculates the total number of pixels and unique colors within the selected area
In Resize tool, added shortcuts for 25% (Ctrl+1), 50% (Ctrl+2), 75% (Ctrl+3) and 200% (Ctrl+4)
Enhanced Screen Ruler
- Added Protractor
- Screen Ruler can be used in Editor mode and Draw mode by pressing Ctrl+Shift+R
When capturing a rectangular or freehand region, press Ctrl+Z to re-select or undo previous step. In Editor, press Ctrl+Z to undo previous step in “Freehand 2” selection mode
Added Auto Date Time Stamp to the list of Output Options. In Editor, you can add a date time stamp to the image by pressing J key
Most icons on capture toolbar are customizable (on/off) in Settings -> Toolbar
Enhanced Screen Recorder:
- When recording full screen, the yellow control bar is always visible but not recorded in the video
- Used icons instead of a drop-down list for selecting audio inputs (microphone and speaker)
- Added a popup menu to the Edit button to Open / Open Last File Location / Play Last File
Many other minor improvements and bug fixes