FastStone Capture 10.8
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 10.7 (2024-08-20):
- Added “Close Saved Tabs” (Ctrl+Q) to “Tabs” menu in the editor
- Added a drop-down history list to “Settings” -> “Auto Save” -> “Output folder”
- Increased blur effect for Spotlight
- Enhanced “Pin to Screen”
- Added “Auto-Open Draw Mode” option
- Added “Press Enter to” (Copy and Close, Save and Close, none) option
- Added “Auto-Open Draw Mode” option
- Other improvements and bug fixes
Changes in FastStone Capture 10.6 (2024-07-11):
- You can now add Steps(1,2,3…) in “Draw Mode” of “Pin to Screen”
- Added a right click menu to title area of capture toolbar
- Enhanced “Capture Text” to process larger (more than 10000×10000 pixels) images
- Enhanced “Screen Recorder”
- Added “Set computer to sleep mode after recording is complete” option to scheduled (via a timer) screen recordings
- Added right click menu to Microphone and Webcam icons
- If mouse cursor is invisible in screen video, prevent cursor highlighter from showing
- Added “Set computer to sleep mode after recording is complete” option to scheduled (via a timer) screen recordings
- Made other small improvements and bug fixes
Changes in FastStone Capture 10.5 (2024-05-22):
- Added “Pin to Screen“. This feature allows you to pin and annotate screenshots on top of other windows, like sticky notes. Benefits include:
- Reference Convenience: If you’re working on a task that requires you to refer back to a screenshot frequently, having it pinned on your screen could save you from switching windows or applications constantly.
- Efficient Comparisons: When you need to compare data between applications, pinning a screenshot can make it easier to view both sets simultaneously without needing a second monitor.
- Visual Reminders: Pinned captures can serve as visual reminders for tasks that need to be completed, or information that needs attention, reducing the chance of forgetting important details.
- Reference Convenience: If you’re working on a task that requires you to refer back to a screenshot frequently, having it pinned on your screen could save you from switching windows or applications constantly.
- Added “Capture Text”. Instead of manually typing text from a screenshot, this feature can extract the text and make it editable instantly, saving time and effort. It requires Windows 10/11.
- Made other improvements and bug fixes
Homepage – https://www.faststone.org
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
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