It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into highly compressed video files. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects, and much more. You can choose to send captures to the editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word/PowerPoint document, or upload them to your website. This can include windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular and freehand regions, and even scrolling windows or web pages.

Verdict:įastStone Capture can grab anything you need, process it quickly via a powerful editor, and adds unusual extras like video capture and PDF export, all while keeping its demands on your system resources to the absolute minimum.FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to capture and annotate anything on the screen easily. Please note, while FastStone Capture is a commercial product, what you're buying is a lifetime licence: all future updates are yours for free. Yet the program remains amazingly compact, consuming under 500KB when running in the background, and very little more even when it's active. There are stacks of extras everywhere you look: a colour picker, screen magnifier, screen ruler, multi-monitor support, and more. Here you can crop, rotate or resize an image, sharpen it, tweak brightness or colours, add lines, shapes, highlights, watermarks and more.īut if you don't need any processing then you can tell FastStone Capture to despatch your images directly to files (the program is able to generate file names automatically), the clipboard your printer, emails, Word or PowerPoint documents, and more. The program comes with a host of capture types, for instance: it can grab the full screen, the currently active window, a rectangular region of the screen, freehand or fixed-sized regions, even a scrolling window, perfect for obtaining an image of a lengthy web page.Īnd if an image isn't enough, then FastStone Capture can also record on-screen activity, complete with sound, and save it as a video or animated GIF.īy default your captures will be sent to the FastStone editor. FastStone is a lightweight, yet amazingly versatile screen capture tool that allows you to capture and annotate just about anything you might need.

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