All You Need For Making Awesome Screenshots. As an active blogger I need to make multiple screenshots daily. Screenshots help me visualize my posts and make them easier to understand. Screenshots are “infographics” of today’s web – they make information easier to understand and guides easier to follow. You’ll see them on each and every blog – no wonder screen capturing applications are so numerous. In fact, screen capture tools are so plenty that you may easily get lost which one to choose and why. That’s why I decided to make a simplified guide on which features to look for and which tools I personally find useful.
How To Make Funny “fake” Screenshots SourceEditor is a nifty FireFox plugin that allows you to easily edit any page. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Another FireFox addon that can do the same is feature-rich Web Developer FireFox extension but it requires at least some HTML knowledge. How To Take Full Page Screenshot PageSaver FireFox addon. We have previously reviewed Paparazzi! How to Take Partial Screenshots. How to take easy screenshots with Lightscreen Portable. Screen capturing is basically taking a snapshot of your desktop. There are several reasons you may need the ability to do this. First of all, you may be getting error messages that you need someone’s help with. You know how it is, when the tech is there looking for the issue, the messages never come back.
Well, grab a shot the next time so you have something to show. Secondly, you may be someone putting together a tutorial on how to do something, like how to use a specific piece of software. As you can also tell from reading articles here is that there are a few different software options when you want to take screenshots. This article is about the tool I use to take screenshots, Lightscreen Portable. Lightscreen Portable is how it sounds, light. You’ll then be offered four options, three of which having to do with what you want a snap shot of. If you click on the “Options” button, you can modify some settings. Click on the “Options” tab and you’ll get – guess what – more options!
Screenshoter. ScreenHunter. How to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows: 10 steps. Screengrab. ScreenSnapr. Screenjelly. How to publish screenshot images on Twitter. Learn how to share screenshot images of web pages, error messages or anything else on your desktop screen on to your Twitter account quickly and effortlessly. Whether you need help with an error message or just want to show off your new desktop wallpaper, Twitter can be a good place to share all those screenshot images with the world. Now capturing screenshots of anything on your desktop screen is easy but let’s explore a couple of ways that will enable you publish these screenshot images on to your Twitter account as a tweet quickly and effortlessly.
TechSmith Jing (Mac & Windows) With TechSmith Jing, you can quickly grab a screenshot, add some text notes or annotate your image with arrows and basic shapes. Once you are done editing, the image gets uploaded to your free screencast.com account and the URL is automatically copied to the clipboard so you can easily paste that in your tweets. That’s one way of doing things but let me share another Jing trick here. Kwout (Web Based) Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image shar.
How to share screen shots with ScrnShots. Par Vincent Absous le 2 octobre 2008 à 07:20 ScrnShots appréhende différemment la capture d'écran. Logé dans la Barre des menus de Mac OS X, ScrnShots offre la possibilité de prendre un instantané d'une partie de l'écran, d'une fenêtre complète ou de tout l'écran. Jusqu'ici, rien de neuf par rapport à ce qu'offre déjà le système d'Apple. La capture réalisée, on peut la compléter d'une description, de tags et la créditer en précisant l'adresse où elle a été réalisée. [ScrnShots] Upload a Screenshot from Greg Bell on Vimeo. Jing. Screen Recorder Snagit's screen recorder lets you quickly record yourself working through steps. Or grab individual frames out of the recorded video.
Save your video file as an mp4 or animated GIF. Record Audio Include audio in your videos from either a microphone or your computer's system audio. Record Camera Record your screen or camera — or record them both at the same time with picture-in-picture to add a personal touch. Cloud Library Find, open, and edit captures fluidly as you move between computers (Windows or Mac), when they are synced via the cloud provider of your choice.
Animated GIFs Turn any short recording (.mp4) into an animated GIF, and quickly add it to a website, document, or chat. Trim Video Clips Remove any unwanted sections from your screen recordings. Create Video from Images Talk and draw over a series of screenshots to create a quick “how-to” video or GIF. All-in-One Capture Capture your entire desktop, a region, a window, or a scrolling screen. Panoramic Scrolling Capture. How to choose an image format (JPG, PNG or GIF) for screenshots. JPG, PNG or GIF – This guide will help you pick the best image format for your screen captures and emails while keeping the file size relatively small. The quality of screenshot images and illustrations used on your website do make a difference.
You can use the good-old Print Screen key or any of the professional screen capture tools to grab your screenshots but the more important factor is that the output image should be sharp and that the file size be well within a reasonable limit. The three most popular image formats for sharing screen captures on the web are PNG, JPG (JPEG) and GIF.
There are other image formats like SVG and BMP but JPG/PNG/GIF are the most widely supported file formats and they can be rendered across all email clients and web browsers. Here’s a quick guide to help you decide the right image format for your screenshots. If you need to screen capture a program window on your screen, dialog boxes, splash screens or Google Maps, use the PNG format. Bug Shooting. How to share files and screenshots instantly with Clip2Net. How to capture great looking screenshots. SnagIt is our favorite screen capture program. We look at some incredibly useful features of SnagIt to help you get more out of the program. We also share our favorite SnagIt tips and tricks. SnagIt has always been the most powerful screen capture program for Windows but its usage may have touched an all-time high ever since TechSmith released the full licensed version of SnagIt for free – that promotion is still active.
SnagIt screen capture program is more than just a replacement of your PrtScrn key – it can help you record destkop movies, leech websites, add image watermarks, extract text from dialogs and much more. 1. Use SnagIt to Make Short Movies (Screencasts) You don’t need a copy of Camtasia Studio to capture that 30 second movie of your desktop as SnagIt can record small desktop videos very easily. 2. SnagIt can capture extremely long web pages that extend several pages (like a long conversation thread on Gmail or a one-page print version of some NY Times story). 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. InstantShot. InstantShot! Do you often use screenshot software and feel that something is missing? Don't you feel like they're not so efficient and that they are way too complicated? Tired of long menus? If you answered "yes" to one or more questions, InstantShot! Is the software for you! InstantShot! A Japanese translation of this page is available at this site. . ~ About InstantShot!
What are the features of InstantShot! InstantShot! How does InstantShot! InstantShot! How can I capture a portion of screen? Simply select from the menu the option "Shoot inside a rect" or directly the format you want to save to from the submenu. (NEW) If you want to later modify the rectangle, keep Shift pressed while releasing the mouse in the initial selection or enable the option "Always modify rectangles" in the preferences: resize the rectangle from its angles or drag it around; when you are ready, double click inside the rectangle to capture the contents.
Can I grab the picture of an application window? Yes! Yes! Best4c.