Greenshot
Greenshot is a powerful and complete screen capture utility that offers among its features support for the most popular image formats plus a wide range of tools to optimize your images.
It has an icon in the system tray, and with a single right click on the icon you can select the type of image you want to capture.
Systray Icon Context Menu:
You can use it to obtain a full screen, a region of it or an active window. Before capturing the desired image, you can configure the program to perform different tasks, for example, open an image editor to modify our screenshots, insert texts and even effects.
Preferences:
The program can also be set to copy images to the clipboard, send them directly to the printer, or save screenshots automatically in any of the four graphic formats supported (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP), allowing you to predefine a destination folder. The program is really small in size, only 395KB, what translates into low system and memory resources consumption. Besides, it really works more efficiently than some other tools of this kind. What is more, Greenshot is an open source program that is available totally for free!.
“Greenshot is a free, open source and portable software that can be used to take screenshots quickly and add annotations to it.”
Features:
- Create complete or partial screenshots quickly.
- Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
- Send the screenshot to a file, the clipboard, a printer or as e-mail attachment.
- Easy to understand and configurable.
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Download – Translations:
If you want to use Greenshot in another language, simply download the appropriate language file on this link http://getgreenshot.org/downloads/ and save it to the “Languages” subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory.
Note: English and German language files are included in the program by default. -
Greenshot – Portable Edition:
Greenshot is also available in a Portable Edition and can be obtained HERE
OS requirements:
Win XP/Vista/Win 7
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