ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 30 different file hosting services such as Imgur, FTP, Dropbox, Mega and Pastebin.
User can select any or all of these tasks to be automatically run after each screen capture:
- Add image effects: User can choose from over 37 image effects and apply multiple image effects and apply them to an image.
- Add watermark: Adds customizable text/image watermark to image.
- Annotate image: Using Greenshot image editor to annotate image.
- Copy image to clipboard: Copies image to clipboard.
- Print image: Be able to print images with printer device.
- Save image to file: Saves image as file with user’s preferred image format.
- Save image to file as: Shows file dialog before saving so user can select where to write file to.
- Save thumbnail image to file: Saves resized image as file.
- Copy file to clipboard: Copies image file to clipboard.
- ...and more.
Additional tools to make certain tasks more efficient:
- Screen color picker: As the name suggests, allows user to retrieve the color from anywhere on the screen and provide values of Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and RGB.
- Ruler: Allows user to get X, Y, width, height, distance and angle information on screen.
- FTP client: Opens a basic FTP client user interface for the currently configured FTP account.
- Hash check: Allows user to check/compare file hash values.
- Index folder: Allows user to share the index of a folder contents by uploading the index of the selected folder as text, html or xml.
- Image editor: Based on Greenshot image editor. It offers functions such as ability to add annotations, highlighting or obfuscations to the screenshot.
- Image effects: Allows to apply over 37 different image effects with their own settings to image. Edited images can be saved in PNG or other formats.
- Monitor test: Allows user to render different colors on the screen which provides user the opportunity to test for bleeding and dead pixels on LCD monitors.
- DNS changer: Allows user to quickly change computer DNS settings with popular DNS servers such as Google DNS.
- QR code: Open QR code window which user can enter text to get QR code of it. User can copy QR code image to user’s clipboard or save as file.
- Tweet message: Allows user to post message to Twitter.
ShareX 11.1.0 release notes:
Region capture related changes
- Tab key or Mouse 4 button will swap between last region tool and last annotation tool
- Redesigned Task settings -> Region capture tab to be more user friendly
- All mouse actions (except left click) will be configurable from Task settings -> Region capture that way you can get same behavior as old region capture; for example, right click to cancel capture
- Removed AnnotationEnabled setting because you can now have full control on each mouse actions
- Region capture will remember last used region tool and open with it selected
- Last used annotation tool will be also remembered so that way when you swap tools it will select last used annotation tool
- When drawing tool is selected cursor will show border color and size, this is also useful to know is current tool is region rectangle or drawing rectangle
- Allow drawing info text near cursor when magnifier is not enabled
- When creating region you can hold Ctrl key to change position of region
- When region is selected Ctrl key will move region instead of Shift for consistency with region create moving
- Holding Shift will increase region resize or move speed by 10px
- Holding Alt will allow to resize region from bottom right instead of top left
- Menu key will open options menu
- Double clicking when multi region mode enabled won"t close it when there is no region to be captured
- When creating region holding Alt key will more accurately and with better performance calculate close regions to snap
- Added previous Region capture (Annotation) back as hotkey only which will be called as Region capture (Simple annotate) in hotkey settings
Other changes:
- Added puush file uploader
- Added Google Drive direct link option (by @mihe)
- Added option to remember last drawing mode in Greenshot image editor settings window (by @campbeb)
- Scale Greenshot image editor window size when icons are larger than default (by @campbeb)
- Added option to maximize the Greenshot image editor window when it is larger than working area (by @campbeb)
- In SFTP upload if file with same name is exist, truncate file before uploading
- After capture tasks -> Show file in explorer and in other places where folder need to be opened with file, it will use already open Windows Explorer window instead of re opening new one (by @dannoe)
- Hotkey settings and quick task menu reset to default buttons will ask for confirmation (by @dannoe)
- Implemented Dropbox API v2
- Option to use file extension for Hastebin syntax highlighting
Download: ShareX 11.1.0 | Portable | ~5.0 MB (Open Source)
View: ShareX Home Page