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.
Version 11.8.0 changelog:
- Added “News” button to main window which will show new updates or announcements
- If after capture task “Annotate image” is selected and there are no annotations applied in region capture, the annotation window will open automatically after region selection, which will allow users to annotate after region selection similar to previous ShareX versions
- Added “Crop” tool, which is not available when in region capture mode
- Added “Image (Screen)” tool, which allows to duplicate area from the screen to move to a different position
- Tip: You can use this tool to create an inverse blur highlighting effect. First blur the part of the area which should become the background, then use this tool to exclude the area that should not be blurred from the rest of the image.
- Added disable animations option to region capture options menu
- Region animation speed is now slightly faster
- Changed toolbar highlight animation to not look like a progress bar
- In region capture when using multi region, non active regions will use static ant border instead of blinking border
- PersonalPath.cfg file which stores custom personal folder path will be saved to Documents\ShareX instead of %localappdata%\ShareX folder and old file will be automatically migrated to new location
- Tray icon progress animation changes
- FTP settings UI remade to be more user friendly [full release notes]
Download: ShareX 11.8.0 | Portable | ~5.0 MB (Open Source)
View: ShareX Home Page