FastStone Capture 9.4

FastStone Capture

FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featuredscreen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.

FastStone Capture saves images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats.

FastStone Capture also allows you to record screen activities, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed WMV video files (Windows Media Video format). A built-in video editor allows you to draw annotations, apply zoom effects and cut unwanted sections. It even allows you to convert video files to animated gif files.

FastStone Capture Annotation

FastStone Capture features:

A small handy Capture Panel that provides quick access to its capture tools and output options
Global hotkeys to activate screen capturing instantly
Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and scrolling windows/web pages
Capture multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus
Record screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files (Windows Media Video format). A built-in video editor allows you to draw annotations, apply zoom effects and cut unwanted sections. It even allows you to convert video files to animated gif files.
Options to specify output destination (internal editor, clipboard, file, printer ...)
Draw annotation objects such as texts, arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles and circles
Apply effects such as drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge
Add image caption
Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors ...
Undo/Redo
Support tabs that allow you to capture and edit multiple screenshots simultaneously
Support external editors
Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats
Acquire images from scanner
Convert images to a multi-page PDF file
Join images side by side to produce a single image file
Send captured images by email
Send captured images to Word and PowerPoint documents
Send captured images to a Web (FTP) server
Screen Color Picker
Screen Magnifier
Screen Crosshair
Screen Ruler
Support multiple monitors
Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
Run when Windows starts (optional)
Minimize to System Tray area
Small footprint in memory
And many more ...

FastStone Capture 9.4 changelog:

Added OneNote as an output option
Added 3 options to Editor tab of Settings:
"Set default tool in Draw"
"Highlight active tab"
"Use workspaces to group tabs". This option allows you to organize and group captured images (tabs) in multiple workspaces. Each workspace remembers its last-used folder and works like a separate instance of FastStone Editor
Added "Stay on Screen" and "Minimize to System Tray" options to "Run when Windows starts"
Added "Send to New Tab" (Alt+C) to duplicate the current tab as a new tab
Added a count down text box to "Delay before Capture"
Added Apply button to Settings window
Added 2 icons (left/right clicks) to "Insert Mouse Pointer" in Draw tool
Enhanced "Save As" and "Open" dialogs:
Added "Hold Alt key to peek behind this window" option to "Save As" dialog
Resizable
Size and position are kept for next use
Added "Delay before showing" option (click [...] in Toolbar tab of Settings) for the hidden toolbar
Added preview option to "Spotlight" effect
Added a right-click menu to "Capture Fixed-Size Region"
Added Contrast and Gamma auto-adjustment to "Acquire Images from Scanner". Enhanced the De-skew algorithm
Added tips for the toolbar buttons of FastStone Editor
In Draw tool, press Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle through drawing tools
Enhanced "Screen Color Picker". After picking a screen color, click the "New" color box to fine tune the color
Enhanced Print dialog. Now you can:
Print multiple images in batch mode
Print file name in the header area
Enhanced Edge/Watermark. Watermark image is resizable
Enhanced "Make Background Transparent" (Ctrl+T) by adding 3 options: Preview, Tolerance and Anti-aliased
Enhanced "Fill with Color" in Draw tool by adding 2 options: Tolerance and Transparent Fill
Optimized loading speed of Draw tool. Now it re-opens much faster
Many other minor improvements and bug fixes