FastStone Capture 9.8

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 9.8 changelog:

Enhanced Draw tool
Zoom In / Out in Draw tool from 1% to 5000%
Double click on an emoji image to popup the emoji list
Enhanced Custom Scroll Mode of Capture Scrolling Window. Now you can capture any part of a scrolling window even without a vertical scroll bar
Added option "If draw objects exist, auto-save a copy in FSC format for re-editing" to Settings -> Editor
Added Save As (Alt+S) command to Editor
The Save (Ctrl+S) command in Editor only prompts for a file name when necessary (i.e. the image does not have a file name)
The Save All (Ctrl+Shift+S) command in Editor only asks for confirmation once to save all the files automatically
In Editor, added Statistics command to the right click menu on selections. This command calculates the total number of pixels and unique colors within the selected area
In Resize tool, added shortcuts for 25% (Ctrl+1), 50% (Ctrl+2), 75% (Ctrl+3) and 200% (Ctrl+4)
Enhanced Screen Ruler
Added Protractor
Screen Ruler can be used in Editor mode and Draw mode by pressing Ctrl+Shift+R
When capturing a rectangular or freehand region, press Ctrl+Z to re-select or undo previous step. In Editor, press Ctrl+Z to undo previous step in "Freehand 2" selection mode
Added Auto Date Time Stamp to the list of Output Options. In Editor, you can add a date time stamp to the image by pressing J key
Most icons on capture toolbar are customizable (on/off) in Settings -> Toolbar
Enhanced Screen Recorder:
When recording full screen, the yellow control bar is always visible but not recorded in the video
Used icons instead of a drop-down list for selecting audio inputs (microphone and speaker)
Added a popup menu to the Edit button to Open / Open Last File Location / Play Last File
Many other minor improvements and bug fixes