Surely everyone knows the PrintScreen key on the computer keyboard, which allows you to take screenshots. Using it is not difficult, because you just have to hold it and then hold down the combination Ctrl + V in any graphics editor and paste the screen image previously saved on the clipboard .
However, even with this seemingly easy way to obtain an image by saving the image displayed on the screen, many users try to find even easier ways that can lead to the same result. In order to meet consumer demand, developers have created programs for taking screenshots. It’s time to introduce some of them to the readers of this article.
Picpick
This program for taking screenshots was to this day remains free and open for download by all users. It is very simple and easy to use, since it combines a conventional graphics editor and utility that provides the capture of images from a computer monitor. The main features of this program include the fact that it is able to work with multiple images simultaneously. In addition, the program allows you to resize the resulting images.
ScreenshotCaptor
ScreenshotCaptor - like PicPick, a free program for taking screenshots. It supports several modes: "Windows object", "active window" and "selected fragment". In addition, it is able to automatically number the stored images. It is also important that when you close the program, it does not reset the settings.
Faststone capture
This program helps to create screenshots, and also allows you to simultaneously edit them. Like the previous program for taking screenshots, FastStone Capture is available for free and anyone can use it.
In addition to being a screenshot program, FastStone Capture is a simple graphical editor that allows you to rotate an image, cut out a specific fragment of it, or slightly change the color and saturation of an image. In addition, the program can offer a lot of other pleasant things.
Screen shot
This program for taking screenshots is more advanced than the above. Its difference lies in the fact that in addition to creating screenshots, it is capable of recording video. The video format is AVI, which indicates the high quality of future recordings.
This program allows you to define the so-called hot keys.
Screen Shot can guarantee not only high-quality video recording, but also high-quality screenshots that can be taken in several formats: JPEG, TIFF, BMP and PNG.
Free Screen Video Recorder
This program, like the previous one, allows its users to create videos by recording them from a computer monitor. In addition, this is another program for taking screenshots in a rather high quality. As for the formats of the files created by the program, the video is also recorded in AVI format, and the images are in JPEG, TGA, BMP, PNG and GIF, which was not subject to the previous program.
An additional advantage of Free Screen Video Recorder is that right from the window of this program it is possible to print newly created screenshots. In addition, in the program itself, elementary editing of images is possible: rotation, cropping, changing the tone, color, saturation, etc.
As you can see, dear readers, there are a lot of ideas, a lot of programs. It remains only to try at least one of them in practice and your fate will be much easier - you can create screenshots quickly and without experiencing unnecessary difficulties. From then on, you will be able to forget for a long time about what the PrintScreen button is, by clicking which you must return to the graphics editor in order to insert an image into it and then process it. All of the above programs are the quality of the received files and the maximum speed of their creation.