Three Programs to Help You Capture Screens Easily

Capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows.

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WinSnap

WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. Standard features include easy capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows.



WinSnap supports a variety of image formats and has advanced auto-save features.

- Non-rectangular shapes and rounded corners
- Unique 'Application' capture mode
- Region selection
- Watermarks
- Thumbnails and scale option
- Pulldown menus for tutorials
- Additional effects
- Summary

CamStudio

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) .



- create demonstration videos for any software program
- create how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
- create video tutorials for school or college class
- record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
- create video-based information products you can sell
- record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

SnagIt

SnagIt - Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later.



Snagit comes with eleven preset buttons that make screen capture a cinch! Capture a region of your screen, text from a window, the contents of a tall page that scrolls, all the images on a Web page, you get the idea.

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