Tip #2814 - Gadwin Printscreen
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Gadwin
Printscreen
I use screenshots
for everything. I use them in articles to illustrate some element of what
I am discussing and they are also great for helping to describe and fix
technical support issues. There is almost no limit to the usefulness of
screenshots. However, I wish I could say the same for the integrated screen
capture application that is included with the Windows operating systems.
Windows' printscreen
does its job, but this lack luster application doesn’t give you
any tools or any way to manage your screenshots. Instead, you have to
rely on other programs to pick up the slack. With the traditional Windows
screen capture, you had to open up an outside image editing tool in order
to save the captured screen . This can become tedious when you are doing
something that requires a lot of screenshots, especially considering you
can only take one screenshot at a time with Windows.
Well, if you like to take screenshots like this guy does, let me introduce
Printscreen from Gadwin.
You’ll never look at printscreen the same way again. Gadwin
Printscreen gives you options that should have been in the Windows
version, but wasn’t. It has tools and options that make the whole
process quicker and at the same time, more flexible. Now, doesn’t
that sound good?! For example, there’s no need to capture the whole
screen. With this week's download, you can choose from a number of options
that allow you to customize you screenshots. You can capture the mouse
or not, you can have the screenshot automatically downloaded to a predetermined
folder, you can capture just what you want from the screen, etc. With
Gadwin, you have complete control.
Here’s a list
of some of the great features Gadwin Printscreen brings to the table:
1. Change hotkey configuration.
2. View screen captures
in a preview window and magnify the image.
3. Can completely
customize the screen capture focus, whether it be the current window,
the whole screen or you can even draw a box around the area you want to
be captured. In result, cropping your screenshot before it’s even
taken.
4. Capture screens
can be sent to a number of different locations at the same time:
- Directly to a file.
- Send via e-mail
to someone.
- You can send a
captured screen to the printer for a fast print.
- You can even send
it to the clipboard.
5. Can edit any screenshot’s
file name either manually or automatically.
6. You can change
the capture directory.
7. Can set a default
program to use for editing the images.
8. Can save the screenshots
as one of five different image types: .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif, .tga.
9. You can also resize
and change an image to grayscale, input a drop shadow, among other things
from within the preview pane.
Gadwin Printscreen
is everything that the Windows clipboard is not and that’s a good
thing. So, you can stick with the old way of taking screenshots or step
up to the Gadwin Printscreen way and take control of your screen captures.
The choice is yours!
You can download Gadwin
Printscreen here.
System Requirements:
98/Me/2000/2003/XP
or Windows NT 4.0SP6. If you are running any of these operating systems
and have a Windows compatible mouse or pointing device, your system has
already met all the requirements necessary to run Gadwin Printscreen.
~ Chad Stelnicki
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