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A good screen capture tool is pretty much an essential Windows accessory, and Microsoft's built-in Snipping Tool does a pretty good job, though it's a bit basic and also awkward to use at times. Capture View from GXDevelopment is indeed a good screen capture tool that can also capture directory contents, menus, pop-ups, and even running applications whether they're shown, hidden, or minimized. It has some useful extras, such as a timer delay feature and a suite of frequently used image-editing tools like cropping, resizing, and watermarking tools and grayscale conversion. To top it off, it's free.
We installed Capture View and clicked its desktop shortcut. The program opened with a Windows-style interface with a transparent main view, showing what was behind it, and an Aero-style toolbar with a mixed suite of unique icons and drop-down file menus. We dragged the boundary of the Capture View window over our desktop background picture and clicked Capture, which triggered a camera shutter sound. We saved the image to the desktop and opened it: a perfect copy of the capture field. Next we clicked Type/Desktop Capture and clicked Capture again. The program captured our entire wide-screen desktop, not just the visible portion. Next we clicked Application Capture, chose Normal Method (you can specify methods, too) and selected our Outlook Inbox from a drop-down list of running applications. Capture View recorded an image of our entire Inbox, even though Outlook was minimized to the desktop; that's pretty cool, and something the Snipping Tool can't do. Capture View's Directory Capture setting took a snapshot of a directory without opening it, too. The transparency and color options worked well, and having basic image-editing tools instantly accessible through the toolbar saves tons of time over opening an outside photo editor or graphics tool.
Capture View is the most versatile and capable screen capture tool we've ever used. The fact that it's free makes it a no-brainer; it blows the competition off the screen.
Publisher's Description
From GXDevelopoment:
Capture View capture desktops, virtual screens, directory contents, menus, pop-ups, custom or default regions, running applications whether shown, partially shown, completely hidden, even minimized. Capture View has a simple, easy to use, and intuitive interface. Select your capture method and click the capture button. An additional capture button is located on the system tray allowing you to take snap shots even when Capture View is not visible. Check out the timer delay. Choose from numerous image formats: PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF. Capture View has several basic imaging tools: crop tool, grayscale conversion, resize tool, watermarking tool, and border tool.
What's new in this version: Version 5.6 has added the ability to perform image edits and fixed few bugs.
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"Overly complex, unintuitive GUI, poorly documented"
Version: Capture View 5.4
Pros
Free - but you get what you pay for!
Cons
Fails to save your snaps unless you do something that is not readily pointed out when you install and run the software.
Summary
I installed this to capture important one-time documents for a government application form - once the documents were closed, no more access to the page data was possible. I took snaps of the pages that I needed and when I went to find them on the HD, I discovered that Capture View did not save them automatically and simply dumped the files - worse yet, they were not even dumped into the Windows Recycle Bin. I had totally lost the information that I had installed this specifically to grab, because they did not save anything automatically like most screen grab software does! I'd never recommend this program to anyone who needs a serious screen saver for documentation and archival purposes.
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"Very Cool Product"
Version: Capture View 5.4
Pros
Easy to use, capture in various image formats
Cons
don't see any
Summary
great software!
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"Very good product"
Version: Capture View 5.4
Pros
I use it often
Cons
It doesn't allow copying of a full web page.
Summary
Thanx
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"Easy to use. Big help developing training presentations"
Version: Capture View 5.4
Pros
Simple and versatile. Easy-to-use tool for presentations, proposals, etc.
Cons
Program doesn't appear automatically on the Start menu
Summary
I'm really glad I found and downloaded this.
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"easy to use and vary flexible"
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
simple to capture any part of the screen and be able to edit
Cons
None that I can see for the applications I need it
Summary
Recomended
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"Not quite what I was looking for..."
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
Quick loading.
Cons
Difficult to judge if picture was actually taken until the window is nudged, Thought it might imitate a digital camera and accumulate images to a batch file. A bit more Help text would be nice.
Summary
On my watch list, I'll try the next version.
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"Outstanding"
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
Very easy to use
Cons
None at this time
Summary
Recommend very highly
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"Before updating to 5.2, uninstall the older version."
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
no comment
Cons
no comment
Summary
Just a FYI. Capture View 5.2 cannot be installed untill you first unistall the older version. It may be a little annoying, but it is not that much extra work. Hope this works.
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"5.2 update does not work!"
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
Previous version does what I needed
Cons
Have previous version and attempt to install 5.2 update. Error when install.
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"Just when you thought it could not get better, it does."
Version: Capture View 5.2
Pros
Seriously, just try it. Using boxes for annotations, text, cropping, and highliting. This is much better than other screen captrue software.
Cons
documentation
Summary
Great software
