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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: July 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 158,042
- Downloads last week: 664
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 66 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on August 20, 2009
FastStone Capture addresses the shortcomings common to screen-capture programs, and it packages the features and options you need in an easy-to-use interface that simplifies the most cumbersome tasks, including selecting just the parts you want to save, resizing and editing the image, selecting the file format and destination, writing captions, and naming and organizing the final results.
FastStone Capture's primary interface is a small floating task bar with a handful of easy-to-understand icons that activate the program's various methods of capturing screen images: active window, object, rectangle, freehand, full screen, scrolling window, and, for video capture, a screen recorder. Two other buttons select output options and program settings. The program also installs icons on the desktop and system tray. Clicking on an image in any of the capture modes opens the FastStone Editor, a speedy but basic image editor that has some drawing, painting, and effects capabilities. The ability to quickly and easily write and attach captions may be the standout feature. We also like the screen recorder for capturing onscreen video while preserving the context.
FastStone Capture functions quickly, smoothly, and unobtrusively. It downloads, installs, and opens without issues, and, should you decide not to keep it, it uninstalls cleanly without leaving behind any orphan files or folders. FastStone Capture is shareware; it's free to use for 30 days, after which you must purchase and register your copy. We recommend it for all user levels.
Publisher's description
From FastStone Soft :FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/Web pages. 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. It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into highly compressed video files. FastStone Capture saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats.
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Version: FastStone Capture 6.5
"-WARNING- Video Capture Will -NOT- work with FIREFOX"
Pros: Lots of capabilities, Small Size, Simple to Use! Video Capture MAY work well using MSIE, dunno because I no longer have it on my drive. It takes A LOT to freeze up Firefox, but this program does it no problem! A WORD 2 The WISE!!
Cons: It downloads, installs and runs with FIREFOX unless I try to use the "Video Capture", then it won't close even with Ctrl-Alt-Del. My hard disc is now BACK to the state it was before I installed this thanks to Norton GO-BACK. System 'Restore' work too
Summary: If you have FIREFOX on your system, do yourself a big favor and DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS program unless you definitely will NOT ever try to use the video capture!
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