FastStone Capture 5.8

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• Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $19.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: October 07, 2007
• Total Downloads: 132,594
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• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 65 votes
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What's new in this version:

Version 5.8 enhances 'Save As' dialog, updated automatically instead of requiring users to click on the 'Update Preview' button, enlarged preview windows in rectangle capture mode and freehand capture mode.

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• Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 65 votes
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• 5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: FastStone Capture 5.8

  "Excellent program !!"

  by john3347 on October 9, 2007

  Pros: This program is wonderful for capturing icons, pictures, individual words or phrases from a document, or for quickly and easily taking full (or partial) screen captures. Wonderful program, easy to learn and use. Fun converting the Grandkid's photos into desktop icons, etc.

  Cons: All the features and capabilities of Capture are included in Image Viewer which is free. The difference is that to utilize the features in Image Viewer, a lot of "jumping through hoops" is required. One must be a bit creative and several steps are required to do what can be done in one or two steps with Capture. Almost makes it worth the $20 price tag.

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• 5 stars

  Version: FastStone Capture 5.8

  "5.1 is great and intuitive"

  by hefaistion on January 23, 2008

  Pros: Just what I want

  Cons: naught

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• 5 stars

  Version: FastStone Capture 5.8

  "Good Job!"

  by King Opera on January 12, 2008

  Pros: Magnifier and color picker is a plus!

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: FastStone Capture 5.8

  "A MUST"

  by pellk on October 19, 2007

  Pros: Just like other stuff from Faststone, it's extremely small but extremely useful. The program's always-on-top. Capturing is amazingly easy and accurate at the same time by means of a magnifier. The magnifier intelligently goes to a corner of the screen that you don't need while capturing. It captures windows (active, scrolling, or else), objects, regions (rectangle, polygon, or freehand), and full screen. The result can be set to be opened in a native editor, copied to clipboard, or saved to a file. You can even set it to save the image file without asking you. Save dialogue, however, is Faststone's standard one, which I believe is the best thing possible. I use it's colour picker too, and this part is just perfect too. You can use the editor and the magnifier independently. Other options include customisable captions, edges and watermarks, and a few interface skins. All this is 1.2MB. Unbelievable!

  Cons: It can't capture scrolling pages of Firefox smoothly, though as I've seen all big names (like Corel Capture or SnagIt) suffer from the same problem. The previous version was free for personal use. This new one is not.

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• 5 stars

  Version: FastStone Capture 5.8

  "Well worth the price!!"

  by smcclos2 on January 29, 2008

  Pros: Excellent little Screen capture, color picker application. I especially like the ability to pick the active window and active scrolling window.

  It is nice that a utility is created where you can either install it or run it from a directory or USB drive

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