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When choosing a free screenshot tool, consider why you're saving screenshots and what you need to do to them. It must quickly and easily capture all or part of your screen. You should be able to obscure, blur, annotate, or highlight parts of the image as you create it. Finally, you should be able to save or export your screenshot just as effortlessly as you created it, including uploading it directly to sites such as Picasa using plug-ins. That describes our new favorite screenshot tool, GreenShot. Recent updates include Windows 8 compatibility.
GreenShot's installation wizard lets you choose from a variety of plug-ins to install, as well as huge list of interface languages, most displayed in their own form of script. The installer apparently detected our copy of Office because the Office plug-in was already selected. We could also set GreenShot to open when Windows starts. When it's running, GreenShot sticks to the system tray until you need it. Then you can either click its icon to open an extensive (and nicely rendered) menu, or use a variety of hotkeys for specific jobs. GreenShot's Settings are much more extensive and impressive than most free screenshot tools. For example, the Destination tab let us choose either to select file destinations dynamically (the default setting) or to designate specific choices ranging from Save directly to opening an image editor or Office app. There's also an Expert tab with a checkbox labeled "I know what I am doing!" that enables options such as checking for unstable updates and specifying printer footer patterns. The system tray menu also has a Quick Preferences submenu for common settings.
GreenShot works a lot like other screen capture tools. We selected Capture region, held down the mouse button and dragged the active area to capture a screen image. GreenShot's green-tinted capture region is pretty cool and makes selections a cinch. We opened our new image directly in the surprisingly sophisticated GreenShot Image Editor, which let us add effects, text and objects; resize, crop and rotate; and even draw freehand on our image. GreenShot is our new choice for screenshots.
Publisher's Description
From GreenShot:
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots.
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"A great app to copy and paste elsewhere quickly."
Version: GreenShot 1.0
Pros
I really love this app. I can choose what to copy/cut - a page, an image on the page, part of a page and then save it to to one of my Office apps, Dropbox, Picasa and many other online sites.
Cons
Haven't found any yet.
Summary
When I don't need to use Evernote, but I want to save what I see, GreenShot does the trick intuitively and quickly.
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"GreenShot does the job"
Version: GreenShot 1.0
Pros
Easy to use for even novice computer users - no big training required.
Nice intuitive interface.
It has the set of gizmos you'd want for documentation (arrows, highlight, crop, obfuscation) without a lot of extra stuff clogging up the program.
You can save and load objects that you frequently use (like numbering for instance).
You can "Open with GreenShot" to use the gizmos on other images collected outside of GreenShot.Cons
I haven't tried any of the other newer screenshot utilities. It is possible one of them might have something extra that GreenShot doesn't. I don't know what that might be.
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"Awesome Screenshot Tool"
Version: GreenShot 1.0
Pros
Able to upload files to cloud.
Able to save as files.
Able to directly print.Cons
Needs a better user interface.
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"Excellent and full featured"
Version: GreenShot 0.8
Pros
Many features; gets the job done, outperforms windows printscreen/paint and the snippit tool.
Cons
could use a facelift in the GUI (a little boxie)
could use some more highlighting options such as a 'circle text box' and more 'stamps'Summary
Overall; suits my current needs and IT's FREE
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"I like the image editing features"
Version: GreenShot 0.8
Pros
Super easy to use; lets you select a region, not just a window; you can mark the resulting image with arrows, boxes, ellipses, and text.
Cons
None that I can think of.
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"So easy and simple with great features and FREE."
Version: GreenShot 0.8
Pros
Hot Keys quickly allow capture of region, window or desktop. Latest feature includes cursor that can easily be moved or deleted from image. Too cool.
Cons
None - It is also very small and so portable. I keep it on a thumbdrive when I am at different computers and need to capture some or all of the screen. I sometime capture a region of the region.
Summary
Awesome free tool. Years ago my company wouldn't spring for additional "pricey" Snag-It licenses. I combed the internet and found this free tool. Searching CNET,Gadwin Printscreen has a lot of reviews and after wiping out my pc and installing Win7 I decided to try the free tool with the most positive reviews. I switched back to Greenshot because of the easy hot-key captures of region, window or desktop. Thank you to the developer for a great tool. BTW, recently see and wish CNET wasn't trying to sneak spam onto our systems during download and installs. Carefully read the screens during install.
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"Works even with dual monitors!"
Version: GreenShot 0.8
Pros
works with dual monitors
allows control over part of display to copy
allow you to edit images (add text, arrows, highlighting etc)
allows you to print, copy, or save image
allows control over save format.Cons
Have not found any yet!
Summary
I've tried MANY of these programs, and this is the only free one I've found that does everything I need.
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"By far the best I've found"
Version: GreenShot 0.8
Pros
Lightweight, full-featured, fast, clean interface, no bloat or BS, highly customizable depending on your needs.
Cons
I get a little nervous about the fact that the developer hasn't released a new stable version in nearly a year. It's not that I really need him to change anything about the app, it's great as is, but I hope he sticks with it.
Summary
I use screenshot tools all the time and have always been frustrated by ones that were bloated (Jing) or weren't full-featured enough (LightScreen). With the right settings, GreenShot does exactly what I need it to do - copies the screenshot to my clipboard, brings it up in a lightweight editor in case I need to add arrows or labels, and saves it in a "screenshots" folder in case I need to upload or send the file somewhere. The number of screenshots I take per day just for the sake of convenience has at least doubled since I started using GreenShot. This and Notepad++ are my favorite open source apps ever.
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"great product"
Version: GreenShot 0.7
Pros
very happy anf love it
Cons
i do not have any cons
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"Easiest screen shots ever!"
Version: GreenShot 0.7
Pros
Easy to use
Opens quickly when i need itCons
none so far
Summary
I don't write many reviews, but....
Stumbled on to this a while back, has turned into one of my "go-to" applications. Easy to get screen shots of exactly what i need including small sections of online books, bits of web sites, etc. This combined with evernote makes me v happy!
