SnapDraw
Most screen capture programs are fine if you just want to take an image of what's on your screen to include in your document or presentation. The hard stuff comes when you need to add annotations or special effects ! Out goes the screen capture program, in come the big gun photo editors, and the next thing you know, you've wasted hours trying to achieve simple callout boxes ! In SnapDraw Free, all the complicated annotation graphics such as Callouts and Magnifier Lens or nice looking effect such as 3D perspective and Reflections - are built-in tools. With these tools, you just point and click to accomplish the work in a small amount of time while achieving High Quality of outputs. SnapDraw Free is one of the few capture programs able to record transparency/translucency introduced by Windows Aero (tm) desktop theme. Captures transparencies also in Windows XP, eg. rounded corners or custom shapes.
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Shottr
Shottr is a lightweight, high-speed screenshot utility for macOS designed to take quality screen captures and edit them with precision while staying out of your way. It captures screenshots in milliseconds and supports a full range of screenshot types including single windows, selected areas, and long scrolling captures of web pages or chats, all natively optimized for Apple silicon performance. Once captured, images open immediately in an intuitive editor where you can add text, freehand drawings, highlights, arrows, and other annotations, blur or remove sensitive areas, overlay images, and style backgrounds with gradients, shadows, and rounded corners. Shottr includes built-in OCR that recognizes and copies text and QR codes from images, a screen ruler for accurate measurements, a zoom tool for pixel-level inspection, and a color picker for exact color selection. It also lets you combine multiple captures on one canvas, and pin screenshots as always-on-top references.
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WinSnap
WinSnap is a screen capture utility for technical communicators, web-designers and ordinary users. It'll let you make professional screenshots for use in help systems, manuals, websites, and presentations. WinSnap is a fast and user-friendly utility for taking and editing screenshots. It easily captures windows of non-rectangular form with transparent backgrounds including Aero Glass and instantly enhances screenshots with professional-looking shadows, reflections, highlights, outlines, watermarks and color effects. Moreover, it allows you to quickly edit and annotate screenshots afterwards. Packed with a handful of screen capturing and image editing capabilities, WinSnap comes in handy whether you need an occasional screenshot or your job requires professional screenshots for a user manual, presentation, blog or website. WinSnap 5.x contains a number of innovative features that enable far superior screenshots and even easier working methods.
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ScreenshotX
ScreenshotX is lightweight, freeware app to take beautiful screenshots in Windows.
Key Features:
- Free area and window snip screenshot
- Automatic screenshot balancing
- Add a pretty background
- Use a brush tool to draw
- Color picker
- Redact sensitive information
- Add text and annotations (coming soon)
- Highlight important areas
- Share screenshots without registration
- Lightweight, native Windows app with no spyware
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