Snipping Tool Vista

In my earlier post I have mentioned about Z screen automatic screen shot tool. Here for those who are having above version of Vista Basic have the Snipping tool. This tool shall be used for capturing screen shots.

 

"You can capture a portion of your screen so you can save, annotate, or share the image"

I would say most of the Vista users may not have aware of this functionality that they have with their system.

To go to the Snipping tool

Open the Snipping Tool. Click Start>All Programs>Accessories. The Snipping Tool window will open and a white overlay appears over the screen.

Select the type of snip. Click on the arrow next to the New button and and choose from the options

 

• Free-form snip. To draw irregular shapes and lines, such as triangles and circles.

• Rectangular snip. Draw a custom and precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

 

• Window Snip. Capture the browser window or dialog box in a snip.

• Full-screen snip. Capture the entire screen, such as desktop background.

Capture the snip. Use the mouse or tablet stylus to drag around or select an area or program for snipping.

You can annotate and share the image. The snip will be automatically copied to the mark-up window. The toolbar hosts options for saving, creating, copying, e-mailing and editing the snip. I would say this is a slight set back with this option the images are copied are not set to any predefined folder /no autonaming and Saving feature when we do multiple screen shots. If you compare this feature Z screen edges out.

To save a snip, press the Save Snip button. In the dialog box enter a name for the file and choose a format if need be.

Annotations in the Snipping Tool include the ability to draw/write with a customizable pen, use a highlighter and clear selections with the eraser. These are simple to use tools for minor edits.

To share a snip, click the arrow on the Send Snip button and select an option from the menu.

To turn off the white overlay projected on the screen when the Snipping Tool, click Options. Clear the check box Show screen overlay when Snipping Tool is active.

To assign a shortcut key to the Snipping Tool, right click the Snipping Tool icon, click Properties and select the Shortcut tab. Enter your preference in Shortcut key.

Snips can be saved in a range of formats including HTML, PNG, GIF and JPEG.This a plus point where Z screen we have only JPG and PNG formats.

Any how we can do some gimmicks with this tiny application for Sure.

Do you want Automated Screenshots then it is Z screen

Z screen

Do you want to take automated Screen shots.Have you ever felt a pinch of feeling that when ever you take a screen shot you need to open the MS Paint and then paste it .When ever you want to take screen shots continuously you cant do the laborious process to Paint and paste the screen shots. If you are looking for one like me then you can consider going for using Z screen which performs the job well.

It is an open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots.

• It would take a screen shot and store in a folder path by default or we can set our own destination folder path. It saves in the folder path with custom naming conventions with variables(%mi to retrieve the current minute (or %t to get the title of the active window for instance)

• It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. Then we can share the url path to any one online instantly. Ie when saving remotely the URL is copied into clipboard with a single keystroke so that a user may paste that link via irc, email, im, etc.The default destination has been taken as Imageshack or Clip board.It has been confirmed by the coder that he is been doing the changes with FTP or File option instead.

• It can also interface with image editing software. It is a C#.NET 2.0 program hosted on Sourceforge.net and built by BrandonZ (inf1ni).

• It also can interface with image editing software such as Microsoft Paint, Paint.NET or Adobe Photoshop so that editing may be done before a screenshot is uploaded, saved, or put in clipboard.
• ZScreen uses PNG and JPEG. It uses PNG for anything below 350KB and then switches to JPEG after that barrier.

 

• Here is the entire process of taking a crop shot with no steps left out. Press your hot key (control + shift + l for instance), click your left mouse button once and drag down and right, and release. Instanteously paste into a chat window (control + v for instance) and press enter.

Please note the key buttons

There are other softwares available but they are shareware and paid one like

Ashampoo magical snap,My screen recorder,Gladwin, Screen discoverer,Photo snapper,Vidi windows, Cap True etc.

I have tried with Photosnspper with a 30days trial version .It captures the photshots automatically within a preset time and it would cost around 24USD.Also Gadwin in the trial version the screen shots are water marked but it also does a very fair Job.

Gadwin

Any one who wish to have an automated screen shot in their system shall always consider this. In the beta version  it does the job Very well.

Want to down load Z screen.