The free Windows screen capture tool Screenshot Captor is a free screen capture program for Windows computers. It has an easy-to-use interface while providing all the basic features that a commercial screen capture software provides, including a basic set of image editing tools.
It works even on older PCs running Windows XP and can work on your latest PC with Windows 10 installed. It supports multi-monitor configuration and can capture from all monitors connected to your PC. While it comes with some basic editing tools of its own, you can configure it to work with your favorite image editors, watermark tools, batch image resizing tools, etc.
Free Windows Screen Capture Tool Screenshot Captor
The software can be installed on Windows or you can download the portable version and use it without installing it. In both cases it places a floating toolbar on your screen and an icon in the notification area of your screen. You can use both to access the screen capture functions.
With the animated toolbar you can choose functions like capture the whole screen, grab the selected region, grab a fixed area, repeat the last shot, capture objects inside the window. It sticks to any edge of the screen (like buttons or list boxes), capture images from your browser or webcam. Of course you can also use hotkeys to start screen capture (hotkeys can be configured in settings).
After capturing a screenshot, it can be opened in a built-in image editor that can be used to annotate or edit the image. You can use this image editor to add rectangles/circles, lines, arrows, text, captions or frames and rotate the image, adjust colors, change contrast or brightness, etc. You can also save the captured image as PDF. There are many special effects available in this capture tool. For example, you can blur, darken, pixelize or gray out a selected region, add shadows, borders, watermarks and more.
Screenshot Captor has all the screen capture modes you can find in other screen capture tools like MWSnap or HyperSnap but lacks special capture features like Snagit’s text capture feature which can extract text from a screenshot using OCR technology.
While the user interface in Screenshot Captor makes it very easy for you to access all the capture tools from the floating toolbar or notification area icon. It can be confusing for people who are familiar with HyperSnap software and how it allows you to capture and edit.
Although Screenshot Captor includes a basic image editor that can be used for basic annotation, resizing or editing, the results are not as impressive as when using a commercial software like TechSmith Snagit.
Screenshot Captor is good for personal use (like posting screenshots to forums or sharing them online), but if you are taking screenshots for professional work (creating manuals, presentations, guides or tutorials) then you should look somewhere better.
Link to use the free Windows screen capture tool Screenshot Captor: http://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/screenshot-captor
