Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Capture arbitrary parts of the screen with ScreenJot
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 3rd 2006 at 3:33PM
A crafty AOL developer has created a
little app called ScreenJot, which pretty successfully
imitates the behavior for taking screenshots in OS X. I know there are lots of screen cap tools out there (feel free to
suggest your faves in the comments), but this one I'll be using just because it's so close to the OS X method. With
ScreenJot, you can hit Ctrl-Shift-5 and get a little crop tool, so you can grab just a section of the screen. This will
drop a BMP into a folder called "scraps" on your desktop. While I wish it would save something more useful
(like a JPEG), that problem is easily solved with any of the dozens of batch conversion tools out there...[Thanks dave!]
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark said 3:42PM on 4-03-2006
Wow. we've had that functionality in OS X for a while now... built right into the OS...
Command+Shift+4 = Partial Shot to file on desktop
Command+Shift+3 = Full screen (or multiple monitors) to file on desktop
Command+Shift+2 = Full screen to clipboard
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Franklin said 3:59PM on 4-03-2006
Very nice. Thanks, Download Squad!
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Marcus said 4:42PM on 4-03-2006
I've used MWSnap for the past few years and as far Windows goes, I don't think there's anything better.
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Jason said 5:19PM on 4-03-2006
I'm partial to Snippy: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
XP-only, but it lets you select *truly* arbitrary (read: non-rectangular) regions.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 5:44PM on 4-03-2006
Snippy looks cool! Wow, rectangular selections are new-- now that's thinking outside the box...
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Wry Cooter said 5:45PM on 4-03-2006
I suppose this is supposed to be for Windows use, perhaps linux, as it is already built in to Mac OS X and Classic.
Although it is hard to believe there has NOT already been a desktop snapshot app for Windows, with some ease of use. I guess the method is in the madness.
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Reader said 6:35PM on 4-03-2006
"I suppose this is supposed to be for Windows use, ... as it is already built in to Mac OS X and Classic."
"Wow. we've had that functionality in OS X for a while now... built right into the OS..."
Hey, the article already says all this, ... do you have to rub it in? ;)
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kbiel said 7:33PM on 4-03-2006
"Although it is hard to believe there has NOT already been a desktop snapshot app for Windows, with some ease of use. I guess the method is in the madness."
Um yes there is a desktop snapshot app for Windows that is quite easy to use, it is the "Print Screen" key. And when pressed the whole desktop is saved to the clipboard. Holding "Alt" while pressing the button saves a snapshot of the current window. There is no crop tool though. You have to crop the snapshot afterwards.
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Shep Eddy said 9:07PM on 4-03-2006
I'll ditto the MWsnap. It's a snap to use. You can choose to capture the entire screen, a window, a variable or fixed sized rectangle. Then you can save to several formats. It's one of the few icons that lives on my desktop.
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ToddZ said 2:25AM on 4-04-2006
Gadwin Printscreen is the hot ticket. It's one of the first utilities I install on any system. It can be set to grab the whole screen, a window area, or a drawn rectangle, then to save it in your choice of graphic file format, into a specified directory with an incremented filename. Lightning fast to use. I can't think of any way to make it better.
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keith coutinho said 6:16PM on 4-04-2006
press the print screen key, or alt+prtsc for and window, open gimp, import from clipboard.
the best screen application you can have.
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R Martin said 8:27AM on 4-05-2006
Hoversnap from www.hoverdesk.net has been my staple for doing this. Full screen, active window and selected area can be saved in a variety of formats. FREEWARE, also.
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Dana said 10:52AM on 5-28-2006
Gimme a break - BMP? What is this, Windows 3.1? I've stuck with PrintKey 5.1 (freeware) for screenshots, which can save in multiple formats, and it allows you to specify the section you want to capture. What's the other selling point - that "it's just like in OS X"? SFW?
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