FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, audio from speakers, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, OneNote / Word / Excel / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.
FastStone Capture saves images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats. Built-in screen recorder saves videos in WMV (Windows Media Video) format.
Features
A small handy Capture Panel that provides quick access to its capture tools and output options
Global hotkeys to activate screen capturing instantly
Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand/fixed-size regions and scrolling windows/web pages
Capture multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus
Record screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, audio from speakers, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files (Windows Media Video format). A built-in video editor allows you to draw annotations, apply zoom effects and cut unwanted sections. It even allows you to convert video files to animated gif files
Options to specify output destination (internal editor, clipboard, file, printer ...)
Draw annotation objects such as callouts, straight/curved texts, arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles, circles, step numbers and many more
Apply effects such as spotlight, drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge
Blur selected area
Add image caption
Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors
Undo/Redo
Support tabs that allow you to capture and edit multiple screenshots simultaneously
Organize and group tabs in multiple workspaces (optional). Each workspace remembers its last-used folder and works like a separate instance of the internal editor
Support external editors
Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats
Acquire images from scanner
Convert images into a single PDF file
Combine images into a single image file
Print multiple images in batch mode
Send captured images by email
Send captured images to OneNote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
Send captured images to a Web (FTP) server
Auto capture screen repeatedly at user-specified time intervals
Screen Color Picker
Screen Magnifier
Screen Crosshair
Screen Focus
Screen Ruler
Support multiple monitors
Support high-DPI/high-resolution/4K monitors
Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
Run when Windows starts (optional)
Minimize to System Tray area
Small footprint in memory
And many more ...
Version 9.2 (September 12, 2019)
Enhanced Draw tools
Added Border option to Highlighter
Added Highlight option to Magnifier
Added left/right click option when Mouse Pointer inserted
Smoother Pencil and enhanced L-Line
Draw tools load faster
Added Classic Skin option to Editor under its Settings menu
Added a new method (by entering diagonal length of screen) to calibrate Screen Ruler
Other minor improvements and bug fixes
