screen capture

[bsmiffy]

Hi, I'm looking for a decent screen capture program, I like to take a screen shot of the new site and display it in my portfolio. The program I'm using seems to no longer capture a decent looking shot, I'm still using the same monitor but the shots don't look clear any more. What do other designers use?

[RikR]

I use free Irfanview.

[bsmiffy]

Thanks RikR, I use IrfanView but I didn't realise it had a capture feature, just tried it and it looks fine. Cheers

[freelancemom]

I always use ctrl>alt>prt scr and then paste it into photoshop (ctrl v).

then I just crop and resize it in there...

Are there better options? :)

Lori

[bsmiffy]

Thanks Lori, The one I use at the moment lets you select a part of the screen to capture so I would prefer a decent one similar to that.

[mikmik]

This the best one I have ever used, and i have never seen user reviews as good as this for anything:
MWSnap - screen capture tool

MWSnap is a small yet powerful program for taking scren captures of a desktop, an active window,menu, or a specified part of the screen. The program supports BMP, JPG, TIFF,PNG and GIF formats, with user selected color depth and quality settings. It also includes a zooming tool, a screen ruler and a color picker as well as system wide hotkeys and preset selection sizes. A very nice program, one of the best - if not the best, you can currently find for free.

User opinions
http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/for_mwsnap.html

[bsmiffy]

Thanks MikMik,

I'll take a look, you seem to give it a good recomendation.

[nukacola]

hello, sorry maybe i`m too late, but i have to say 1 thing about capturing...
i use screenvidshot for that porpose and i wanna advice it to everyone
but ig someone wanna make something like video tutorial there is new one called presentavid (www.presentavid.com)

these guys are making pretty good soft so far, coz they are making it for a looong time AND the other interesting thing. its very featured software much more than others like camtasia, but its much less for money... so check this out and good luck!
CLICK HERE
here u can find many useful tools for that including free soft