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, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word / 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 regions and scrolling windows/web pages

Capture multiple windows and objects including multi-level menus

Record screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, 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 texts, arrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles and circles

Apply effects such as drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge 

Add image caption

Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten, adjust colors ...

Undo/Redo

Support tabs that allow you to capture and edit multiple screenshots simultaneously 

Support external editors

Save in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats

Acquire images from scanner

Convert images to a multi-page PDF file

Join images side by side to produce a single image file

Send captured images by email

Send captured images to Word and PowerPoint documents

Send captured images to a Web (FTP) server

Capture the screen at user-specified time intervals

Screen Magnifier

Screen Crosshair

Screen Ruler

Support multiple monitors

Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch) 

Run when Windows starts (optional)

Minimize to System Tray area

Small footprint in memory

And many more ...