The Use Of Downloading Screen Capture SoftwareYou may have been quite often in the need to make a screen capture to include it in your work, and as such would need to download screen capture software, especially if you had to underline some parts of a certain window or to create a software program user's manual to depict different steps to be followed by the user. Being forced to use screen captures a lot, you have also been annoyed by the complicated process of doing it: taking a screenshot of the entire window, and then open a graphic editor to open the copied image. Afterwards, you must cut the picture in order to have only the desired part of the screen. After you have the part of the screen you need, go and save it and import is afterwards in the program used to create the manual. Then you have to edit the file some more, to make the screen capture fit in the document. There are, however, software tool that can help you deal with many screen captures, easing significantly your work. These programs are very easy and intuitive to use, allowing you to capture either the entire screen or just parts of it (you can capture a pre-defined area, a button, a certain image or a piece of text). You can also use the screen capture program to edit the captured image, to add pieces of text, different boxes or arrows around that image. You do not have to work with multiple programs to do all these operations and editing steps to the captured image. One of the most interesting and appealing features of modern screen capture software is the ability to work together with Flash to create various sorts of interactive sections for your captured image. The user reading the manual will have an interactive capture which he can use to get a better idea about how the programs is supposed to work. You may have used yourself such interactive user's manual, in which you roll over with the cursor over a Flash image to see it change its aspect in the way you should operate the program. Needles to say that you cannot accomplish this with the traditional copy-paste-cut-save screen capture technique. Rikisoft's EasySnap Studio is one of the most powerful and richest screen capture software tools available. You can use it to quickly capture a pre-defined rectangular section on the screen by using short-cut keys, to capture any visible part of the screen or to capture the entire screen by using just one mouse click. If you want to capture only the active current window and not the entire screen if this is what you need. You can also EasySnap Studio to edit and add different effects to the captured images. Among the editing options available, one can mention changing the color and the size of the original captured image, cropping, adjusting the image's sharpness, contrast or brightness. You can also easily insert different objects or pieces of text over the captured image, flipping, blurring or emboss them. |