Lilly
July 16, 2015, 6:31am
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Re: Screen Capture Softwares
Snipping tool comes preinstalled with windows 7 and 8. It only has tools such as pen, highlight and an eraser, pretty basic. Lets you save in HTML, GIF, PNG and JPEG format.
Greenshot, installed it just now to compare it with the other 2 programs. Its free and i installed the full version instead of choosing default or custom because then it installs all the plugins so that you can open it in MS office, paint, upload it to dropbox, picassa, photo bucket etc. It comes with its own editor. More tools than ST, so you can add text, insert lines, highlight, rotate, resize and use effects such as color inversion, border, greyscale, pixelate and a few more and thats pretty much it. Lets you save in multiple formats.
Snagit, you can download the free trial version for 15 days and if you decide that you want it, then you can purchase it. It has all the features of GS and much more. It has its own editor and the tools and image effects have many options. One thing that i like about it is that unlike GS, i can select an area within the image and make changes to that portion only without disturbing the rest of the image, eg. instead of rotating/ flipping the whole image i select my desired part and rotate that potion only. You can also watermark the images and it also captures video and audio as well. You can save your work in multiple formats.
I’ve attached screenshots of all 3 programs, just so you can have an idea how it looks and what can you do with each program. Which one you choose, depends on what tools you require to edit an image after capturing it
Thanks for the detailed review. I just checked snipping tool is installed on my laptop, i was not aware of it at all lol. The good thing is that image can be edited right after capturing in the same editor,two in one. I always used two softwares in the past for capturing and editing. I thought snagit is free all the way?
Greenshot looks good and it gives you the opportunity of opening the image in many other softwares. i wonder if anyone else is using it too?