Daily Archive for September 16th, 2006

Taking better screenshots

The old method of hitting printscreen (usually twice for good measure) and then editing the photo in Gimp just wasn’t working for me anymore. Luckily I found this little shiny collection of 1’s and 0’s:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

It has more features than I really need, but here is a list of the cool ones:

  • Take a snapshot of the entire desktop.
  • Take a snapshot of any Window, or menu.
  • Take a snapshot of any rectangular area.
  • Use an onscreen ruler to measure the size of, uh , onscreen stuff.
  • A color picker that gives you the color value of any onscreen color.
  • Basic transformation tools like flip, rotate and such.

You could pay $39 for Snag It or you could download this great tool.