↓ 01 – Edge’s Web Note | Microsoft Edge Browser
↓ 02 – Microsoft Windows | Windows
↓ 03 – ShareX | Windows
↓ 04 – TechSmith Jing | Windows | macOS
- Capture what you see – Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen with Jing. Simply select any window or region that you want to capture, mark up your screenshot with a text box, arrow, highlight or picture caption, and decide how you want to share it.
- Record what you’re doing – Select any window or region that you would like to record, and Jing will capture everything that happens in that area. From simple mouse movements to a fully narrated tutorial, Jing records everything you see and do. Jing videos are limited to five minutes for instant, focused communication.
- Send your video or screenshot – Send your screenshots and videos all over the web. As soon as you’re done with your screen capture or screen recording, it’s ready to upload to Screencast.com and share through IM, email, social media, and more.
↓ 05 – Windows Snipping Tool | Windows
- Free-form Snip. Draw an irregular line, such as a circle or a triangle, around an object.
- Rectangular Snip. Draw a precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.
- Window Snip. Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.
- Full-screen Snip. Capture the entire screen when you select this type of snip.
↓ 06 – Lightshot | Windows | macOS | Chrome | Firefox
- Fast screenshot of selected area – Our app allows you to select any area on your desktop and take its screenshot with 2 button-clicks.
- Easy-to-use application – Simple and intuitive user interface makes your work with the app easier and faster.
- Share screenshots via Internet – Upload your screenshot to the server and get its short link right away.
- Powerful editors – You can edit screenshots instantly when taking them or later using a powerful online editor.
- Similar image search – Find similar images. Select any image on your screen and find dozens similar images.
↓ 07 – Lightscreen | Windows | Linux
↓ 08 – Greenshot | Windows
- Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.
- Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
- Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.
↓ 09 – DuckCapture | Windows | macOS
Screen Capture Tool For Windows 10
↓ 10 – PicPick | Windows | macOS
- Capture anything – Take screenshots of an entire screen, an active window, the scrolling windows and any specific region of your desktop, etc.
- Edit your images – Annotate and highlight your images: text, arrows, shapes and more with the built-in image editor that includes the latest Ribbon style menu.
- Enhance with effects – Easily add effects to your images: drop shadows, frames, watermarks, mosaic, motion blur, brightness control and more.
- Share everywhere – Save, share, or send your images via Web, email, ftp, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter and more.
- Graphic Accessories – Variety of graphic design accessories including color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, magnifier, whiteboard.
- Customizable setting – With highly advanced settings, you can customize hotkeys, file naming, image quality, and many other options that fits your needs.
![Screen Screen](/uploads/1/2/5/3/125377231/463106223.jpg)
↓ 11 – Shutter [ Discontinued ] | Linux
- Capture – Shutter allows you to capture nearly anything on your screen without loosing control over your screenshots (tabbed interface).
- Edit – Especially if you are taking screenshots for writing tutorials or manuals you need to edit the image, e.g. highlighting some part of it. With Shutter you don’t need to open an external graphics editor like GIMP, because Shutter ships with its own built-in editor.
- Share – We all spend much of our time in forums, wikis, chats etc. From time to time we need to do some screenshots and upload them so we can share them with other people.
- Plugins – Shutter ships with a great variety of plugins that allow you to add impressive effects to your screenshots.
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About 6 months ago I was playing around on my iBook G4 and I found the option to change the format that Apple+Shift+4 saves in. For some odd reason I choose JPG-2000 (picture.jp2). Of course, now I can’t find how to change it back!
It’s not hard to change the format of a screen capture / screenshot made with the native Mac OS X capture utility, but you do have to be comfortable opening up your Terminal.app and typing in a command on the command line. Y’know, the Unix underneath the snazzy graphical interface. ?
Start by going to Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal.app and launching it. You’ll see something like this:
At this point you want to decide which format you’d like. Here are your choices:
Screen Video Capture Tool
- BMP (Windows bitmap)
- GIF
- JPEG 2000 (what you chose)
- JPEG
- PICT
- PNG
- PSD
- SGI
- TGA
- TIFF
Quite a few choices, as you can see!
Pick the one you like — I recommend PNG, which stands for progressive network graphic, as the best of both GIF and JPEG formats — and then type in the following command exactly as shown:
For example, if you did decide to use PNG format, you’d type:
Type that in and you won’t see anything change, but next time you take a screen shot (as documented here: how to get a screen capture on Mac OS X) you’ll have the image saved in the format you seek.