screenshot SoftwareWe often use the day-to-day operation of software, the Internet to see what beautiful pictures can be screenshots software, seize the wonderful moment, the beautiful picture permanently retained to your computer. With the improvement of people's living standards and lifestyle changes, screenshots tools are more and more loved by people, access to beautiful pictures is no longer a patent IT professionals, but more tend to civilian and universal, everyone can get beautiful picture has become a fashion and possible. Screenshots at present a wide variety of software, quality is uneven, the face of a variety of screenshots software how we make a choice, in the end which one of the screenshot software is really suitable for your needs? This article through the current very popular four screenshots software for comprehensive evaluation, The results of the evaluation can be used for you to select the appropriate screenshot software reference. Before the evaluation, please first understand the participation in the evaluation of the four screenshot software.
First, screenshot software introduction and Installation:
software Name: SnagIt 8.1.0
SnagIt as a screenshot of the software domain, in addition to supporting the general screenshot operation, it can be in the premise of not starting SnagIt, directly embedded in Word, PowerPoint and IE browser screenshot operation, but also improved the past does not support a screenshot of the game function. SnagIt installation is very simple, the next step can be completed. software name: Hypersnap-dx 6.10.01 Simplified Chinese version (fire)
Hypersnap as a veteran screenshot software, support standard desktop programs and 3D games, video playback screenshots, with shortcut key screenshot function, and can grasp from the scanner or digital camera, support more than 20 kinds of picture format to save. At the end of the HYPERSNAP installation, you are prompted to check the installation of third party software such as "Chinese Internet official version", "ebay shopping", "Yahoo Assistant" and so on.
software Name: Red Dragonfly capture Figure Wizard 1.23 build 0430
Red Dragonfly grasping Figure Wizard as a free screenshot of the development of the software, operation is also more in line with the use of Chinese habits, you can capture the entire screen, active window, selected areas, fixed areas, selected controls, selected menus and other conventional image capture, image output is diverse, mainly including files, clipboard, paint and printer. The original menu grabbing function is one of its bright spots. At the end of the software installation, also prompts you to check the "Thunderbolt" Third-party software installation, and finally reboot the system to complete the software installation.
software Name: SPX Instant screen Capture & SPX Studio 5.0-2.1 Chinese version
The SPX Instant screen capture as a compact screenshot tool that crawls selected areas or entire windows, and can send crawled images to clipboard or email, picture editors, or files that are directly stored in BMP, GIF, and so on. It is not only easy to use, but also can make screenshots have tearing effect, this is one of the bright spots of the software.
Second, the ease of use of software
1, SnagIt
the key to using the SnagIt screenshot is to select a picture capture scheme. In Figure 1, the scenario item selects a capture scheme and then clicks the Capture button in the lower-right corner to intercept the screen picture. If you have any special needs for screenshots, you can select the Capture menu item to get a rich screenshot feature.
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Figure 1 SnagIt Main interface
2, Hypersnap
all screenshots of the software are concentrated in the "Capture" menu item in Figure 2, general screenshot operation can be selected here, if you need to intercept the general screenshot software can not capture the game and video screen, you may click the "Enable Special capture" menu item, it will pop up the corresponding settings window to capture.
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Figure 2 Hypersnap Main interface
3, Red Dragonfly grasping Figure wizard
Select the screenshot mode in the left column (Figure 3), then click on the "Capture" button, that is, you can intercept the specified screen, and enter a simple picture editing window, the necessary processing of the picture, and finally click the "Finish" button to save the picture.
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Fig. 3 Red Dragonfly Grasping Diagram Wizard main interface
4. SPX Instant screen Capture
Unlike the previous three screenshot software, the main interface is different, the software will appear on the system tray of a software icon, hold down the right mouse button, until the mouse pointer becomes a cross pointer, and then hold down the left mouse button frame to intercept the object, release the mouse button, the software will automatically pop the Save file dialog box, Save screenshot as graphic format
Third, shortcut key support
1, SnagIt
SnagIt can set individual shortcuts to each scheme, right-click the capture scheme, and select "Set Hotkey" in the pop-up shortcut menu to make changes in the "Change Scheme Hotkey" window.
2, Hypersnap
Hypersnap provides a powerful shortcut key feature that allows you to see the corresponding shortcuts in the capture → Configure hotkey menu (Figure 4).
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Figure 4 Hypersnap Hotkey Settings window
3, Red Dragonfly grasping Figure wizard
Red Dragonfly Catch Figure Wizard's default catch shortcut key to "Crtl+shift+c", click on the "Hot Key" tab item (Figure 5), you can check or select the Drop-down menu to modify settings. The only inconvenience is that it cannot set the corresponding shortcut key for the corresponding screenshot scheme.
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Fig. 5 Red Dragonfly grasping Figure Wizard Hotkey Settings window
4. SPX Instant screen Capture
Click on the software icon on the system tray, in the pop-up Options window (Figure 6), there are different shortcuts for different captures, positioning the cursor in the corresponding key Settings box, and then pressing the keys on the keyboard to easily modify the shortcut keys.
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Figure 6 SPX Instant Screen capture Hotkey Settings window
Four, the screenshot function competition (Basic screenshot function four software all have, this evaluation takes video/game interception as an example)
1, SnagIt
Interception of video/game screen, just click the "capture → enter → advanced →direct x" menu item, you can switch to "Direct X input" mode, then just press the SCROLL LOCK button to intercept the video/game screen. Figure 7 SnagIt Select "Direct x input" mode
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2, Hypersnap
Hypersnap intercept the video/game screen, just click the "capture → Enable special capture" menu item, tick the pop-up window to draw the red box all the options, open Hypersnap video/game screenshot function. Screenshots, as with the SnagIt screenshot button, only a special button, Hypersnap with the Print Screen key to intercept the video/game picture.
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Figure 8 Hypersnap enable the Special capture feature
3, Red Dragonfly grasping Figure wizard
No video/Game screen interception function.
4. SPX Instant Screen Capture
No video/Game screen interception function.
v. Features feature display
1, SnagIt
SnagIt provides a "recording screen video" program is very practical, in the work, I put some common software use method through this function recorded into AVI file on the LAN play, taught a lot of novice-level users. The method is as follows: Click on "other capture scheme → record screen video", and then use the left mouse button on the screen to draw a region, click the pop-up window of the "Start" button, record your operation, and finally click the "End" button, a computer teaching demo film on the recording completed.
2, Hypersnap
The text extracted from the picture, often requires OCR software to help. Now HYPERSNAP can also extract the text from the picture, do you believe it? Let's take a look at its "text capture" feature. Open the picture you want to extract the text from, and then press the "ctrl+shift+t" shortcut, and the corresponding text will be displayed in the Hypersnap window.
3, Red Dragonfly grasping Figure wizard
In general, intercepting windows and areas is very easy, but if you go to intercept the active menu is not so easy, often need to intercept the picture again two times to deal with very troublesome. But the red Dragonfly catches the picture wizard-specific "select Menu" intercepting feature provides great convenience for us to intercept the active menu. Click on the left "select Menu" button, switch to the need to intercept the menu interface, immediately press the "ctrl+shift+c" shortcut keys, you can get the perfect screenshot of the menu (Figure 9).
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Fig. 9 Red Dragonfly Grab Picture Wizard Menu screenshot
4. SPX Instant Screen Capture
Adding edge effects to screenshots, adding annotations and watermarks are the biggest highlights of the SPX Instant screen capture software.
In the enhanced item, check the edge effect (Figure 10), then check the Rip effect checkbox on the right, select the location of the rip in the position bar, and drag the depth slider to see the tearing effect from the preview window below to adjust to your satisfaction. It's easier to set the color of the outside edge of the picture, the color of the shadow, and the background, simply by clicking on the Color drop box next to it to select the color you want. Adding annotations and watermarks is also very simple, and the user learns it, and it's not repeated here. is the screenshot with so many effects cool enough?
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Figure SPX Instant Screen capture enhancements
vi. supporting file formats
Screenshot software file format
SnagIt 8.1.0:bmp, GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG, ICO, cur, PDF, SWF, MHT, etc.
hypersnap:bmp, GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG, ICO, cur, psd, EPS, WMF and more than 20 kinds of formats
Red Dragonfly grasping Figure Wizard: BMP, GIF, JPG
SPX Instant screen capture:bmp, GIF, JPG, png
Summarize:
SnagIt and Hypersnap as a veteran screenshot software, screenshots function of the performance is very good, but also its features: SnagIt's "Admission screen video" and Hypersnap pictures taken out of the text to impress me, that they not only intercept their own work done in place, And each has its own unique skills. Although getting started is a bit difficult, they have become a necessary screenshot tool for professionals. As the saying goes: The powerful function is often the cost of the complexity of the operation. For the general rookie-level users, the function is too strong is not the best choice. and red Dragonfly grasp Figure elf simple operation Interface, although its shortcut key function does not have each kind of screenshot to set individual shortcut key, but this does not affect its screenshot function, the Interception menu function is very practical, suitable for the rookie class user daily use. SPX Instant Screen Capture Although there are no previous three screenshots in the screenshot of the software rich and diverse, but its screenshot to increase the edge effect, add annotations and watermark function, greatly enriched the screenshot software connotation and role, very suitable for those who do not only meet the effect of the fashion screen.
Four screenshot software function comparison table:
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