How the computer a key to the alternative screen capture

screen shots of special needs can sometimes be nerve-racking--the open menu runs off as soon as the screen button is clicked. How does the gradient transition effect at the edge of the screenshot be made? is the screenshot too small to enlarge directly? Do not want others to see the part of the fuzzy processing, how much control? How do you focus on highlighting that you need? What do I do to measure the size of the screen exactly? Can the daily mouse operation borrow drawing software of the cross? All of these, do not need to find a special image software to deal with after the screenshot, an alternative screenshot software FastStone Capure can be resolved on the spot.

1. Multi-level menu won't run away

When the software is started, a floating toolbar appears on the desktop, while a red-green crossover triangle icon resides on the system tray. Drawing and processing depend on these two components to complete, in addition to another "Anqi"-shortcut key combination.

Usually grab a fixed window fortunately, when you want to crawl a multi-level menu at a certain level, did not wait to press the Capture button, the screen but ran away. If you use the FastStone capure software, because it defines the shortcut key "Shift+printscreen" that captures the Window object by default, when you expand to a screen menu and need to crawl, the mouse pauses to the level menu and then presses the shortcut key above to box select and crawl the Level menu ( Figure 1).

Small tip:

If you need to intercept with all levels of menus and their surroundings, simply move the mouse cursor after pressing the key combination to change the area you want to crawl. And then all levels of the menu will also be fixed, not because of the mouse movement and run away.

2. Transition effect Coherent

We can often in some web or art map to see the edge of the picture blurred or torn effect, perhaps most people think that need to crawl after the use of image software to deal with, in fact, can not be. Simply click the "output → edge/watermark" option on the FastStone capure toolbar, and then select the "Automatically apply edge/watermark effect when capturing completes" option to select "Fade in Edge" output effect and configure it. This will automatically get the edge color fading after the drawing is finished (Figure 2).

Small tip:

In the Edge/Watermark Settings window, select options such as Edge Shadow, Rip edge, border, watermark image, and so on, to get different types of edge effects, or to add a watermark to a picture.

3. The screenshot is too small to enlarge directly

If you think that the image of the interception is too underestimated, you want to enlarge the processing, you can set the Intercept output option to output to the editor, so that the picture will be automatically opened in the editor with. Then click the Resize button in the Picture Editor window (or right-click the picture and choose resize) to customize the zoom ratio of the picture in pixels or percentages (Figure 3).

Small tips:

To keep the enlarged image unchanged, choose to scale in percent. Also select the maintain proportions and enable anti-aliasing check boxes so that the captured pictures are not deformed or have no edges.

4. Fuzzy processing let you control

If you want to blur some parts of the screenshot (such as some sensitive privacy data or icons, etc.). At this point, you can at the end of the crawl, in the automatically open the picture editor first box to select the fuzzy part, and then click the "Blur" Drop-down button, choose the fuzzy level parameters. In this way, the selected part is processed with a set degree of ambiguity (Figure 4).

5. Spotlight Effect highlighted

In order to highlight a particular part, the artist often has to highlight the part of the picture to focus on the light, and dilute the rest of the process. In the FastStone capure software, just select the highlighted piece after drawing, then click on the "Spotlight" button, adjust the fuzzy edge through the slider, highlight the background, fuzzy background and other parameters, you can get the highlighted effect of concentrating on (Figure 5).

6. The screen size accurate quantity takes

If the screen capture size requirements are more stringent, with a "ruler" is necessary. Right-click on the FastStone capure system tray icon and select "Screen Ruler", and then there will be a "ruler" on the screen that can be dragged anywhere. This allows for a measurement of the part to be crawled (Figure 6).

Small tip:

The ruler's unit can be selected by the right key menu of the ruler, including pixels, centimeters, inches, and so on. In addition, you can adjust the ruler's horizontal or vertical direction. If you no longer need it, use the ESC key to exit.

Extended reading:

Usually, the computer's mouse cursor is a diagonal arrow icon. You'll find that when you use screenshots, the pointer turns into a very fine cross, similar to the cross cursor of a precision optical instrument or sniper rifle, which looks cool and easy to pinpoint. If you like this style, you can borrow it as a daily use. Right-click the FastStone capure tray icon and select screen Cross. At this point, the cursor on the screen changes to the cross wire style, but also the enlarged Navigation pane, you can determine the pixel coordinates of the screen in time. Depending on the shortcut key prompts within the navigator, you can also control the display of only one line or two lines (Figure 7).