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Old January 27th 18, 04:23 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Terry Pinnell[_3_]
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Default Recommended alternative to Snagit

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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Old January 27th 18, 05:31 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.


I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.

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Old January 27th 18, 05:49 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Terry Pinnell[_3_]
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Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.


I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.


Thanks. I did try that and agree it's sweet to use. But where are the
hotkey settings you mention please?

Also, I'm afraid it lacks some fairly basic features I've grown used to,
such as capturing a preset region.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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Old January 27th 18, 06:41 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:49:22 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.


I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.


Thanks. I did try that and agree it's sweet to use. But where are the
hotkey settings you mention please?


In the menus. Take a dummy snapshot so that the full window appears,
complete with menus, File, Edit, Tools, and Help. Just poking through
there, I see hotkeys for New Snip and Save As. There's one for Copy to
Clipboard, but that option is enabled by default so you don't need the
hotkey.

Also, I'm afraid it lacks some fairly basic features I've grown used to,
such as capturing a preset region.


Ahh, there's the rub. You have additional requirements that I didn't
know about.

Have you tried the 2018 version of Snagit?

A colleague used to rave about a screen cap utility called Jing, also
from the Snagit folks. By chance, does it do what you want?
https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html

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Old January 27th 18, 06:50 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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"Terry Pinnell" wrote

| I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
| to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
| I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.
|
This isn't exactly what you're asking for, and
we may have talked about it already recently,
but a thought if you don't find what you want:

With a decent graphic editor it's easy and quick
to just crop the image from the Prt Scr key. I
capture that way, paste into Paint Shop Pro,
and then crop as necessary.

Earlier versions of PSP are even free, while the
current version seems to be comparable pricing
to SnagIt, yet is a full-featured graphic editor
on par with Photoshop.


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Old January 27th 18, 08:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Recommended alternative to Snagit

On 27/01/2018 15:23, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably.

How about your brain? Is it also affected by updating your windows and
doors?

I've noticed that your brain is seriously affected because a good
working brain won't cross-post to some useless newsgroups but your brain
is posting so you need to fix that as well.





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satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

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Old January 27th 18, 09:59 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Terry Pinnell[_3_]
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"Mayayana" wrote:

"Terry Pinnell" wrote

| I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
| to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
| I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.
|
This isn't exactly what you're asking for, and
we may have talked about it already recently,
but a thought if you don't find what you want:

With a decent graphic editor it's easy and quick
to just crop the image from the Prt Scr key. I
capture that way, paste into Paint Shop Pro,
and then crop as necessary.

Earlier versions of PSP are even free, while the
current version seems to be comparable pricing
to SnagIt, yet is a full-featured graphic editor
on par with Photoshop.


I've been using it for about 25 years.

Recently 'upgraded' to PSP 2018 and deeply regretting it. It's one of
the "several programs" I referred to in my opening post. Startup times
of 1 to 5 MINUTES.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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Old January 27th 18, 10:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Monty
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Default Recommended alternative to Snagit

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

I have been using Faststone Capture for the past 10 years and highly
recommend it. A lifetime license is inexpensive and you can download
a 30-day trial from http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

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Old January 27th 18, 10:53 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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"Terry Pinnell" wrote

| Earlier versions of PSP are even free, while the
| current version seems to be comparable pricing
| to SnagIt, yet is a full-featured graphic editor
| on par with Photoshop.
|
|
| I've been using it for about 25 years.
|
| Recently 'upgraded' to PSP 2018 and deeply regretting it. It's one of
| the "several programs" I referred to in my opening post. Startup times
| of 1 to 5 MINUTES.
|

Sorry to hear that. I use 5 and 16 and I actually
only open 16 when I need something like specialized
sharpening. I, too, find 16 bloated and sluggish.
I don't understand why someone doesn't make a
convincing competitor to Photoshop. PSP pretty
much is that, but they seem to be trying to break it.

One other option that you may also already know
about: IrfanView has a few screenshot options.

It sounds like you have specialized needs and do
a lot of screenshots.




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Old January 28th 18, 06:52 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Terry Pinnell wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.


I've used PicPick in the past; however, my clipboard manager (Clipmate)
already has the region, window, and screen captures and I've not needed
more than those methods to take snapshots of the screen or portion
thereof.

http://ngwin.com/picpick
(free for personal use only)

As others have mentioned, I can use the 3 methods available in Clipmate
or the Snipping Tool in Windows or just use PrtSc and then use an image
editor to decide just what to keep in the screenshot. Plus if the pic
is going public, like I'm uploading it to some image storage site to
post a link to it in a public venue (like Usenet), then I want to use an
image editor to blur out anything that is private or sensitive in the
screenshot.
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Old January 28th 18, 08:08 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Recommended alternative to Snagit

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK


I use Greenshot, but it may be an overkill for you since it has a built in
annotaion tools such as placing text, arrows, rectangles, ellipses,
highlights, obfuscation, etc. - and unfortunetely, it's a .NET crap - so it
loads relatively slower than non .NET applications.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/

Until I have a non .NET alternative which has the same functionalities and
is not heavier in terms of memory usage and application size, I can't dump
it yet.
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Old January 28th 18, 02:27 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:49:22 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.


Thanks. I did try that and agree it's sweet to use. But where are the
hotkey settings you mention please?


In the menus. Take a dummy snapshot so that the full window appears,
complete with menus, File, Edit, Tools, and Help. Just poking through
there, I see hotkeys for New Snip and Save As. There's one for Copy to
Clipboard, but that option is enabled by default so you don't need the
hotkey.


"...and allow a wide range of hotkeys,"

That is not possible with Snipping Tool.
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Old January 28th 18, 02:50 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:49:22 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.
I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.
Thanks. I did try that and agree it's sweet to use. But where are the
hotkey settings you mention please?

In the menus. Take a dummy snapshot so that the full window appears,
complete with menus, File, Edit, Tools, and Help. Just poking through
there, I see hotkeys for New Snip and Save As. There's one for Copy to
Clipboard, but that option is enabled by default so you don't need the
hotkey.


"...and allow a wide range of hotkeys,"

That is not possible with Snipping Tool.


Could you bind a hot key to a command line invocation ?

For example "nircmd" mentioned on this page, does screen snapshots.

https://superuser.com/questions/7561...ine-in-windows

And if you're actually working on a tutorial, I've used a
Windows build of ffmpeg and the GDIgrab to collect a movie at 1FPS.
I can work then, click a button, wait a second or two (to ensure there's
at least one frame in my movie with a clear snapshot), then do
my next step.

Later, in AVIdemux 2.5, I can scroll along and pick out the shots
I like from there. I can save a single frame as a BMP ot JPG.
AVIDemux will work with a folder of JPGs (considered
to be a "movie"), or it will work with a real movie (.avi).

Paul
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Old January 28th 18, 04:11 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Terry Pinnell[_3_]
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JJ wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK


I use Greenshot, but it may be an overkill for you since it has a built in
annotaion tools such as placing text, arrows, rectangles, ellipses,
highlights, obfuscation, etc. - and unfortunetely, it's a .NET crap - so it
loads relatively slower than non .NET applications.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/

Until I have a non .NET alternative which has the same functionalities and
is not heavier in terms of memory usage and application size, I can't dump
it yet.


Thanks all, appreciate the further suggestions, all of which I've
explored and now trying two in more depth: Greenshot and a trial of
FastStone Capture.

If TechSmith fix Snagit I'll return to that.

Re IrfanView (my most used viewer and simple editor for over two
decades). As I said, it does not offer a very basic requirement for me:
to be able to hit a customised hotkey and immediately activate that
capture. You have to open IrfanView first and set it up. I'm sometimes
capturing a dozen images within a minute.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 




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