Zoombox: capture an area in accurate size

Capture a rectangular area on the screen. A dynamic Zoombox enlarges the corner area to size precisely. The Highlight color and Zoombox can be customized on the Options tab.
 


Settings

Capture windows or objects on a form, such as buttons, menus and toolbar controls. The object is highlighted in the Highlight color.

Auto-scroll: scrolling a long web page or scrollable window

Capture a scrollable window or a web page that ScreenHunter can scroll it automatically, auto-scroll.

You can capture a scrollable area that is currently outside of the viewing area of the window. You can set to auto-scroll vertically or horizontally.

It's a great way to capture long web pages!

'Scrolling window / Long Web page' auto-scroll step-by-step guide

When you have a webcam or scanner driver installed, ScreenHunter can capture your webcam and scan images directly.

Scanner example

How to take a webcam screenshot or scan image? And what is a driver?

Multi-object Capture
 
 Using ScreenHunter 5 Pro, you can capture more than one object, such as menu blocks, buttons and windows.
 
Step-by-step guide.

Text Capture
 
You can capture an object's text instead of image. The result is text and/or a text file. 

(FAQ) I captured a window using 'Text' capture. How come it only takes the title bar text?

Fixed area capture

Capture a pre-defined fixed area on the screen.
The area can be defined by clicking the fixed area size button on the right. Use the mouse and keyboard to adjust the area and press Enter or Space to set. The defined area is shown on the button.

Specific Window 'lock-in' capture

You can "lock-in" and capture a specific window even it's minimized. This is useful when you need to capture a specific window periodically, and it's sometime minimized that you may work on other things.

Step-by-step guide


Settings

Using ScreenHunter, it's easy to capture and edit DOS program screens. 

'DOS full screen program' FAQ

MS-DOS 
Programs

Advanced full screen capture

ScreenHunter can capture full menu, games and screen saver screens with a single key touch.



Game / DirectX / Screen saver screen capture step-by-step guide

(FAQ) I captured a game screen, but it's blue only. How come?

Movie capture is also an option for you to capture movie and video screens.
 
 Movie/video screen capture step-by-step guide.

Freehand
 
You can draw and select any part of image on your screen to capture. There's nothing more flexible than this.

Step-by-step guide.
 
How to make a transparent round image?

 

You can capture a shape, an ellipse, round rectangle area with your shape options. 

Step-by-step guide

More

 
Web capture provides a convenient way to search and download images related to a website on the Internet. It downloads images locally until you are ready to view them.
 
 Step-by-step guide.
 

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Multiple Monitor Support


Setup example

Make sure you have your extended monitor connected to your main PC before using this feature.  

(FAQ) I want to capture a translucent window, but it disappears. How come?

ScreenHunter can automatically capture screens at any given interval. The timer is also flexible to set up duration, so you can monitor and record your PC activities in a secure manner.
 
'Auto-capture' step-by-step guide

(FAQ) The Auto-capture radio button is disabled even if I check on the 'timed capture' checkbox. Why?

Scheduled Capture

You can use a calendar to schedule a capture or capture when program starts.

Step-by-step guide.
 

Recurring Capture

You can set up recurring captures.

Step-by-step guide.
 

Settings

Adding Caption

You can add a caption to your capture.


Settings

Adding Watermark

You can add an image file to your capture as a watermark. It can be resize and with visual effects.


Settings

Adding border & drop shadow to your capture

You can add a border and drop shadow ( you can also add in the Image Editor later).
 

Settings

ScreenHunter can automatically scale all captures to a assigned size. It can be to certain width, height or percentage.
This feature can be used to format you images efficiently for great looking web graphics and images.
 

Settings

You can change brightness and contrast of the capture, or make it negative or gray automatically.
 

Settings

 


More on FAQ?

Captures can be saved with automatically generated file names, so you don't have to stop each time you capture and you can capture as many as you like. 
 
'Automatic file naming' step-by-step guide

Settings

(FAQ) How can I efficiently use the Clipboard feature with Microsoft Word?

ScreenHunter can send your capture directly to the default email outbox.  
 
 If you want to monitor your PC activities every minute, you can use auto-capture to capture screens every minute and send email using the auto-email feature. So you can monitor your PC activities anywhere in the world.
  
 'Auto-email' step-by-step guide
 

Setting

Saving your capture in high quality

E.g. High quality and transparent GIF files
 
GIF and 256 color BMP files are converted with high quality conversion algorisms.
 
You can set a transparent color for your GIF file.



(FAQ) GIF format speed/quality comparison?

(FAQ) What is the JPEG quality factor and what are PNG and GIF good for?

How to make a transparent round image?

Automatically creating a folder of your choice

GIF and 256 color BMP files are converted with high quality conversion algorisms.
 
You can set a transparent color for your GIF file.


Setting

Image Editing to the next level

ScreenHunter Image Editor is an intuitive and versatile multiple image editor. It's a unique combination of a bitmap and vector object editor.

On top of your captured image as bitmap, you can add drawing objects such as arrows and bubbles and adding text. It comes with an array of bitmap editing features, such as cropping to shape and advanced image processing. As well, you will find object features like adding boxes, highlighting cycles, symbols and speech bubbles.

'Capture Editing' step-by-step guide (Part 1)

Drawing and highlighting objects too

Rather than painting directly on an image, you can draw a vector object on a layer that is composited over the image. Object drawing is a shape-based process where every line, brush stroke, and shape is editable.

'Capture Editing' step-by-step guide (Part 2)

Resizing, zooming, and cropping
 
In Image Editor, you can crop and crop to shape and zoom, resize your capture.

Detailed guide

ScreenHunter Image Editor comes with advanced image processing features.

Advanced bitmap image processing feature' detailed guide  

Object features detailed guide  
 
ScreenHunter has many tools for drawing vector objects. You can draw basic shapes, arrows, freehand paths, load symbols and pictures.

Multi-document Viewer

ScreenHunter provides a convenient multi-document viewer and editor.

The original capture can remain in Viewer with the image quality unchanged even it has been saved to a file, such as JPEG. So, you can save the capture as many times as you like with different filing options. 

A profile is a collection of settings you picked on the From and To tab, such as hotkey, what to capture and where to save your captures. You can name a profile and use it any time by point and click.

Profile detailed guide

ScreenHunter ScreenZoom provides a convenient way to enlarge your screen anytime to see what's going on on the screen and draw lines and notes on the screen. This can be integrated into your demo, discussion and training sessions, etc. You also can "freeze" the screen and directly draw on it by using ScreenDraw.

ScreenZoom & ScreenDraw step-by-step guide

Wysiwyg Printing
 
ScreenHunter's Wysiwyg "What You See Is What You Get" printing feature shows the actual image that will be printed on paper.
 
You can send the capture directly to the printer.

Wysiwyg Printing step-by-step guide

You can set and change the hotkey, or select a profile to use. You can press your hotkey on your keyboard anytime to start capturing.
 

Zoom

ScreenHunter provides a screen-wide color picker for picking any color in an image or anywhere on your screen. It shows both the RGB and hexadecimal color code.  
 

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ScreenHunter provides a set of commandline switches for developers to run ScreenHunter from another program.  
 
Commandline switches details