FastStone Capture

A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling...

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Windows

faststone capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet fullfeatured screen capture and screen recording tool that allows for capturing and annotating anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages.other notable features include an eyedropper color selection, a resizeable onscreen ruler, a magnify glass tool, and pixelexact cropping via arrow keys.

until version 5.3 (feb 2007) the application used to be freeware. this version is still available on the net (see comments).

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Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots Lightweight Image Annotations Capture mouse pointer Join Images

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