{"id":170,"date":"2011-09-03T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:17:47","slug":"windows-apps-i-love-greenshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/windows-apps-i-love-greenshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Apps I Love: Greenshot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have become a fan of Prefs.org<\/a> which got me thinking about apps I love and how I choose to use them. Being a geek, when I get a new application one of the first things I do is go into the settings or preferences and see what I can tweak. I talked about Greenshot<\/a> before in an earlier Things I Love<\/a> post.<\/p>\n

I work in IT Support and user’s kept requesting Snag-It, a commercial screen capture application. I wanted to find a free alternative since most people don’t need the advanced features Snag-It provides. Greenshot fit the bill perfectly. ((I think Lifehacker ran a small article about it and I liked it more than the alternatives I found.))<\/p>\n

Greenshot<\/a> is a free, powerful screen capture application for Windows. It allows capture of a region, full screen or single window.<\/p>\n

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I speak English but the application is available in a hand full of languages. I register the hotkeys to make screen grabs easier. It is also vital to launch Greenshot at startup so it’s available when I need it.<\/p>\n

I prefer to Show flashlight so I know a screenshot has been taken. I usually keep my computer muted or if I am listening to music, I don’t want the camera sound to play.<\/p>\n

I hide the mouse pointer so it doesn’t mess up my screenshots. I don’t need the delay when I grab the screen so I don’t use the interactive window capture mode.<\/p>\n

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After the capture, I like to keep all my screenshots in a single folder sorted by date and copy it to the clipboard so I can drop it into an email or a document. Since I do a lot of documentation write ups and walk-throughs this saves me a step.<\/p>\n

Since I never know when I might want the screenshot again, I like keeping them organized by date and time so I can go back and look for them.<\/p>\n

I store each image in a Screenshot folder and as I mentioned they’re named based on date with a trailing number since the hours, minutes and seconds made the file names too long.<\/p>\n

I have a personal preference for png. The application also supports gif, jpg and bmp. I ignore the jpeg quality setting because I have no need for it.<\/p>\n

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I never print our my screenshots so I’ve left all the printer default checked. Something about 72dpi images printed out makes me cringe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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