Loaded Screenshot Program: Screenshot Captor [Windows]

By Josh | May 12, 2008

If you’ve been keeping up with my website for a while, then you’ll know that I’m always looking at different software for taking screenshots. I constantly take screenshots for my blog. After I take the screenshot, I open them in GIMP, give them a drop shadow, change the size, and save the image. This is a lengthy process, but it is all made easier with a neat little program that I recently found out about called Screenshot Captor.

Screenshot Captor is from the website Donation Coder, and if you haven’t heard of that site, it has a lot of great freeware. Screenshot Captor will run in your system tray and will pop up a window whenever you take a screenshot. Personally, I turned the popup off, and just allowed it to continue taking screenshots and saving them. The great thing about that is that I can easily take multiple screenshots and edit them at the same time later. This is what the main window looks like with one of my screenshots loaded.

One of my favorite features of this program is the option to add a drop shadow automatically to your screenshots. That means that once you press the print screen key, Screenshot Captor will add the drop shadow and save it for you. As you can see from the screenshot below, there are many other options to add to your screenshots on capture.

It is also very easy to change how the screenshots will be named. You can set it so that it uses the window title as its name, or you could add the date that the screenshot was taken. There are many other options as you can see.

Honestly, there are so many different options that I won’t be able to cover in this post. You’ll just have to try it out for yourself. This is by far my favorite Screenshot taking application that I have used so far. It makes me want to take more screenshots!