Friday, 12 October 2007

Screen Capture with ScreenHunter

I'm currently building a You-Tube styles video application. A sub-task of this is to create thumbnail images of all the videos in the player, and this is turning out to be quite a labourious print-screen-athon. I was having to print screen, past into a new Fireworks doc, crop the image to the size I wanted, export and save x 70 odd times. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Having seen the graphic deisgner in our office using a screen capture tool on his Mac the other day, I've gone about the task of finding something similar for Windows and after a quick Google search Ive discovered the following nifty free little tool called 'Screen Hunter'. Does everything I need and saves loads of time, mouse clicks and my sanity! Press F6 to start the capture tool, click and drag the rectangle to capture the area of the screen you want and your in! You can save to JPG or GIF and to a folder you specify on your PC.

Free Screen Capture - ScreenHunter

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