FastStone Capture is the best program for taking screenshots

When writing various reviews, and just blog posts, a program for taking screenshots is simply necessary. Of course, many people know that Windows itself can do this: press the Print Screen key — the entire visible screen is placed in the buffer, press Alt + Print Screen — the active window gets into the buffer. Using the FastStone Capture program — you are working in the top league of "screenshot creation".

The basic functionality for capturing images of the program is as follows:

• taking a screenshot of the active window or the entire screen;
• saving any object of any window;
• saving a rectangular or polygonal selected screen element;
• capturing a scrollable element in a browser or other program — you can take a screenshot of even the "longest" website.

With the captured elements, you can do the following:

• save in all common web formats;
• cut out any part of the captured screenshot;
• add a description to the screenshot;
• add the ragged edges effect, which has a lot of settings;
• change the screenshot size (the resizing is done according to a good algorithm);
• send to an external editor for editing;
• send by mail or print.

In correction mode, you can add to the screenshot:

• text labels;
• arrows;
• handwritten fragments;
• rectangular and oval selection with or without fill;
• color selection, like a marker on paper;
• watermark from any image.

The program before version 5.5 was distributed absolutely for free, from this version it began to cost $19.95, and therefore either buy it or find an older version on file storages.