Crop and capture screen software/plugin for Windows 7

Question

Does anyone know of any software or a browser extension that lets me capture what's on my screen and crop it by ratio?

I have Photoshop but don't want to keep opening it just to capture a simple image, crop it, and save it. I want to be able to quickly select a portion on my screen and save it. If it's possible it should let me crop by ratio (e.g. 4:3).

I will mostly be capturing in my browser - either Chrome or Firefox - but I can't find a good extension that meets my requirements.

Answer 1

Have you tried ZScreen? It is highly configurable. I like the ability to have the capture image automatically appear in a lightweight editor before saving/copying. You can crop, etc. in this editor.

It uses the same editor as Greenshot, which is another alternative to purchasing SnagIt.

Answer 2

I did something crazy the other day. I bought software! Tech Smith has a new version of Snagit that is outstanding. Their revisions and improvements are fantastic (like auto saving to a library, all in one capture, video capture, etc). It runs in the background, does not consume much memory and I assigned a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl, shift + A), so at any time with my left hand I can capture anything in an instant.

Rich

Answer 3

How about just opening Paint to paste your screen shot and crop it?

Also, if you have Office OneNote it has a lightweight companion utility that can do exactly what you want.

Answer 4

The two below operate from the browser but are online:

• Aviary Screen Capture & Quick Launch is free, but you do have to be logged on for it to work.

• Pixlr Grabber requires Flash to work - free online edit, share, save.

Answer 5

There seems to be no easy way of doing this.

You could do it as a two shot process.

Use your current screenshot package to take your screenshots, and then use imagemagick to crop to the specified aspect ratio. You'd need to write some kind of program around the imagemagick as I can't see an easy way of cropping to a specific aspect ratio whilst keeping the width constant.

A second option would be to ask for this as a feature (or make the change yourself) in an open source piece of software like greenshot.

Answer 6

Cropper & Snipping Tool (available natively in the Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows 7) are free screen capture utilities that you can try.

Both the tools however cannot resize images

Answer 7

I also need to capture the screen, crop, and resize quickly. I'm proficient with Photoshop, but launching it every time I want to capture the screen is a pain in the neck. I've tried a few software programs that can quickly do it for me. So far the best one I found is IrfanView.

Their website is bit scary but the software is great and I think is exactly what you are looking for!

Answer 8

I recommend signing up for CloudApp and then installing FluffyApp.

With this all the images are stored on your account and you can select a part of the screen which you want the screenshot for using a keyboard shortcut.