Pressing the PrintScreen and ALT keys at the same time captures a screenshot of the active window only – useful for capturing dialog boxes and smaller windows. However, LightShot enhances the traditional PrintScreen and adds far more functionality. LightShot is an easy to use screen capture program which can do a lot more than Windows – you can select just part of an area, create a web-link to the copied image for quick sending to friends/posting online and save the screenshot directly to computer. Free, simple and quick screenshot tool.Fast screenshot of selected area – allows you to select any area of the desktop and capture it with 2 clicks.Powerful capture – can capture video, Flash Player and Java screenshots too.
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Save screenshots direct to PC – without having to paste into a graphics editor first.Displays size of selected area in pixels – useful to crop a particular sized image. Share Screenshots via the internet – upload your screenshots to server (uses Imageshack) to get a fast web-link to it.Copy screenshot to clipboard – and paste into any suitable application such as Word, Paint, Photoshop etc. Online editor – edit your screenshots as soon as you made them (uses Pixlr Editor).Quick send buttons for Twitter and Facebook or choose Email to get the web-link and post it to a blog/anywhere. LightShot is available as a free Windows program from the developers here (see Installation Note below) – designed for XP, Vista and Windows 7.Īlternatively, there is a standalone LightShot browser add-on for Firefox here (5 star ratings) or an extension for Google Chrome here (4.57 star ratings).