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Softonic Rating:
Excellent910
License:
Free (GPL)
Added:
January 11, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
3.6 MB
Downloads:
227
Nick Mead

“Small and simple screenshot tool”

by Nick Mead

Lightscreen is a free, simple and practical utility to capture images for those that don't want to mess about with post processing or resizing tools.

Lightscreen offers three ways to capture screenshots - full screen, active window, and an area that you can select yourself. All three offer you enough scope to capture just about any type of screenshot. You can configure the format, prefix and suffix of the file (numeric or date format) and specify the folder to save it to. You can also configure a hotkey to make screenshots instantaneous. There are also some other additional little additions such as control over image quality or you can also configure a delay on the screen capture if you're using the hotkey. Once configured Lightscreen becomes especially useful to make multiple catches because every time you press capture, it automatically saves a file with the filename, format and parameters that you specified. The slight downside is that you can only configure a limited number of formats to save screenshots in namely PNG, JPG; BMP, PPM, XBM and TIFF.

A free and easy screen capture tool that will appeal to fans of The GIMP or those that just need a simple screenshot solution.

Languages:

English

Lightscreen supports the following formats:

PNG, JPG, BMP, PPM, XBM, TIFF

OS requirements for Lightscreen:

  • OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista
Pros
  • Simple to use
  • Easy to configure
Cons
  • Only saves in limited formats
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This free and open source application offers a very easy, intuitive and lightweight interface for taking screenshots. If you’ve ever used Gimp for taking screenshots then you’ll find yourself immediately comfortable with Lightscreen.

It is compiled with C++ and goes with all 32-bit MS Windows – from Windows 95 to XP (for now its only for Windows, source codes are also available).

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