Comments on: How to Take Easy Screenshots with Lightscreen Portable

By: Dean Sherwin

Dean Sherwin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:25:08 +0000

Great post Tim

By: Tim Lenahan

Tim Lenahan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:43:43 +0000

I haven’t done much with the windows snipping tool yet. Good to know Vista comes with it.

Perhaps different tools are better for different applications. I do like the speed at which I can grab and automatically have the shots saved to a folder with Lightscreen. Other tools may make it easier for notations though.

By: Tim Lenahan

Tim Lenahan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:40:03 +0000

OK, now that is a cool feature to offer!

By: Kuba

Kuba — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:37:41 +0000

I prefer open source greenshot on greenshot.sourceforge.net

Does the ob in the best way for me and has internal editor for adding pointy red arrows ! which are a must

By: nick

nick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:16:38 +0000

Editing straight after a capture and naming the file is what’s important to me. Both are done well in windows snipping tool so I don’t really see the point of installing anything else, or am I missing something?

By: ILoveFreeSoftware

ILoveFreeSoftware — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:37:57 +0000

This looks like a pretty good and easy to use software. My favorite one is Gadwin Printscreen. The biggest reason for that is Gadwin lets me directly open the snapshot in the program of my choice. So, as soon as I take a screenshot, it is immediately opened in Paint.Net so that I can quickly edit it.

By: Tim Lenahan

Tim Lenahan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:48:24 +0000

Lightscreen does offer file naming options under the “general” tab in the options menu.

By: dp

dp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:44:40 +0000

I’ve used a variety of capture tools, like Snap Shooter, Screenshot Captor, Snagit, GrabScreen and others. The most useful features are the file naming options, so that I can make a series that are named or numbered in a useful way.

However, there’s one feature I’ve been after for some time, and that’s a similar utility for auto-inserting EXIF or IPTC info. Anyone know of a screencap app that writes IPTC info? I’d like to have a text file list of categories, then have any given picture or series auto-encoded with a selection from that list.