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Capture and share screen images easily

Capture and share screen images easily

May 31, 2012 by neomie • VeryPDF Online Tools • Tags: , , , , , , • 0 Comment •

You can use VeryPDF ScreenShot, a total free software application, to capture screen images and share them online quickly and easily. VeryPDF ScreenShot also provides a image editor and a text editor, with the help of which, you can add text and draw on the captured images. The following part shows how to capture screen images, edit screen images, upload screen images and share screen images .

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1. Open VeryPDF ScreenShot

First of all, you can Free Download VeryPDF ScreenShot and install it on your computer. Normally, the application launched automatically. So, after installing it, you will find an icon which looks like a pen on the task bar at the bottom of your computer. Then, you can proceed to the next step. If you can’t find the icon on the task bar, you can double click the shortcut icon on desktop to open this tool.

2. Set Options

Right click the icon on the task bar, and the menu as follows will appear. Please do as follows:

  • Image editor setting

The default setting is to open the image editor automatically after capturing image on screen. In case you want to reset it, you can do as follows: move the mouse cursor to Quick settings—>hover over Screenshot destination—> click on the check box before Open in image editor.

  • Image upload setting

If you want to upload the captured images immediately, you can set as follows:  move the mouse cursor to Quick settings—>hover over Screenshot destination—> click on the check box before Share screenshot online.

You can also set options to save and print the captured images immediately after capturing screen images. 

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3. Capture screen images

To start capturing a screen image, you can do as follows: click Capture region on the menu. –>drag the mouse on the screen to select a region, –> release the mouse. The image will be opened by the built-in image editor.

4. Edit screen image

You can use the image editor to add text, draw rectangles and ellipse on the screen image. The tool bar on the left side of the interface can be used to add lines, lines with arrows, rectangles, ellipses and text on the image. The tools change color of screen shots  above the list box can be used to change the color of lines and fill color.

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5. Share screenshots online

You can also click the Share button share screenshots online to upload and share the modified image instantly. The images will be uploaded to online.verypdf.com’s gallery. You can send the link to your friends through twitter, facebook,email and blog.

How to Use VeryPDF ShareShot?

How to Use VeryPDF ShareShot?

May 25, 2012 by neomie • VeryPDF Online Tools • Tags: , , , , , , • 0 Comment •

VeryPDF Shareshot is a free software application designed to help your capture any region on your computer screen, and  share the screenshots instantly. You can use it to capture images, windows, dialog box, text, or whole screen and share them instantly in Face book, blogs, twitters, etc. The following shows how to use this free screenshot tool.

VeryPDF Shareshot

1. Open VeryPDF ShareShot

You can double click the shortcut icon image  on your desktop to open this free tool. Then, you will find the icon appear on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Then you can proceed to the next step.

 

2. Activate a capture mode

Please click the icon on the taskbar, and a menu appears as illustrated below.  Please choose any of the three capture modes to start capturing screen shots.

Three capture modes:

  • Capture region mode—selecting Capture region on the menu or pressing Print on the keyboard, you can activate the region mode and start to capture any area on your screen.
  • Capture window mode—choosing Capture window on the menu or hitting Alt+Print on the keyboard, you can activate the capture window mode to capture windows by clicking on the window you want to capture.
  • Capture full screen mode—clicking on Capture full screen on the menu, or hitting Ctrl+Print, you can activate the full screen mode to capture the whole screen instantly.

Three capture creenshot modes

VeryPDF Shareshot can also automatically remember the last screenshot, so if you choose Capture last region, you don’t have to repeat the action you’ve just done.

 

3. Capture screenshots

  • 3.1. If choose capture region, you can capture any area on screen as follows:

Keep pressing the left mouse button down and dragging a rectangle on the screen.

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Releasing the mouse button, you will find the built-in image editor on the screen as below. 

view image on image editor

  • 3.2. If choose Capture window, the windows or dialog boxes on the screen will be frozen, and you can click on the window or dialog box you want to capture. The built-in image editor will be openned instantly with the selected window or dialog box in the editor interface.
  • 3.3. If choose Capture full screen, the whole screen will be frozen, and you need to click on any point on the screen before the image editor window is opened. 

 

4. Edit image

In the built-in image editor, you can add rectangles, lines, text boxes, ellipses on the screenshot you have just captured.

Add elements—you can click the icons on the tool bar on the left side of the image editor to add rectangles, lines, ellipses, arrows and text on the screenshot you have captured.

Edit elements—If you want to change the thickness of lines, fill color of rectangles or ellipses, font style of text, you can click on image at first, and then do as follows:

  • To edit the text, please click on the text box and drag it to move it, or you can double click on it to open the text edit window, and then change the text font stype, size, color,etc.
  •  To change rectangles’ color, please click on the added rectangles, and then click   image  to change the line color, and click image to change the full color of the rectangles.

                         

5. Share screenshots

After  adding text, rectangles, arrows, etc, you can share the edited screenshots instantly. Please click the Share button image, the screenshot will be uploaded to VeryPDF Online gallery immediately, and share the link with your friends.