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Screen captures are useful for various reasons. You can use them to highlight a certain aspect of a program to friends, make presentations or explain a technical problem you’re having. At Softonic, we usually use SnagIt to take screenshots but MWSnap does the job equally as well and best of all, it’s completely free.
MWSnap is a small but powerful screen capture program capable of taking whole desktop shots, a highlighted window, an active menu or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. It can save images in all of the major image formats (JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG and GIF) and also includes a zoom, a ruler and a colour picker. However, one of the most useful features specific to MWSnap is the autosave feature. This is brilliant for when you are filling in forms online and need to keep the details safe – just one click and it’s all saved automatically. MWSnap seems to be able to capture just about anything too – any size, shape or form. If something on the screen is too small you can always magnify it and capture it that way.
On the downside, the selection of hotkeys is limited. For example, you can’t just simply assign the PrtScn key to save screenshots. You have to use a combination of Shift, Ctrl, Alt and the function keys to take screenshots without the mouse. It could also do with a few more editing features such as the snazzy faded and jagged edge effects available in SnagIt. Some users also find that memory usage shoots up when taking captures which can make your system unstable although we didn’t experience this.
All in all, this an excellent free screen capture tool although if you’re looking for advanced editing features, you’d be better with SnagIt or FastStone Capture.
A simple tool to instantly capture your PC screen
An intuitive screen capturing tool
Snapshots of all screen elements with ease
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. The current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles the 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.
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Great little application that I have been using for years. It gets around so many issues I have had presenting things.
Have taken 10,000 snaps using MW Snap over 10 years. Best there is. Because of it's functionality. Have tried 10 others.
Ease of use is incredible. Used it for years, from original MWSnap thru MWSnap2 and now MWSnap3. ease of use incredible. Pros: Ease of useAbility to save in different formats
Great snipping tool - outperforms others I have used.. I have used this tool for nearly 10 years. It's the best tool on the market. I have donated just because I believe in the product and the developer's sense of usefulnes.
Great for using multiple screen captures. The View tab makes this a very useful screen capture program. View lets you select from hundreds of previously captured images. Problem is when trying to print directly from the program. The size of the image is hard to control. Otherwise just paste the image into the program of your choice and print it from there. Pros: being able to get past screen capturesvery easy to select the size of the screen capture Cons: The printing function prints unexpected sized images.It needs a Print Preview option.
Love this ...but. I`ve used MWsnap for over a year on my lappy and think it`s really awsome.I`ve just built my own desktop and for some reason MWsnap won`t work with hot keys. I can`t find any faqs or link to forum to ask in. Pros: Hot key area snap for taking images of portions of web pages. Cons: None except this little problem using it on my new PC using Win7 home premium 64
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