Screenshot Software Reviews & Comparisons 2014

Images are an essential part of any piece of information online, right from product descriptions to tutorials. From a technical viewpoint, even Google’s Search Engine Optimization algorithms love to have original and high quality images and videos on Web pages, which force them to give a high rank to such pages. This itself encourages most of us to include a set of images and videos to view.

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Many times, it becomes essential to capture screenshots of images on a computer and record a video for a presentation or tutorial. This is exactly where you need a screen capture application, as it is designed to capture images easily.

The best screen capture application allows capturing objects both offline and online. After taking a screenshot, it usually allows e-mailing and printing the image in multiple layouts. Well, there are several features or criteria that you need to check while deciding the most suitable screen capture application. Let’s find out!

Intuitive Interface

This is something that ensures quick and smooth learning curve, which means that even the beginners can easily explore the application. Usually, the selected or promising tool should have easy navigation options so that it does not take much time in exploring the features and functionalities. After all, this feature ensures ease of use!

Capturing Options

There might be no point in having a free tool that allows capturing only images. Therefore, it is wise to buy a reasonably priced tool that comes with a range of capturing options, such as menus, videos, partial or full Web pages or desktop screen, scrolling, direct X apps, game, and timer-controlled capture.

Further, a few tools also allow you to schedule capturing tasks to take captures at frequent intervals. This is essential for increasing the productivity if frequent captures are indispensable.

Recording Performance

This criterion indicates how well the application can capture videos from a given source. For this, you need to consider what the application can record at what speed. Even the quality, audio recording clarity, and file saving options matter.

However, this is dependent on the recording tools that the application supports or has them embedded. In case of video recording, many tools can record online streaming videos, chats, microphone audio, and videos stored on DVDs.

Editing and Customization Options

This criterion is perhaps the most significant one to check, as it renders maximum value to a screen capture tool. The best tool should come with a maximum range of editing options for inserting comments, highlighting specific areas of a recording or capture with a virtual marker, or converting multiple files simultaneously.

You can even change the size without affecting the quality and add personal effects such as transitions. Further, the application even should have chrome color option, hotkeys, merge and split options, and filters for professional editing.

File Formats Supported

Well, these need to be as many as possible. You never know which file format you will need for an image or video. Generally, file formats taking less storage space online are preferred but it is best to choose an application that saves the captures and recordings in different formats. 

Sharing Utility

Many screen capture tools allow exporting the output file to different editors or for saving them in different formats. Apart from that, they also enable the users to upload the output directly to YouTube, Google Drive, Facebook, and Dropbox. This is something that the professionals would love to have, regardless from which they come from!

Well, these are some features or criteria that you need to consider, if you are looking for a comprehensive screen capture tool to give you more value for your money.