{"id":655937,"date":"2013-05-03T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=147527"},"modified":"2013-05-03T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T09:34:57","slug":"postimage-lets-you-take-edit-and-share-screengrabs-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655937","title":{"rendered":"PostImage lets you take, edit and share screengrabs with ease"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"While the ability to capture and share an image of your screen is extremely useful, it\u2019s not exactly an area where Windows has excelled. Under DOS pressing PrtSc\u00a0sent an image of your screen to the printer; under Windows 3.x the grab was copied to the clipboard; after more than 20 years, Windows 8 added the ability to save an image by pressing Win+PrtSc; and that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like something a little more capable, then, it\u2019s probably best to forget Microsoft and look for a third-party solution. And if you\u2019re particularly interested in sharing screengrabs then PostImage<\/a> could make an excellent choice.<\/p>\n

After a simple and adware-free installation, PostImage runs in the background, consuming a reasonable 10MB RAM. Press PrtSc at any point and you\u2019re able to choose a rectangular area of the screen which you\u2019d like to capture, or you can press Alt+PrtSc to capture the currently active window.<\/p>\n

While this sounds fairly standard, the area capture is at least very well implemented. Once you\u2019ve defined a rectangle, PostImage displays its dimensions in pixels, for instance. And you can freely resize and reposition this until it matches whatever you need.<\/p>\n

After grabbing something, you\u2019re able to work on it with the PostImage editor. The program can crop or rotate the image; annotate it with shapes, arrows or captions, or add a shadow, outline, even a watermark (text or image-based).<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re finished (or if you don\u2019t need to edit the screengrab at all), PostImage provides many different ways to share it with others. You can upload it to the PostImage server (postimg.org) and receive a direct link. There are options to share the link via Twitter, Facebook or Reddit, while an Email tool opens your default New Message dialog, with the image link already inserted.<\/p>\n

And there are a few other options, too, ranging from the simple (Save, Print) to the more surprising, in particular a tool which uses Google to find images which resemble your capture. We grabbed our Start menu on a Windows 7 test PC, for instance, and PostImage opened a web page with the search results for “Windows 7 start menu”, and links to similar images.<\/p>\n

\"\"PostImage clearly isn\u2019t going to appeal to everyone. The program doesn\u2019t have the extended capture types you\u2019ll sometimes see elsewhere (freehand, say). You can\u2019t configure\u00a0the\u00a0hotkey. And the program is short on automation options. You might want to always save an image, maybe print or upload it, but there\u2019s no way to set a default action — you must\u00a0select it manually, each and every time.<\/p>\n

If you just need a more convenient way to take and share simple grabs of your desktop, though, PostImage<\/a> works very well. It\u2019s free, compact and easy to use, with a capable editor and plenty of image sharing options. So even if you need a little more power, this is a program to watch: it\u2019s not even at version 1.0 yet, and we\u2019ve no doubt that there\u2019s plenty more to come.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> Iaroslav Neliubov<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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