Greenshot - a free screenshot tool optimized for productivity

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What is Greenshot?

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others. …and a lot more options simplyfying creation of and work with screenshots every day.
Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots.



Update: Greenshot V.1.0

CHANGE LOG:
We changed the version to 1.0 after 5 years it should no longer have a "beta" feeling!

1.0.6 build 2228 Release

Some features we added since 0.8:
* General: Greenshot will now run in 64 bit mode, if the OS supports it.
* General: Added a dynamic destination picker
* General: Added a preview when using the window capture from the context menu (Windows Vista and later)
* General: Added color reduction as an option and auto detection for image with less than 256 color. When using reduction this results in smaller files.
* General: Added direct printing to a selected printer
* General: Added some additional logic to the IE capture, which makes it possible to capture embedded IE web-sites from other applications.
* General: Changed multi-screen capture behaviour, assuming that capturing all screens is not a normal use-case. Now default behaviour is to capture the one with the mouse-cursor. Also the user can select which screen to capture from the context-menu.
* General: Changed the configuration to use a .ini with some advanced features. Fixed settings can't be changed in the settings. Settings, quicksettings and the Greenshot icon can be disabled. (See greenshot.ini and our website)
* General: Added and update many languages, see our website for the whole listing!
* General: Now one can use the shift key to fix the mouse coordinates while capturing. If you press and hold shift only the first direction in which you move can be change, the other stays fixed.
* General: Added an expert tab in the settings, here some Greenshot behavior can be changed
* General: Added more complex options for the filename generation
* Editor: Added Ctrl/shift logic to the editor, hard to explain (see help) but hold one of the keys down and draw..
* Editor: Added a color picker in the color dialog.
* Editor: Added undo/redo
* Editor: Added effects: shadow, torn edges, invert, border and grayscale
* Editor: Added rotate clockwise & counter clockwise
* Editor: Added freehand tool, this makes it possible to draw some things freehand. Every "stroke" (mouse-down to mouse-up) is one "object" which can be manipulated: move, delete, change Z-order and change the properties like color and thickness.
* Editor: Added auto crop
* Plug-in: Added Confluence plug-in to attach captures to Confluence pages.
* Plug-in: Added JIRA plug-in to attach captures to JIRA tickets.
* Plug-in: Added OCR plug-in, if MODI is available you can capture text from the screen and place it on the clipboard. See our website on pre-requisites for the OCR functionality.
* Plug-in: Added External command plug-in can be used to export captures to some another application or script.
* Plug-in: Added Box.com plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Dropbox plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Flickr plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Imgur plug-in uploads your captures annonymously or to your account
* Plug-in: Added Picasa-Web plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Office plug-in with destinations for Excel, Outlook, Word and Powerpoint

Bugs resolved:
* We resolved so many bugs that the list is actually way to long to show here.

Known issues:
* Greenshot general: a captured I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
* Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. When you want to use e.g. the pause or the Windows key, you will need to be modified the ini directly.
* Greenshot general: Can't capture 256 color screens
* Greenshot general: Hotkeys don't function when a UAC (elevated) process is active. This we won't change as it is a Windows security measure.
* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the screenshot, not the added elements or cursor


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If you want to use Greenshot in another language, simply download the appropriate language file and save it to the “Languages” subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory.
Note:
us.gif
English and
de.gif
German language files are included in the program by default.
 
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Update: 1.1.4 build 2622 Release

CHANGE LOG:

1.1.4 build 2622 Release

Code:
Features added:
*  General: Added zoom when capturing with a option in the settings for  disabling the zoom. (this can also be done via the "z" key while  capturing.)
* General: Better Windows 8 integration: Capture window  from list now has the apps and the interactive window capture is not  confused by apps or the app launcher.
* General: Added Special-Folder  support for the OutputPath/Filenames, now one can use the following  values: MyPictures, MyMusic, MyDocuments, Personal, Desktop,  ApplicationData, LocalApplicationData. Meaning one can now set the  output path to e.g. ${MyPictures}
* General: Greenshot now also comes  as a "for PortableApps" download, this now will be released just like  the other files (installer & .zip)
* Editor: Added a new image  format "Greenshot" which allows the user to save the current state and  continue editing later. (was already in the 1.1.1.2550)
* Editor: The capture is now displayed in the center of the editor, the code for this was supplied by Viktar Karpach.
* Editor: Added horizontal and vertical alignment for text boxes.
* Printing: Added option to force monochrome (black/white) print
* Plug-in: Added Photobucket plugin

Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
*  Bug #1327, #1401 & #1410 : On Windows XP Firefox/java captures are  mainly black. This fix should also work with other OS versions and  applications.
* Bug #1340: Fixed issue with opening a screenshow from the clipboard which was created in a remote desktop
*  Bug #1375, #1396 & #1397: Exporting captures to Microsoft Office  applications give problems when the Office application shows a dialog,  this is fixed by displaying a retry dialog with info.
* Bug #1375: Exported captures to Powerpoint were displayed cropped, which needed extra actions to correct.
* Bug #1378: Picasa-Web uploads didn't have a filename and the filename was shown as "UNSET" in Picasa-Web.
*  Bug #1380: The window corners on Windows Vista & Windows 7 weren't  cut correctly. While fixing this issue, we found some other small bugs  which could cause small capture issues on Vista & 7 it also used  more resources than needed.
* Bug #1386: Resize issues with some the plugin configuration dialogs.
* Bug #1390: Elements in 1.0 are drawn differently as in pre 1.0
* Bug #1391: Fixed missing filename in the Editor title
* Bug #1414: Pasting captures as HTML-inline in Thunderbird doesn't work when using 256-colors.
*  Bug #1418: Fixed a problem with the editor initialization, in some  small cases this gave an error as something happend at the same time.
* Bug #1426: Added some checks for some configuration values, if they were not set this caused an error
* Bug #1442: If copying an image from Outlook via the clipboard the image was cropped
* Bug #1443: Image exports to Microsoft Word didn't have the "Lock aspect ratio" set
*  Bug #1444: Colors were disappearing when "Create an 8-bit image if  colors are less than 256 while having a > 8 bits image" was turned on
* Bug #1462: Auto-filename generation cropping title text after period 
* Bug #1481: when pasting elements from one editor into another the element could end up outside the visible area 
*  Bug #1484, #1494: External Command plug-in issues. e.g. when clicking  edit in the External Command plug-in settings, than cancel, and than  edit again an error occured.
* Bug #1499: Stability improvements for when Greenshot tries to open the explorer.exe
* Bug #1500: Error while dragging an obfuscation
* Bug #1504: InvalidCastException when using the brightness-filter
*  Reported in forum: Fixed a problem with the OCR, it sometimes didn't  work. See:  http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/discussion/676082/thread/31a08c8c
* Not reported: Flickr configuration for the Family, Friend & Public wasn't stored.
* Not reported: If Greenshot is linked in a Windows startup folder, the "Start with startup" checkbox wasn't checked.
* Not reported: Some shortcut keys in the editor didn't respond.
*  Not reported: Fixed some issues with capturing windows that were larger  than the visible screen, logic should now be more reliable.
* Not reported: Fixed some cases where Dragging & Dropping an image from a browser on the editor lost transparency.
* Not reported: Undo while in an Auto-Crop made the editor unusable.
*  Not reported: When first selecting a printer, the main printer  destination has been replaced by the selected one, making the Windows  printer dialog unavailable for further prints
* Not reported: Open last capture in explorer doesn't open the right location
* Not reported: Fixed some issues where the sub-menus of the context menu moved to the next screen.
* Not reported: When having Outlook installed but not the Office plugin there was no EMail destination.
... and more

Languages:
* Added Indonesian
* Installer: Added Spanish
* Installer: Added Serbian
* Installer: Added Finnish
* General: Fixes for many languages

Known issues:
* Greenshot general: a captured I-Beam cursor isn't displayed correctly on the final result.
*  Greenshot general: Not all hotkeys can be changed in the editor. When  you want to use e.g. the pause or the Windows key, you will need to be  modified the ini directly.
* Greenshot general: Can't capture 256 color screens
*  Greenshot general: Hotkeys don't function when a UAC (elevated) process  is active. This we won't change as it is a Windows security measure.
* Greenshot general: Capturing apps on Windows 8 when having more than one screen still causes some issues.
* Greenshot editor: Rotate only rotates the screenshot, not the added elements or cursor
 

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Code:
1.1.7.17-g98c8f59 Bugfix Release Changes:
* We moved our repository to BitBucket (GIT), this forced us to change the build script and the version
 Bugs resolved (for bug details go to http://sourceforge.net/p/greenshot/bugs and search on the ID):
* Bug #1517: (now it is really fixed) export to Microsoft Word always goes to the last active Word instance.
* Bug #1589/#1584 System.NullReferenceException
* Bug #1574: AccessException when loading plugins
 Features:
* Changed the Box plug-in to use the new V2 API, which is mandatory from  13.12.2013. The Box plug-in now needs the .NET 3.5 Full Framework.

Greenshot 1.1.7.17
 
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