KSnapshot: My KDE App of the Day
Every once in a while I will be using an application which is unique to KDE and think “Wow this is really neat” or “I don’t know how to live without this tool”. Today that application is KSnapshot.
KSnapshot is a simple screen capture tool that does way more than your every day print screen. As a designer, this tool is essential when I do interface reviews or prepare client briefings. Along with taking screen captures of the entire screen or individual windows, it also allows you to draw and select a region to capture, select a specific windowing element such as a toolbar or menu, and also has options to remove window decorations. You can then choose what you want to do with the image, such as directly saving to file (it auto-increments the previous filename which is nice for interface documentation), copying directly to clipboard (what I used the most for note taking and client briefings), or sending directly to printer (paper copies are good to draw on and take notes).
If I did the same thing in Windows, I would spend half of my time in Photoshop cutting up pieces of screen and recreating menus.
There is little I would change about KSnapShot except for a few very minor things. I’d like to set the default file type for saving images. Being able to select a region on a window is incredibly powerful, but sometimes it gets tricky to select certain elements. It would be great if when using the region selector to be able to resize the box before commiting, sort of how the crop tool works.
Overall, my daily life is made better by KSnapshot. Rock on!
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seele :: Feb.26.2007 :: Design, General, KDE/Kubuntu :: 12 Comments »
The Windows native feature is really poor, that’s true. But there are some freeware to enhance it. Here is one I found useful :
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
There is a cool feature of FSCapture that doesn’t exist in ksnapshot : when you do a capture of a region, there is a magnifying glass to help you to be precise.
How did you take a snapshot of the snapshot interface ????
http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap.html
afaik, KSnapshot remembers the last image format used to save the shot and uses that as the default for succeeding shots, unless changed again. So if you take a snapshot and save it as JPEG, it will save all snapshots as JPEG.
Don’t forget that you can drag the preview image into any application you want and go on from there. :-)
Just for fun, here’s a screenshot of ksnapshot from KDE 1.1. :-)
http://www.linux.sky.pl/teksty/kde/ksnapshot.gif
I use IrfanView on Windows for taking screenshots:
http://www.irfanview.com/
Free and works perfectly.
Yeah I like KSnapshot a lot, that you for posting this, if you didn’t I wouldn’t have known about the fact that you can select an area of the screen to save as an image. Is there any way to make this happen using a keyboard shortcut?
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There is Cropper for Windows - http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx
It works exactly like a crop tool you were describing, perhaps the developers of KSnapshot can borrow ideas from it :)
@Anti Veeranna:
KSnapshot already has this featue, under capture mode select “Region” and it will allow you select an area on the screen. The only problem with this is that it is not that appearant to most people (I have been using KDE for abour 4 years and only recently found it) and there is no shortcut to automatically do it so you don’t have to open up KSnapshot, select Region, and hit New Snapshot.
*hint* *hint* idea’s for KDE 4.0 ;)
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