Ashampoo Magical Snap Free

Ashampoo Magical Snap Free is a software utility whose main purpose is to aid people in taking multiple screenshots, configuring many options, edit the resulted pictures and save them to the HDD.

You come across a pretty non-obtrusive and minimal interface, as it goes in the system tray from the first launch and displays a small pop-up window on the desktop, so that you can easily start taking snapshots.

Extensive Help contents are incorporated and they make sure that both power and novice users can easily find their way around Ashampoo Magical Snap Free.

This program enables you to take one or multiple snapshots with the entire screen, a predefined selection or a custom area. Aside from that, you can customize a pretty large number of options pertaining to them.

For example, you can choose what format to use for the resulted images (e.g. PNG, BMP, JPG) and the output location, enable a shadow, change the background and shadow color, choose filter, cursor sparkle, picture shape and fader from drop-down menus.

In addition to that you should know that after taking a snapshot, it is possible to edit the resulted image with the help of an incorporated dedicated tool. It lets you add certain geometrical shapes, crop, rotate and resize items, insert text boxes and arrows, highlight a selected area, and use an eraser or pencil.

When you are done editing, you can keep and save the resulted photo to the hard drive, copy it to the Clipboard or e-mail it to others as an attachment, using your default mail client.

To sum up, Ashampoo Magical Snap Free is a pretty efficient piece of software when it comes to taking snapshots, editing and saving them. The interface is friendly to all user categories, the response time is good and there are sufficient options to keep you busy for quite a while. The system’s performance is not going to be burdened as CPU and memory usage is low at all times.