Ashampoo Snap Changelog

What's new in Ashampoo Snap 15.0.1

Mar 8, 2023
  • Offers numerous new features and improvements that make capturing screenshots and screen recordings even easier and more effective.

New in Ashampoo Snap 11.0.0 (Nov 11, 2019)

  • New user interface and operating concept
  • Capture screenshots and videos from your desktop
  • More visual clarity during recording and editing
  • Optimized settings for auto-features
  • High-res captures up to 4K resolution
  • Top-of-the-line sound recordings
  • More customizable WMV recordings
  • New codecs for better video quality
  • Simple video editing
  • Multi-display support
  • Send or upload images and videos to social networks and clouds
  • Record videos up to 4K with lossless audio support

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.1.0 (Jul 24, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • All New Audio Capture:
  • Captures every audio played through speakers (Soundcard, HDMI, etc.).
  • "Stereo-mix" support is not required anymore.
  • User can configure audio bitrate 96 Kbit to 320 Kbit for WMV recording.
  • Classic audio recording for microphone, stereo-mix is still available.
  • Improved Video Capture:
  • Optimized routines for 4K recording (a good cpu is still needed, but it is less laggy and sufficient for common tasks).
  • New presets for choosing video and audio quality (low, medium, high, very high).
  • The bitrate is chosen automatically depending on the preset and the resolution.
  • The old screen codec in the lowest quality setting ("record app") was replaced
  • By WMV7 as this benefits the user more. However, the screen codec may still be chosen in the custom codec settings page.
  • Changes:
  • None.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Recording audio with disk cache encoding may result in asynchron audio and video.
  • Opening different WMV and AVI files may hang editor.
  • Some security fixes.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.8 (Feb 4, 2019)

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.7 (Jun 26, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • High DPI on Windows 8.1
  • Video editing of large video files (3+ hours duration).

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.6 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Arrow head style not saved correctly.
  • Associating with snapdoc file type.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.5 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Video Capture: Preset "Application" not working with 4K resolution.
  • Wrong file time shown in tooltips on some systems.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.4 (Oct 18, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Videoeditor initially scales video miniatures to 100% and loads faster.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Resizing captures with width or height greater 100.000 pixels.
  • Bars appearing although edit mode window obscured by other apps.
  • B2B values from HKLM instead of HKCU

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.3 (Jun 12, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Updated fixed-size resolutions.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Color skin missing graphic files.
  • Capturing maximized apps cutted off partially.
  • Unable to edit values in edit mode on touch screen displays.
  • Webcam single capture did not work.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.2 (May 17, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Selection Tool: Default aspect ratio set to none.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Capture Single Window: Misaligned border on High-DPI desktops.
  • Many dialogs lost focus in edit mode in full screen.
  • Crash in full screen capture and different resolution
  • Video Capture Whiteboard: entering space for text did not work.
  • Display of big captures in high zoom in edit mode.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.1 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • JPG: Appname written not anymore to EXIF description.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Capture 3D game crash if resolution different.
  • Timed capture blue border.
  • Import settings check existing skin names.
  • Texteditor looses focus.
  • PrintDlg settings loose focus.
  • Crash getting miniature for video file.

New in Ashampoo Snap 10.0.0 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • VIDEO EDITING (WMV only, WMV is the default and prefered video format):
  • Trim or cut parts of a video. Strip the end of an oversized video or cut ads from within a video.
  • All operations work lossless. No video quality is lost when editing a video! Every cut may be undone once.
  • Export parts of a video into standalone video files. This can be used to seperate different episodes into different video files. Or to export a short movie scene it even may be exported to a GIF animation).
  • Append video files with the same width and height. This can be useful to concatenate different episodes of a movie into a single file.
  • An easy to use timeline interface to do the actual work.
  • FULL PER-MONITOR-DPI SUPPORT:
  • Modern Multi-Monitor-Systems nowadays often use different DPI settings for each monitor.
  • The GUI of Snap (eg Editmode Window) does automatically detect each monitor DPI and reloads and scales the interface accordingly to the monitor it is shown on. EDIT MODE WINDOWED SUPPORT:
  • For the first time in 10 years it is now possible to use the Editmode GUI in windowed mode!
  • The user can switch between fullscreen and windowed display and the application automatically saves this setting.
  • In windowed mode the Editmode can be used on monitor chosen by the user.
  • CAPTURE WEBSITE URL:
  • Snap automatically detects if the screenshot grabbed is part of a website and saves the URL accordingly (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge).
  • The URL is saved within the metadata of the screenshot (PNG, JPG).
  • The URL is shown as a text object below the screenshot.
  • When sending the screenshot from within Editmode by email, then the screenshot is automatically linked to this URL in the email window (outlook only). The URL is also shown as text link.
  • The user may adjust the detection of URL.
  • VIDEO CAPTURE:
  • Greatly improved watermarking for video recording.
  • All settings may be changed in the video effects dialog.
  • Activated watermark settings are shown instantly within the video recording area, so that the user knows how the watermarking will look like in the video.
  • The video control window may be dragged at the title bar.
  • The default video recording preset automatically adjust the used bitdepth depending on the size of the resolution the video will be recorded in. So, the higher the resoltion, the higher the bitdepth.
  • FULLSCREEN 3D GAMES CAPTURE:
  • A new technique offers the possibility to capture most fullscreen 3D games.
  • It is sufficient to press the PrintScreen key for this to work, as Snap automatically detects if a fullscreen game is running and uses the correct capture automatically.
  • This requires Win 8.1 or later.
  • Some games do not work with this technique. Most of the time, however, this is caused the capture hotkeys (the trigger) being blocked by the game. In such a case only a timed capture works. (For example: Set a timer for every 10th second, and then start the game).
  • RESTRUCTURED SETTINGS:
  • All settings have been moved and restructured into a single main settings dialog.
  • The option "single capture / multiple captures" has been replaced by the option to set the output (output to Editmode, output to directory, output to Clipboard, output to App). This way it is easier to use and easier to understand for novice users.
  • EDIT MODE TOOLS:
  • The Hilight-Marker auto-detects whether the capture contains mostly a dark or light background and adjusts the color accordingly. This is ideal when marking dark areas as many modern GUIs and websites use black interfaces.
  • Numbered buttons may be configured to use bold or outline text style.
  • Select/Cut operations have been optimized for easier use.
  • OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Audio capture device detection improved (primary sound capture device)
  • Progress animation when doing time consuming operations (eg export big video file)
  • Hotkey for capture only main monitor (Shift+Printscreen)
  • General speed optimization throughout the whole application.
  • CloudCopy: Detects OwnCloud client.
  • BUGS FIXED:
  • Capturebars wrongly positioned on Multi-Monitor-Systems with great DPI difference.
  • Website Freestyle Capture in Google Chrome.
  • Tray Icon visible after Edit Mode close.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.5 (Jan 11, 2017)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Some AshInet/stability issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.4 (Dec 16, 2016)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • HighDPI GUI issues.
  • Some stability issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.3 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • Some stability issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.2 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • OCR: User can choose among available languages. This improves OCR results greatly.
  • Changes:
  • Video recording: Watermarking uses xy-positions configured in edit mode.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Some OCR issues.
  • Some translation GUI issues.
  • Some stability issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.1 (Jun 2, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • Object boundary markers visible again while moving object.
  • Faster start up of edit mode, especially on high resolution monitors.
  • Importer detects Snap 2017.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • High DPI on Multi-Monitor-Systems due to Windows 10 Updates.
  • Disappearing tray menu while video recording active.
  • Importer Dialog not showing a single entry.
  • Hotkey for VideoCaptureStop not working.
  • 75% cpu usage while playing (or pausing) any video in edit mode.
  • Crash with certain OpenWithApp-Entries.
  • Crash on exiting Snap.
  • Video recording not yet started, canceling, yes/no box, on yes video
  • started recording.
  • Ctrl+F1 still active for crash reporter.
  • Text on some message boxes not completely readable if high DPI system.

New in Ashampoo Snap 9.0.0 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Global Output Configuration:
  • Send any capture to any other app:
  • From within Edit Mode every capture can be sent to user specified apps with a single click.
  • For example a capture might be sent to another photo editing app, or to some online app like Evernote.
  • Automatically bypass the Edit Mode:
  • Is it also possible to configure the global output mode of Snap. This way a user can quickly configure Snap to send all further taken captures to a user-specific app.
  • Another output option, beside apps, is to send every capture to the Windows Clipboard automatically. These settings may be changed quickly from within the tray menu.
  • Microsoft Edge Support & Browser Clipboard Monitoring:
  • Edge Users can use the inbuilt editing tools from within Edge and use the "cut" command to automatically send the website to Snap.
  • This way Edge users can capture whole (long) websites with a single snap!
  • Snap monitors the Clipboard of FireFox, Chrome, IE and Edge. Whenever a user copies a photo to the Clipboard, it will be snapped by Snap. Of course this behaviour may be configured by the user.
  • Capture Video Whiteboard:
  • No need to edit a video afterwards - just draw and add text while the video is recording. It's as simple as that!
  • Use the marker with different colors and styles to draw markers, arrows and to mark important areas.
  • Use the text tool to add descriptions, explanations or any other words one might want the viewer to know.
  • The text tool might be used to create Meme-Videos (in conjunction with Export-GIF).
  • Capture Video Improvements:
  • Pressed keys are monitored and graphically displayed. For example, if a user presses Ctrl+F5 during recording, then the viewer will see this in the video.
  • Option to stop recording automatically once the video recorded stops playing. Snap will detect if a video stream does not change for an amount of time and will stop the recording process, if this option is active.
  • The capture video window can be moved, even while the recoding is active.
  • Video Export GIF Animation:
  • Export any recorded video to an animated GIF.
  • Choose between presets for common FPS and resolution and color settings.
  • Edit Mode Multi Monitor Support:
  • Edit Mode shows on the monitor the capture was taken.
  • The user can configure on which monitor the edit mode shall open.
  • Editing Objects:
  • Polyline Tool: New option to don't show any intersection graphic.
  • Selection Tool: New free aspect ratio option beside 1:1 aspect ratio.
  • Marker Tool: Rectangular marker tool works the same way as the marker pen.
  • The previous marking method is still accessible.
  • Export Object:
  • Every object may be exported as a PNG graphic or copied as a bitmap to the Windows Clipboard (Right-Click menu). This works for arrows, text, etc elements as well!
  • Export Photoshop PSD: All objects are exported as layer graphics (previously only bitmap objects were exported).
  • Number Tool: Support for alphabet characters (not limited to numbers anymore).
  • Copy Object: Hold Shift key and drag the mouse to copy any object.
  • Editing Tools / Actions:
  • Watermark Tool:
  • Option to set different positions for both text and graphic elements.
  • Copy To Clipboard Action:
  • Ctrl+Shift+C copies the path as text to the Windows Clipboard.
  • Ctrl+C copies the capture as bitmap to the Windows Clipboard.
  • Social Media:
  • Facebook Action renamed to Social Media.
  • Can send captures to both Facebook or Twitter.
  • Other Improvements:
  • Capture:
  • Added more fixed resolutions to choose from.
  • Improved capture of correct mouse cursor when doing a snap.
  • Restructured Settings:
  • The configuration dialog has been reordered to ease finding common Settings a user might want to change.
  • New Options:
  • Enable/Disable automatic crash reports.
  • Enable/Disable HTML emails for Outlook.
  • Capture Bar:
  • New sub menu for less often used commands (OCR, timed capture, pipette, capture menu). This way the main Capture Bar is less complicated.
  • OCR supports japanese language.
  • Added Exit button in configure dialog.
  • BUGS FIXED:
  • Timed capture: return key was not working.
  • Printer dlg preselected the wrong printer device in case there were printer decives with a similar name.
  • Saving capture may not saved the last change made.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.10 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Context menu disappearing
  • Crash reporting server configuration

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.9 (Mar 11, 2016)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed-sizes menu disappearing
  • Various other fixes

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.8 (Mar 11, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • Updates crash reporter to 1.4.3.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • High-DPI message shown on Windows 8.0.
  • ICO decoder with PNG compressed frames.
  • Various other fixes.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.7 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Works with High-DPI on Windows 7
  • Works with Per-Monitor-DPI on Windows 10/8.1

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.6 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed high-dpi-aware setting.
  • Updated detection for dropbox client.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.5 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed setting for per monitor dpi aware.
  • Textobject: starting text input by entering numbers using the numblock.
  • Misaligned borders captured on Windows 10.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.4 (Jun 5, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Workaround for broken Facebook upload.
  • Crash drawing miniatures.
  • Recording three or more monitors while primary monitor is not the most left.
  • Crash on saving very tall or wide captures (width or height greater 10000 pixel).
  • Webcam video window intersected with taskbar when recording whole desktop.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.3 (May 12, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Video effect setting is deactivated at start up.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Crash on closing webcam.
  • Crash uploading to Facebook.
  • Various small issues dealing with high DPI settings.
  • Crash in miniature creation.
  • Crash with mousehook.dll.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.2 (May 12, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Recording video on multi-monitor-system may showed vertical line.
  • CloudCopy did not detect OneDrive correctly.
  • Rare crashes using undo command.
  • 4K skin size incorrectly used.

New in Ashampoo Snap 8.0.1 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Edit Mode
  • Copy/Paste between Captures using a right-click menu
  • Copy rendered captures to the clipboard for further use.
  • Paste bitmaps or objects from other captures into the current capture.
  • Insert bitmaps located on disk.
  • Create Collages out of multiple captures
  • Add additional captures with a single click on a miniature at the bottom.
  • A collage will be created automatically and additional captures will be added one by one.
  • Every added capture imports other objects (arrow, text, etc) as well (if any).
  • This way several captures can be combined and shared as a single graphic.
  • New Close All command
  • In case many captures have been opened and edited this command allows the user to close all captures with a single click. If edited captures exist, the user can choose whether to automatically save or to ignore the changes made.
  • Resize on Share:
  • New option enables to automatically resize a capture using a shrink to fit method whenever a send command is used. Send by email, upload to AshWeb and upload to Facebook are supported.
  • Other Improvements:
  • Support for Google WEBP (*.webp) as default output format.
  • Print command supports printing multiple copies at once.
  • Now its possible to scroll the miniatures list by dragging the mouse.
  • Export PSD command can be configured to use a user-defined application to open *.psd files.
  • New floodfill tool supporting transparency and tolerance settings.
  • More accurate objects handling when resizhing the capture.
  • Technical:
  • New Media Foundation used as basic video playback for MP4/WMV files. DirectShow still supported as fall back solution for certain codecs (eg AVI files).
  • Runs on Windows 7 or later, uses modern CPU architecture optimizations.
  • Image Capture:
  • Custom Region
  • New capture method where user is able to specify the full region coordinates manually.
  • Can be used in conjunction with timed capture as well.
  • Useful for capturing a specific region on the desktop as a reaccuring event.
  • Free Rectangle
  • Now its possible to adjust the size and position using the cursor keys.
  • Mouse Cursor
  • Supports capturing different cursors sizes beside the default size.
  • Captures the currently used mouse cursor (as seen on the desktop) when applicable.
  • OCR (Text Capture):
  • All new tool to capture latin characters as editable text.
  • Mark a region on desktop and it will be analysed.
  • If text is recognized, it is inserted as a text object into the capture and at the same time copied to the clipboard, so the text can be pasted into other text processing applications.
  • Currently only English and French characters supported.
  • Video Capture:
  • New GUI Controls
  • Floating Controls Window
  • A new window showing all necessary video controls acting as a start center for video capture.
  • The user can control record, pause and finish of a video capture.
  • Easily enable/disable video and mouse cursor effects.
  • Show/Hide webcam video.
  • While recording is active, it will be paused/resumed automatically, if the user changes effects/cursors.
  • Controls show the amount of time the recording took already and show a timer, of when the recording will stop (in case the user enabled this option).
  • Tray Icon
  • Gives basic control for pausing, stopping and starting a video capture.
  • Webcam Integration
  • Show a Webcam window in a corner of the video.
  • Size and position of the webcam window configurable.
  • Record audio through the webcam microphone.
  • Great for creating tutorials where a user at the same time explains and shows an application.
  • Improvements
  • Support for recording sizes greater Full HD (4K Monitors, Multi-Monitor-Desktops).
  • New option to either record the whole virtual Multi-Monitor-Desktop or only the primary monitor.
  • Shrink/Resize while recording: for example 3000x2000 is recorded, but video is saved as 1920x1080.
  • New hotkey for pausing/resuming video (Alt+P). User can configure hotkey as well!
  • Option to stop recording after a certain amount of time.
  • Fixes to multiple pausing while recording for a longer duration.
  • Changes:
  • Edit Mode: All hotkeys starting with Ctrl changed to start with Alt in order to avoid issues when typing text in edit mode.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.10 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Crash on 256-color desktop.
  • Various technical issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.9 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Improved support capturing videos on old graphics cards.
  • Crash loading WMV videos.
  • Memory optimizations.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.8 (Aug 19, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Crash emailing attachments.
  • Crash loading WMV videos.
  • Crash in scaling certain images.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.7 (Jun 27, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Memory array crash.
  • Corrupted photo if scaled smaller and saved as JPG.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.6 (May 7, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • JPG Metadata crash.
  • Crash on Video Capture with disk cache option enabled.
  • EditMode: Ctrl+C did not save latest changes on disk.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.5 (Apr 4, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • EditMode: Export function remembers file type selection.
  • CloudCopy: Name change Skydrive to OneDrive.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • FreeRect Capture: Not possible to capture if user held left mouse button while capturing with hotkey.
  • CaptureBar: Was possible to open some dialogs multiple times.
  • Adding text object and immediately exporting could result in text loss.
  • Updates to AshInet2 dll.
  • Updates to Facebook Uploader.
  • Hotkey for fixed region capture used wrong modifier key.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.4 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Automatic Crash Reporting
  • In rare case the application may crash the user can send a crash report. The crash report contains system diagnostic data and a screenshot of the application. Furthermore the user can add a personal message describing what the user was doing.
  • Manual Error Report
  • By pressing Ctrl+F1 the user can send an error report at any time. The error report contains system diagnostic data and a screenshot of the application. Furthermore the user can add a personal message describing what the user was doing.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Menu items wrong definitions.
  • Delete File Error using video files on Windows XP.
  • Scrolling Website Capture works with latest Google Chrome Browser (v32+).
  • Mouse Cursor Capture on Windows XP.
  • Wrong Desktop Capture with certain Multi-Monitor-Configurations.
  • Problem with certain effects in effect browser.
  • AshInet Analytics wrong sending.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.3 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Output format selection on XP.
  • Send by email did not work right after screenshot taken with certain email apps.
  • Crash on exiting app and trial period over.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.2 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • User can choose output format again (JXR, JPG, PDF, etc).
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Importing settings from Snap 6.
  • IntroWindows wrong text color.
  • Wrong size for bars at specific monitor resolutions.
  • multishot-mode did not create snapdoc versions.

New in Ashampoo Snap 7.0.1 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • All New Capture-Objects-Method
  • Capture all visible application windows on the Desktop as objects.
  • Capture even small elements like buttons, toolbars, scrollbars.
  • All this is done automatically with a single click on a button!
  • Furthermore 4 different styles are supported (Desktop, Stacked, Side by Side, Side by Side (with Elements)) which is helpful for documentation writers and web designers needs.
  • Later on resize/move captured application windows in edit mode via drag and drop as those are stored in a SNAPDOC format.
  • Or export all objects as bitmap layers to Adobe Photoshop/Save as *.PSD.
  • Simplified Output Format Handling
  • Snap automatically renders a PNG file for distribution and keeps a hidden SNAPDOC file for editing.
  • The user will find a PNG file as final output to be used for sharing, storing and other uses.
  • If a capture is opened in Edit Mode, then Snap will use a hidden copy in SNAPDOC format allowing the user to adjust objects, add/delete drop shadow, time stamp, mouse cursor and other capture data. Even if the capture was taken a year ago!
  • And all of this is done automatically, the user wont see a difference but only recognize the advantages.
  • New Export Command enabling the user to save the capture to other advanced formats (JXR, JPG, PSD including layers, PDF)
  • Cloud & Webmail Integration
  • Cloud-Copy -
  • Snap detects installed DropBox, Google Drive and Microsoft (Sky-)Drive Accounts.
  • Place a copy of a capture with a single click in the chosen cloud service and keep working with Snap while the capture is uploaded to the cloud in the background using its individual upload service.
  • Webmail -
  • Send captures by email just from within you browser. No classic email program is required.
  • Or share/post a capture on a social website.
  • Snap supports these services: Google Mail, Yahoo Mail, Mail.ru, Facebook, Twitter.
  • Ashampoo Upload Service (AshWeb)
  • Now supports uploading video captures/files as well!
  • Most common video formats are supported (WMV, AVI, MP4).
  • Uploaded video playback is supported by all major HTML5 browsers (FireFox, Chrome, IE) on all common platforms (Windows, Android, iOS).
  • Capture
  • Capturing very small rectangular regions is now possible by pressing return.
  • Improved handling of capturing multi-monitor configurations.
  • (Edit-)Objects
  • Vastly improved object handling
  • Finally a single left-click is enough to select and drag an object.
  • And simply click outside the capture in order to deselect any selected object.
  • Right-Click on any object to -
  • Quickly clone an object.
  • See a list of objects to select one.
  • Commands differ between selected object and object below mouse cursor, which is useful in situations with many objects on top of each other.
  • Quick-Access-Button for Styles -
  • All objects (where appropriate) keep a list of common color/style configurations which can easily be switched by the user.
  • The user can see a small window with miniatures showing the available styles and chooses one by clicking on such one.
  • It is possible to add/delete existing styles.
  • Different styles means for example green, dotted, thick line or a yellow text with orange outline effect and bold and italic font attributes.
  • Many new and optimized object tools/types-
  • All objects support new outline line style.
  • Many objects support gradient color fill.
  • Pencil -
  • Several technical improvements to speed up drawing.
  • Bitmap -
  • Filtered blt for 32bit RGBA graphics resulting in higher quality when scaled/rotated.
  • New options to adjust saturation, contrast and brightness.
  • Drawing speed optimization for drop shadow (if enabled).
  • Callout -
  • New default style.
  • More/Updated unique callout graphics to be used as a background.
  • Easier text editing: Just start typing to enter new text. Use a double-click to change existing text.
  • Hint -
  • New default style.
  • Easier text editing: Just start typing to enter new text. Use a double-click to change existing text.
  • Text-
  • Easier text editing: Just start typing to enter new text. Use a double-click to change existing text.
  • Options show preview of available fonts.
  • On creating a new text object it is created with default size and style, no need to "draw" a rectangle anymore.
  • NEW Curved Arrow -
  • All new Arrow tool to draw curved arrows.
  • Supports gradient color fill and outline border effect.
  • Classic straight arrow still available.
  • NEW Curved Line -
  • All new Line tool to draw curved lines.
  • Supports gradient color fill and outline border effect.
  • Classic straight line still available.
  • NEW Point-Line -
  • All new Line tool to draw a continuous line based on several line segments connected by points.
  • Supports gradient color fill and outline border effect.
  • Points are represented by customizable bitmaps.
  • Edit Mode:
  • Improvements
  • On start automatically loads the last capture done.
  • Supports loading many more graphic file formats (50+), including common Digital Camera RAW formats.
  • Easier miniature handling/navigating.
  • Additional "revert to original" command.
  • Escape-Key-Handling
  • On press and the capture was modified, the user has to confirm the deletion of the capture.
  • On press and confirmation box is shown, user can cancel whole action (maybe user hit accidentaly Escape key and does not want to close edit mode).
  • New Effect-Center
  • Easily switch between effects with real time preview.
  • Supports adjusting effect strength where appropriate.
  • More effects (Soft Blend, Motion Blur, Zoom Blur, Noise, Splash, Bulge, Twist, Wave, Glass, Video)
  • Send by E-Mail
  • Improved HTML template for outlook compatible email programs (outlook, outlook express, windows mail, ...).
  • When sending only one screenshot, the screenshot is auto-sized and pasted into the HTML email.
  • If a video file or multiple screenshot shall be sent, then those files are attached the way it used to be before.
  • Video Technology
  • Improved thumbnail generation for different video formats.
  • Better video playback on Windows 7 and higher.
  • Adjusted default settings/presets for video recording.
  • Changes:
  • Snap can collect and send anonymous statistical usage data (which functions/commands to be used), but only if user wants to.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Filename handling in case file already exists.
  • Fixes for having blue border appearing on capture.
  • Edit Mode: Canvas Resize and DropShadow enabled.
  • Edit Mode: Scrolling capture with mouse hover over objects.
  • Edit Mode: Flatten Layers may wrong font size.
  • Windows 8.1 Open/Save Dlg.
  • Rotating objects mouse cursor.
  • Drawing tools/objects at the edges of a capture.
  • TrayMenu disappear before capture desktop.
  • Buttonbar-Alignment on MultiMonitor-Systems.
  • Scaling text on high resolution photos resulted in wrong text size.
  • Fixes to webcam detection (unsupported bitdepths, wrong resolutions).
  • Fixes for rotating desktop while edit mode active.
  • Edit-Text does not show virtual keyboard on tablet devices.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.10 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Edit Mode: Canvas Resize and DropShadow enabled
  • Edit Mode: Scrolling capture with mouse hover over objects
  • Edit Mode: Flatten Layers may wrong font size
  • Windows 8.1 Open/Save Dlg

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.9 (Sep 27, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Rotating objects mouse cursor.
  • Drawing tools/objects at the edges of a capture.
  • TrayMenu disappear before capture desktop.
  • Buttonbar-Alignment on MultiMonitor-Systems.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.8 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Editing text with on-screen keyboard.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.7 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Scaling text on high resolution photos resulted in wrong text size.
  • Fixes to webcam detection (unsupported bitdepths, wrong resolutions).
  • Fixes for rotating desktop while edit mode active.
  • Edit-Text does not show virtual keyboard on tablet devices.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.6 (Jul 10, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Send by email showed security box in MS Outlook.
  • Fixes to webcam detection, if no device available.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.5 (May 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • If snap is started again and one instance is already active, then welcome window is shown.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Wrong time in edit mode added.
  • Rename warning in case file name in use.
  • Settings slider redraw.
  • Tools Rectangle and Ellipse show malformed transparency.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.4 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Recorded video files deleted after saved by user and pressing Esc.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.3 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Buttonbar stayed at 75% size at certain screen resolutions.
  • Several stability updates/speed increases.
  • Recorded video files not removed automatically after user chosed not to keep them.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.2 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • Changes:
  • Multi-Shot: If active, Edit-Mode is not required anymore, screenshots are saved into the output folder as finals.
  • If Multi-Shot is not active, then Edit-Mode behaves as before.
  • Eraser: New default behaviour is as in Snap 5, additional option to have eraser work on alpha channel only.
  • Option to show ZoomWindow in the lower right corner.
  • Transparency: Minimal value allowed is 10 in order to avoid invisible objects.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Timestamp incorrect.
  • Print output black border.
  • Certain 32bit images showed malformed transparency.
  • Resize image with drop shadow resulted in wrong size.
  • Hint-Tool display issue.
  • Fixes several stability issues/random crashes.

New in Ashampoo Snap 6.0.0 Beta (Oct 16, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Hassle-free Upload to Ashampoo Snap Webspace:
  • Share screenshots with a single click - it can't be easier!
  • No LogIn or cumbersome account creation required.
  • Once uploaded, share the link to your screenshot via instant messaging or by email, post it at social network sites or use them at some website as a reference.
  • Image Capture Technology:
  • All new support for full 32bit transparency (RGBA). The whole capture and edit mode process and viewing backend has been updated to work with translucent areas and shapes.
  • All existing tools (eg erasor, blur pen) have been updated to proper work with transparency. For example, the erasor tool erases parts of the alpha channel instead of drawing into the capture itsself.
  • Edit Mode / Dynamic Capture Objects:
  • All new support for dynamic objects added to the screenshot itsself. Any effect like DropShadow, MouseCursor, Watermark, Timestamp, Shape or Border can be modified even AFTER the capture was taken.
  • The user can change effects like DropShadow in real-time with a live preview. Completely new GUI elements ease the use of those new possibilities, and offering a new workflow without classic OK/Cancel-boxes. When using Ashampoo Photo Commander Document v2 (APCDOC2) format as output format, those effects can even be changed when the file was saved and loaded the next day! It never has been easier to change the shape of a screenshot, to add a fancy border effect or to show the name of the window captured as a watermark on top of the image!
  • New effect browser showing live previews of 15 available effects useful for screenshots.
  • New commands "flatten layers" and "convert to 24bit" for advanced users.
  • Choose Color Window integrates an additional color picker enabling the user to choose any color available on the desktop without switching outside the application.
  • Video Capture:
  • Redesigned video recording options for ease of use.
  • New video capture mode "time lapse" offers creating an accelerated view of motion, which is useful for creating tutorials.
  • Webcam Capture supports capturing still snapshots as well.
  • Windows 8 Support:
  • Capture new Windows 8 Style Apps, Windows 8 Store, etc.
  • Improved support for capturing classic desktop windows applications.
  • Workflow Improvements - CaptureBar:
  • New default position at the top-right screen edge and size in order to not interrupt the users desktop workflow.
  • Easily switch between single- and multi-shot mode by switching a button on or off.
  • Improved Output Format Support:
  • Load and Save in PDF Format with a new Encoder/Decoder, working on Windows Server Systems as well.
  • Full support for APCDOC Format v2.0. When using this format, all important layers like DropShadow, MouseCursor, Watermark etc are saved into the file and can be edited afterwards in EditMode!
  • Color Picker:
  • New Capture Mode specifically designed for capturing colors from within the desktop.
  • Collect multiple colors in a batch, useful for web designers.
  • Export those color collections to files in several formats. For example in Adobe Color Swatch Format, which can be imported in Adobe Photoshop.
  • Other Improvements:
  • Multi-Core:
  • Full support for dual-core, quad-core cpus resulting in great speed increase, especially for cpu-intense calculations. Multiple cores are detected automatically and used whenever useful, for example when applying an effect.
  • Timed Capture:
  • Timed Capture supports additional time intervals.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fail-safe solution in case output folder for screenshots does not exist.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.1.5 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • EditMode: CopyToClipboard/E-Mail may deleted apcdoc snap.
  • EditMode: Arrows not selectable.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.1.4 (Jul 18, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Additional small numbered button graphics.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • EditMode: Drawing small shaps on small captures crashed.
  • WebCam capture GUI.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.1.3 (Jul 18, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Updated predefined resolutions for capture.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Several stability issues.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.1.0 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • New Color Skin.
  • Office 2010 Menu Capture.
  • Changes:
  • Default name pattern ashampoo_snap.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Rename capture may crashed.
  • Traymenu not disappear if outside click.
  • Crash with filenames without extension.
  • Capture-Border alignment on special Multi-Monitor configurations.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.0.2 (Oct 18, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • More languages.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixes to ButtonBar not disappearing.
  • OptionsDlgs scaled incorrectly on high DPI systems.
  • Menu Detection for Chrome Browser.
  • PrintDlg extended printer settings not usable.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.0.1 (Oct 6, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • More languages.
  • Additional button graphics.
  • Performance increase in edit mode.

New in Ashampoo Snap 5.0 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Edit Mode / Image Editing
  • Restructured ButtonsBars to ease usage and improve work flow.
  • General overhaul for most tools, including easier accessible configuration options for all tools at the bottom of the screen.
  • Improved objects/tools supporting rotation and transparency and optimized display.
  • New Tools
  • Floodfill: Supports gradient fill and different fill styles.
  • Note: Easily add notes with a single click in order to describe captures.
  • Text: Supports gradients, outlines, mirror effects to give the user options for more complex text objects.
  • Number: Automatically numbers portions of the capture with a single mouse click by creating small numbered bullets.
  • BlurPen: Used like a normal pen, it can be used to easily blur or pixelate portions of the capture. For example, it can be used to make text like names or URLs unreadable.
  • Improved handling of multiple captures by displaying miniatures for easy access.
  • New option to stay at the current tool, for example to add arrows in a batch.
  • Image Capture
  • Watermarking: Automatically watermark with user defined text or by applying an image from disk.
  • Textual watermarking supports different placeholders like date, time and so forth.
  • Menus: A new mode detects menus and can be used to capture whole menu trees.
  • Timer: Both delayed and timed captures are supported, whereas the user can either specify a delay for a capture to take place or a delay to repeatedly capture the screen until the user stops.
  • Fixed Size Capture has been improved by offering different pre-defined screen sizes the user can easily choose from.
  • Video Capture
  • Easily capture webcam and microphone into a video file. For example, this can be used to send holiday greetings by video.
  • Additional support to resize the captured video in real-time. For example, while capturing the whole desktop, the captured video resolution can be shrinked to 75% of its original size.
  • Watermarking: Automatically watermark with user defined text or by applying an image from disk.
  • Textual watermarking supports different placeholders like date, time and so forth.
  • Common Stuff
  • File Name Generation: New option %n automatically adds the title of the captured window/website to the file name.
  • Redesigned/Restructured Configuration Dialogs.
  • Improved touch screen support on Windows 7.
  • Changes:
  • Changed internal usage of transparency color RGB(255,0,255) to RGB(254,0,255) for capture.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixes website capture for FireFox 4 and later.
  • Settings: Changing language may crashed app.

New in Ashampoo Snap 4.3 (Apr 1, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • New translations.
  • Changes:
  • EditMode: Save As preselects configured output file format.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Capture works on high DPI systems (eg: Win7 with 150% DPI).

New in Ashampoo Snap 4.2 (Dec 14, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Option to show/hide touch-screen-gripper in CaptureBar.
  • Changes:
  • Changes to transparency style in ellipse tool.
  • Updates to SelectTool text/icon.
  • Supports APC9 apcdoc format.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Video: On XP mouse cursor was not positioned correctly.
  • MultiMonitor: In certain configurations CaptureBar was not visible if configured to be displayed to the right/left side of the screen.
  • EditMode: Was not able to place object in the top-left corner of an image.

New in Ashampoo Snap 4.1 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • Changes:
  • RoundRect ShapeEffect: Smaller default corner and editable in registry.
  • CaptureBar: On MultiMonitor-Systems uses the left/right border of the whole virtual desktop instead of using the borders of the primary monitor for positioning (if user choses to display the bar at the left/right screen border).
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • BrowseForObjects-Window was hidden if EditMode-Option "always on top" activated.
  • Save As: Appends correct extension if none entered.
  • MultiMonitor: Could capture wrong parts of a window in certain circumstances.
  • Memleak with certain apcdoc.
  • Audio/Microphone: Fall back to default record format if chosen record format not possible instead of showing error message.
  • Website Capture: Did not work with certain websites.
  • Updates to AVI codec list to not show incompatible ones.
  • Undo/Redo did not work correctly in certain circumstances.

New in Ashampoo Snap 4.0 (Jun 30, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • New Screen Capture Method:
  • Free Style Auto-Scrolling Capture to capture virtually any scrollable area:
  • Captures parts of a website (good for websites that show a border at the bottom of the browser window even though the website is scrolled down).
  • Content of (most) JAVA applications.
  • New command to easily capture the whole Windows Desktop.
  • All New Video Capture Technique:
  • Supports different Codecs/Containers for on-the-fly encoding:
  • WMV: Windows Media Video 7, 8, 9, Screen and Advanced (VC1).
  • AVI: Supports any on the system installed codec (eg XviD, DivX, etc).
  • Offers predefined profiles for capturing:
  • One profile for common desktop applications with low FPS and small file size.
  • One profile for recording typical video content with high FPS and better quality.
  • Also supports custom configuration so the user can choose the codec, FPS and the bitrate.
  • Supports Multi-Monitor Systems:
  • Capturing can be done on any monitor (not limited to the primary anymore).
  • Also capturing areas that share parts of two monitors is supported.
  • Video Capture Effects/Options:
  • Show/Hide the cursor.
  • Choose among predefined highlight effects for the cursor. For example, the mouse cursor can be sourrounded by a yellow, translucent circle.
  • Add eye-catching cursor effects on every left/right-click (red circles growing and fading away).
  • Zoom into Area: By using a predefind global hotkey, the user can record a zoomed area while recording the video. While zooming is active, the zoomed area will be centered around the mouse cursor, showing this part at 200%. If the user stops zooming, the recorded part will fade back to the original size and zoom ratio of 100% again.
  • Hotkey to pause/resume capture in progress.
  • Apply different image effects during video capture (sepia, grayscale).
  • Greatly Improved Editing Tools:
  • Editable Objects:
  • Now all objects like text, rectangles, arrows, hints, bitmaps and so on can be moved, sized, copied, rotated and more as long as the user wants to.
  • Every object displays its own options at the bottom of the screen enabling the user to easily change color, size, style, and so forth in real time.
  • Objects can be copied/pasted/deleted, by right-clicking and choosing the command.
  • Even unlimited undo/redo is possible for every single change.
  • By supporting the common Photo Commander Document Format (*.apcdoc) the user can save those objects in a file to be able to edit those later on, or to exchange those with Ashampoo Photo Commander.
  • High Quality:
  • Now all tools support anti-aliasing, transparency and high quality shadow effect.(for example line, rectange, pencil, etc...)
  • Improved Tools:
  • The highlight tool is not limited anymore to a single area. The user can add multiple areas at the same layer stage.
  • Improved handling of the eraser.
  • Selection tool supports different aspect ratios and adds additional drop-down menu commands.
  • The arrow tool supports additional arrow head style "modern".
  • Shape tool (line, rectangle, ellipse) uses new default styles.
  • New Tools:
  • Zoomed Button: Automatically zooms a marked area and adds an eye catching drop-shadow-border-effect around it in order to visually highlight it.
  • Stamps/Graphics: Easily insert different stamps of all manners that ship with Snap and have been chosen by the designers of ashampoo. Supports all different kinds of symbols suitable for screen captures. Of course those stamps can be used like any other object, once added.
  • Options/Configuration:
  • Many existing options have been reworked/restructured to ease usability.
  • General Edit Mode Improvements:
  • Load/Save in Ashampoo Photo Commander Document (*.apcdoc). Useful for importing or exporting objects.
  • Smoother zoom steps for big screen captures.
  • Resize image command supports high-quality Lanczos3 and BSpline resize filters.
  • Better Filename Configuration:
  • Supports more date formats (long date, short date).
  • Supports a global capture counter as well as a local counter.
  • New Send By Email Option:
  • Send all screen captures in a single PDF file.
  • New Import/Export Configuration:
  • Easily import or export the whole application configuration from/into a single *.ini file.
  • Supports configuring additional hotkeys for Video-Capture (in case the Pause-Key is not available).
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Starting Zune App starts single window capture.
  • Pressing "special keys" on a keyboard may start a capture.
  • Video Capture: Double-clicking works while recording.

New in Ashampoo Snap 3.40 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • NEW: Supports Google Chrome
  • Improved support for Firefox 3.6
  • Fixes potential problem with the reception of text documents.

New in Ashampoo Snap 3.30 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Video capture with high quality codecs
  • Two video modes for movies and program demos
  • On-the-fly video encoding - no waiting
  • Cool new interface, even easier to use
  • Accurate multi-page printing for scrolling captures
  • New automated file name functions for captures
  • Flood fill editing tool for filling areas with color
  • Editor function, now opens and edits other files
  • Changes:
  • Now with full Microsoft Windows® 7 compatibility
  • Improved Performance

New in Ashampoo Snap 3.10 (Aug 12, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Website-Capture: Support for FireFox 3.5.
  • Video-Capture: Advanced Codec Configuration for both Audio and Video.
  • Changes:
  • None.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixes to Configuration Dialog when changing language.
  • Select Tool: First Copy, then re-select, then Paste failed.

New in Ashampoo Snap 3.02 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Video capture with high quality codecs
  • Two video modes for movies and program demos
  • On-the-fly video encoding - no waiting
  • Cool new interface, even easier to use
  • Accurate multi-page printing for scrolling captures
  • New automated file name functions for captures
  • Flood fill editing tool for filling areas with color
  • Editor function, now opens and edits other files
  • Changes:
  • new languages

New in Ashampoo Snap 2.30 (Oct 5, 2007)

  • New language

New in Ashampoo Snap 2.10 (May 31, 2007)

  • Support for PDF file export
  • New free style capture method