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Screenshot Captor Changelog

What's new in Screenshot Captor 4.42.0 Beta

Jul 21, 2022
  • [BugFix] Printing to some printers could result in printer throwing windows error failing to print; due to no title for print job set
  • [BugFix] Installer was failing to automatically close a running copy of the program when installing an update or uninstalling.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.38.0 Beta (Mar 24, 2020)

  • [Improvement] Copying bitmap of screenshot to clipboard does not put unnecessary data on clipboard.
  • [Improvement] New option to disable color-change of tray icon during captures.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.36.1 (Jan 23, 2020)

  • Improvement:
  • You can now set custom toolbar icon size (More Interface Options tab).
  • Feature:
  • New menu function, SpecialFx -> Delete selection (make transparent)

New in Screenshot Captor 4.36.1 Beta (Jan 2, 2020)

  • [Improvement] You can now set custom toolbar icon size (More Interface Options tab).
  • [Feature] New menu function, SpecialFx -> Delete selection (make transparent)

New in Screenshot Captor 4.35.1 Beta (Dec 31, 2019)

  • [BugFix] Mobile phone or other photos with rotation information are now auto-rotated to correct orientation.
  • [Improvement] Updated compatible version of Mouser's Media Browser for image file management/browsing.
  • [MinorImprovement] Create new folder here function will now ensure the new folder is uniquely named.
  • [MinorImprovement] Minor tweaks to option descriptions.
  • [Improvement] Added preconfigured tools for The Gimp, and Corel Paint Shop Pro (will be auto populated in Tool menu if found installed)
  • [BugFix] The tool system (sctool) configuration files were not finding programs in the x64 C:Program Files directory if the tool was configured as in %ProgramFiles%
  • [BugFix] Red box object capture could capture a larger area of the screen when capturing whole windows on Windows 10.
  • [BugFix] Code to fetch printer name could throw exception

New in Screenshot Captor 4.29.0 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • [Improvement] Region select mode is now much more responsive.
  • [Improvement] Region select mode now shows region size hint much more clearly
  • [Improvement] Region select mode crosshairs are now easier to see on a variety of backgrounds.
  • [Improvement] When copying image (or region) to clipboard that has alpha transparency, the alpha transparency is preserved.
  • [New Feature] New menu item in Objects menu to save current image or region into the MyClipart folder for reuse as a clipart object.
  • [New Feature] New right-click context menu in clipart panel to browse current clipart directory with file explorer (useful for managing/renaming MyClipart files).
  • [Improvement] Fixed-size region captures now use same capture mode as region-select mode, just starting out in selection-move mode; so now all of the region select mode features and hotkeys are available (use '1'-'9' to choose from preset sizes, use 'r' key to toggle region mode, etc.)
  • [New Feature] Hold alt key while dragging second corner of region in region capture mode to preserve aspect ratio.
  • [BugFix] It's possible that jpg "Date Created", normally left blank by SC, could be set to values photo loaded by SC.
  • [Improvement] The common default screenshot directory folder is now added near top of GoTo/MoveTo directory lists at startup.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.28.2 Beta (Mar 11, 2018)

  • [Improvement] Region select mode is now much more responsive
  • [Improvement] Region select mode now shows region size much more clearly
  • [Improvement] Region select mode crosshairs are now easier to see on a variety of backgrounds.
  • [Improvement] When copying image (or region) to clipboard that has alpha transparency, the alpha transparency is preserved.
  • [New Feature] New menu item in Objects menu to save current image or region into the MyClipart folder for reuse as a clipart object.
  • [New Feature] New right-click context menu in clipart panel to browse current clipart directory with file explorer (useful for managing/renaming MyClipart files).
  • [Improvement] Fixed-size region captures now use same capture mode as region-select mode, just starting out in selection-move mode; so now all of the region select mode features and hotkeys are available (use '1'-'9' to choose from preset sizes, use 'r' key to toggle region mode, etc.)
  • [New Feature] Hold alt key while dragging second corner of region in region capture mode to preserve aspect ratio.
  • [BugFix] It's possible that jpg "Date Created", normally left blank by SC, could be set to values photo loaded by SC.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.28.0 Beta (Mar 1, 2018)

  • [Improvement] Region select mode is now much more responsive
  • [Improvement] Region select mode now shows region size much more clearly

New in Screenshot Captor 4.27.3 (Feb 25, 2018)

  • [Help] Added new help topic on region select mode.
  • [Improvement] Much faster and smoother region capture mode keyboard nudge operation.
  • [Improvement] Added 'T' shortcut in region capture mode to toggle controlling corner (useful for nudging and adjusting region).
  • [Improvement] Tweaked the detection of a simple left-click in region capture mode to avoid spurious case where a single click was interpreted as a drag and release capture in region capture mode.
  • [Improvement] Added 'R' shortcut in region capture mode to switch to fixed sized region move mode.
  • [Improvement] Added ability to quickly select preset region sizes in region capture mode using your favorite and last sizes, using keys 0-9.
  • [New Feature] Auto selection adjustment (under Edit Menu) -- will resize (both and expand and shrink) the current selection region to tightly fit the foreground contents on a solid background. Great for isolating GUI controls, windows, etc.; New toolbar menu item for this command, and shortcut key 'a' in editor.
  • [New Feature] In main editor, use keys 0-9 to select from MyFavorite region sizes (0 to unselect).
  • [BugFix] Pixelation effects grid borders were sometimes off by one pixel.
  • [BugFix] Sorting by name in thumbnail panel was not working.
  • [Improvement] Speed of sorting thumbnail panel has been improved.
  • [BugFix] Eliminated unnecessary long delay after closing options panel and performing other operations that effected the thumbnail panel (sorting, etc.).
  • [BugFix] Active screenshot (position) in screenshot thumbnail panel was being lost after closing options or performing some other menu operations.
  • [BugFix] Ragged/splice effects dialog was not remembering choice of affected edges.
  • [Improvement] New option for post-capture pop-up dialog, you can choose whether the main app should stay minimized when you hit enter from the post-capture pop-up dialog if it was already minimized when you triggered the capture, or should always show the main window afterwards (previously the default).
  • [Improvement] When copying a selected region to clipboard or saving a selected region as a separate file (see toolbar button and save menu for this handy operation), it will now properly save alpha transparency if the selection is non rectangular (for example made using lasso selection or auto adjust region action). This can be useful for selecting a gui element on screen and pasting it back as an object that can be moved and manipulated.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.27.1 Beta (Feb 22, 2018)

  • [Help] Added new help topic on region select mode.
  • [Improvement] Much faster and smoother region capture mode keyboard nudge operation.
  • [Improvement] Added 'T' shortcut in region capture mode to toggle controlling corner (useful for nudging and adjusting region).
  • [Improvement] Tweaked the detection of a simple left-click in region capture mode to avoid spurious case where a single click was interpreted as a drag and release capture in region capture mode.
  • [Improvement] Added 'R' shortcut in region capture mode to switch to fixed sized region move mode.
  • [Improvement] Added ability to quickly select preset region sizes in region capture mode using your favorite and last sizes, using keys 0-9.
  • [New Feature] Auto selection adjustment (under Edit Menu) -- will resize (both and expand and shrink) the current selection region to tightly fit the foreground contents on a solid background. Great for isolating GUI controls, windows, etc.; New toolbar menu item for this command, and shortcut key 'a' in editor.
  • [New Feature] In main editor, use keys 0-9 to select from MyFavorite region sizes (0 to unselect).
  • [BugFix] Pixelation effects grid borders were sometimes off by one pixel.
  • [BugFix] Sorting by name in thumbnail panel was not working.
  • [Improvement] Speed of sorting thumbnail panel has been improved.
  • [BugFix] Eliminated unnecessary long delay after closing options panel and performing other operations that effected the thumbnail panel (sorting, etc.).
  • [BugFix] Active screenshot (position) in screenshot thumbnail panel was being lost after closing options or performing some other menu operations.
  • [BugFix] Ragged/splice effects dialog was not remembering choice of affected edges.
  • [Improvement] New option for post-capture pop-up dialog, you can choose whether the main app should stay minimized when you hit enter from the post-capture pop-up dialog if it was already minimized when you triggered the capture, or should always show the main window afterwards (previously the default).
  • [Improvement] When copying a selected region to clipboard or saving a selected region as a separate file (see toolbar button and save menu for this handy operation), it will now properly save alpha transparency if the selection is non rectangular (for example made using lasso selection or auto adjust region action).

New in Screenshot Captor 4.21.1 (May 8, 2017)

  • [BugFix] Fixed GDI leak that could cause SC to hang after thousands of captures.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.20.1 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • [MajorFeature] First High-dpi compatible version beta.
  • [Feature] Added option to control whether an override filename specified in the post-capture pop-up dialog will always be used as the full filename (new default; see post-cap options tab) or whether it will be used as the %quickfield% field if present in the filename template (old behavior).
  • [BugFix] Custom filename and comment is no longer cleared after each action on the post-capture pop-up dialog.
  • [Feature] You can now use %APPDRIVE% and other replacement fields when specifying screenshot folder in options.
  • [Feature] Workaround for trying to UNDO when using arrow tool.
  • [Feature] Added option in uploader to preserve log across runs, and to copy log to clipboard.
  • [BugFix] Right-click to pan/drag was not working right in object mode.
  • [BugFix] Zoom level label was sometimes not updating if no images were found at startup.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.16.1 (Feb 1, 2017)

  • great multimon support

New in Screenshot Captor 4.15.0 (Nov 7, 2015)

  • [BugFix] The repeat region capture was not capturing the proper location for some multimonitor cases.
  • [BugFix] The zoom panel in selected-region captures was sometimes failing to respond to cursor movements and could flicker.
  • [BugFix] Removed duplicate Ctrl+T shortcut in view menu.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.15.0 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • [BugFix] The repeat region capture was not capturing the proper location for some multimonitor cases.
  • [BugFix] The zoom panel in selected-region captures was sometimes failing to respond to cursor movements and could flicker.
  • [BugFix] The Resize and Fine Rotate dialogs were not properly showing previews of image.
  • [Feature] Fit Width and Fit Height actions added to View menu.
  • [Feature] If the current screenshot is renamed outside of SC, SC will try to switch to the renamed file.
  • [Improvement] When pixelating, any partial transparency is removed in order to reduce the risk of the original pixels being recovered.
  • [Improvement] JPG quality/compression setting is now of a finer scale and scaled up to a more reasonable (higher quality) range.
  • [Change] Using SaveAs will now use same quality/compression settings as default.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.13.0 Beta (Sep 14, 2015)

  • [BugFix] On Windows 10 (and 8?), active window captures were taking too long and could be blank if Aero capture options were disabled.
  • [BugFix] On Windows 10 (and 8?), active window captures sometimes looked as if they had an Aero theme added to them.
  • [BugFix] Program settings were sometimes not being saved when computer rebooted/shutdown.
  • [BugFix] Zip files were being shown in thumbnail panel.
  • [BugFix] Fixed error in sample commandline for custom emailer tool.
  • [BugFIx] Corrected link to ShareX website and improved instruction text for custom uploader configuration,
  • [BugFix] Corrected a few miscellaneous typos.
  • [Improvement] On Windows8/10, Aero capture mode was enabled by default, needlessly delaying active window captures; Aero options are now disabled by default for Windows 8/10.
  • [Improvement] When changing screenshot directories, the program no longer creates a temporary file to test for directory writeability.
  • [Improvement] Miscellaneous thumbnail panel improvements for compatibility with operating system.
  • [Improvement] Error message when selecting a PDF file in thumbnail list was not accurate.
  • [Improvement] Use of the -show commandline option was not bringing program to front if it was already visible.
  • [Improvement] New "Open Image" item on main file menu.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.12.0 (May 29, 2015)

  • [BugFix] Ctrl+C to copy selected region to clipboard (especially with Ctrl+A) was not copying the last row and column.
  • [Improvement] New option to not display PDF files in thumbnail panel.
  • [Improvement] Clicking on a PDF file will now show message about double-clicking on thumbnail to open in default external viewer.
  • [Improvement] Last captured region is now preserved across runs.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.11.0 Beta (May 5, 2015)

  • [Improvement] New option to not display PDF files in thumbnail panel.
  • [Improvement] Clicking on a PDF file will now show message about double-clicking on thumbnail to open in default external viewer.
  • [Improvement] Last captured region is now preserved across runs.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.10.0 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • [Improvement] Selecting multiple files with Ctrl+Click from thumbnail panel and dropping on current image now works better because it will ignore the case where the current image is selected.
  • [Improvement] Selecting multiple images with Ctrl or Shift no longer triggers loading of selected images.
  • [BugFix] No longer will query pale moon browser for current url even if option enabled in capture tab, since the browser does not respond with info.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.6 (Apr 22, 2015)

  • [Improvement] Renaming files in thumbnail panel now preserves file extension.
  • [Feature Preview] Standalone screenshot window mode (see View menu), allows full screen editing, full-window file browser, and/or small floating preview window.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.5 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • Includes the changes found in the previous Beta versions

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.5 Beta (Mar 14, 2015)

  • [Change/BugFix] Bitmap objects are no longer anti-aliased/blurred.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.4 Beta (Mar 12, 2015)

  • [Feature] New option to quickly disable automatic adding of comment/note to captures.
  • [Feature] Renaming file with .pdf extension in quick filename field will now save a pdf file.
  • [Feature] Trying to view a PDF file now shows a more informative message in statusbar and opens pdf file with external application.
  • [Change] Changed default option so that changing file extension in quick filename field will not remove original file but create a new one.
  • [Change] Saving Line/Arrow tool presets now saves arrow start and end shapes (be careful when applying in bulk to existing lines that it doesn't change their orientations).
  • [Change] When capturing an active window, SC no longer steals focus afterwards.
  • [Feature] During region capture, the cursor key behavior largely matches that of SC selection process (plain cursor keys MOVE selection rectangle; shift to move bottom right, alt to move top left).
  • [BugFix] Message about capturing all black/white image could sometimes show behind main window.
  • [BugFix] When a blank comment field was set in options, it could cause spurious prompts about saving a non-dirty file on new captures.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.3 (Jan 3, 2015)

  • Includes the changes found in the previous Beta version

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.3 Beta (Dec 17, 2014)

  • [Feature] New print option (default) to match automatically page orientation to screenshot aspect ratio.
  • [MinorFeature] Added keyboard accelerator for Edit -> Select -> Remember item.
  • [BugFix] Uploader dialog was opening on wrong initial tab.
  • [BugFix] Patch region special effect was missing last row+column.
  • [Change] If you try to minimize SC and have unsaved changes, choosing cancel/dontsave will now still minimize the program.
  • [Feature] When you have multiple arrows selected and change arrow properties, all properties are updated except text labels.
  • [Feature] You can now save and load object preset files (saves and loads all properties of objects like arrows, text memos, etc); you can select some objects and apply an object preset file to change the properties of the selected objects. It will save the settings of the current tool, or all tools if not in a specific object mode. See Objects menu. To show the Saved presets on the main toolbar (instead of as a submenu of Objects menu) see the "More Interface Options" tab.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.1 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • [Feature] You can now control what happens when you hit Ctrl+C (see More Interface Options tab); previously it always did a context-sensitive copy-to-clipboard, copying currently selected region or object if there was one; you can now configure this to always copy whole image to clipboard.
  • [Feature] Copy-to-clipboard menus now show a more informative context-sensitive caption and include an additional item for copying whole image, in addition to copying selected region or object.
  • [BugFix] Selected region copy was causing some issues for some users, a Range Check Error.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.9.0 (Oct 8, 2014)

  • [Feature] Select-region capture can now be performed in additional ways; you can use enter key or spacebar to start and end capture regions (escape cancels; cursor keys nudge; C toggles cursor; Z toggles zoom); quick single mouse click can also now mark start and end positions instead of holding and dragging.
  • [Feature] By default SC now checks if a capture is all white or all black, and reports the probable cause (interference from a Security App); see Tweaks option tab to turn this off.
  • [MinorFeature] Changed upload menu icon.
  • [MinorFeature] 'C' key in region-select mode can now be used to toggle off the display/capture of cursor.
  • [BugFix] Nudging selection with arrow keys in region-select mode had an annoying delay/stutter.
  • [Change] The MyJunk folder is no longer created automatically.
  • Also features all the changes from the previous Beta version

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.6 (Oct 8, 2014)

  • [MinorChange] The shortcut for deleting the current screenshot has been changed from Ctrl+Q to Ctrl+Delete.
  • [BugFix] SaveAs was saving .object files even when this option was disabled in options.
  • [MinorFeature] When loading settings, if a corrupt settings file is discovered, a timestamped copy of the last good backup is made so that it will not be overwritten.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.8 Beta (Sep 30, 2014)

  • [MajorFeature] New action available when dropping an image file onto the current image: Combine images. Let's you easily line up images side by side with automatic scaling.
  • [Feature] Made it easier to abort scrolling and other capture operations (tray menu changes to display a cancel operation item).
  • [Feature] Added commandline option to change save file format.
  • [Feature] Added tools menu to SC system tray menu.
  • [Feature] When SC encounters an image file of a different format than the extension indicates, it is still loaded but a warning is shown.
  • [Feature] When SC encounters an error loading an image file, it reports the error and clears the current image selection.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now set a Screenshot directory that SC will always start with even if you changed directories on last run.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now use cursor (arrow) keys to adjust cursor location during shift+PrtScr selected region capture.
  • [MinorFeature] Added Up/Down keys to scrolling capture methods.
  • [MinorFeature] Better instructions for manual scrolling captures.
  • [MinorFeature] Better handling of canceled dropped file.
  • [MinorFeature] The warning about resizing images with objects can now be disabled.
  • [BugFix] DPI was sometimes not set properly if SC was set to not save image automatically.
  • [BugFix] It was possible to restore main SC window and then minimize it during scrolling capture, rendering all SC windows invisible.
  • [BugFix] Red box was flickering in object selection mode.
  • [BugFix] If using post-capture dialog after captures, and "stay hidden" option is chosen, main window was sometimes restoring if it was showing before capture was initiated.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.5 (May 14, 2014)

  • [MajorImprovement] Completely revamped the "manual" method of performing a scrolling capture, to make it easier to do your own scrolling on stubborn windows.
  • [MinorImprovement] Added some commandline options for use with an already running copy of Screenshot Captor.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now toggle the object-capture behavior to not present the "What Now?" dialog where you can choose scrolling capture, etc., and instead do an immediate object/region capture.
  • [Improvement] Minor improvements to Scrolling Capture workflow/instructions/warnings.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.4 Beta (Apr 24, 2014)

  • [MinorFeature] You can now toggle the object-capture behavior to not present the "What Now?" dialog where you can choose scrolling capture, etc., and instead do an immediate object/region capture.
  • [Improvement] Minor improvements to Scrolling Capture workflow/instructions/warnings.
  • [MajorImprovement] Revamped the "manual" method of performing a scrolling capture, to make it easier to do your own scrolling on stubborn windows.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.2 Beta (Apr 13, 2014)

  • [MinorChange] Removed the discontinued imm.io image hosting service from uploader services; defaulted to imageshack (supporting both anonymous and non-anonymous accounts).
  • [MinorChange] Clarified warning about image files being visible to public if uploaded to anonymous hosting account.
  • [MinorChange] If a second instance is launched, SC no longer displays a warning message, it simply un-minimizes the first instance.
  • [BugFix] Pixelating a tiny region with large grid size could result in floating point error.
  • [BugFix] Red box capture mode was capturing regions that were missing 1 pixel width around each edge.
  • [BugFix] Resizing image from resize form could shrink the close-up zoom panel.
  • [BugFix] Trying to undo from resizing image would not undo object size changes (hit undo twice to do this now).
  • [BugFix] Automoving old screenshots at startup had not been working in recent versions.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to start the auto-capture timer at startup.
  • [MinorFeature] New option to immediately jump cursor to arrow text edit box when selecting/adding line arrows for quick labeling and label changes (see drawing object options tab).
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to disable docking behavior of Quick Capture Bar.
  • [MinorFeature] Added detailed warning and confirmation dialog with tips before attempting to resize an image containing objects.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.8.0 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • [MinorFeature] New option (save/load tab) to not show movie files in thumbnail panel.
  • Also includes the changes from the previous Beta version

New in Screenshot Captor 4.7.5 Beta (Nov 30, 2013)

  • [MinorFeature] Including .sctool file for XnView screenshot folder thumbnail browsing; will show up in your Tools menu if XnView is found installed.
  • [MinorFeature] Including .sctool file for IrfanView screenshot folder thumbnail browsing; will show up in your Tools menu if XnView is found installed.
  • [Improvement] Drag and drop of file into the SC window is now smart enough to realize when the file is from the current Screenshot directory and present more appropriate options in this case.
  • [MinorFeature] New tray item to print last screenshot.
  • [BugFix] Somehow the 'z' character could not be used in the post-capture dialog for caption or filename.
  • [MinorFeature] New Redbox capture object mode now will grab cursor if options say to do so (but not when scrolling).

New in Screenshot Captor 4.7.0 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • [BugFix] Fixed an error that could occur when using network paths for home / screenshot / config directories.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.6.2 Beta (Sep 8, 2013)

  • [Feature] Added new shape option for arrows (circle endpoints).
  • [Feature] New quick-search-bar for easy filtering of screenshots listed in thumbnail panel (see view menu).
  • [Feature] Added File menu item to close current file and have nothing loaded.
  • [Feature] You can now sort standard thumbnail sidebar with newest at top if you like.
  • [Feature] New option (enabled by default) to auto-select next file after deletions.
  • [Feature] New option (Print tab) to invert colors of printouts (maybe useful if printing mostly black images on laser printer).
  • [Feature] New help panel when in object editing mode (you can disable this new behavior from the Object Drawing options tab).
  • [Improvement] If user accidentally loads a second instance, the error message and behavior is clearer.
  • [Improvement] SC now remembers sorting column+direction in list/detail thumbnail sidebar modes.
  • [Improvement] Improved sizing of columns in different detail view modes; new simple left hand list mode.
  • [Improvement] When set to stay minimized after capture, if SC was onscreen when capture initiated, it would jump to front and not always relinquish foreground window after completion. Note that the SC window does return to the screen and not minimize if it was on screen when capture initiated.
  • [Improvement] Better support for dragging and dropping images from other programs (especially web browser) onto main window.
  • [Improvement] Starting your word in the new screenshot filter edit box with ~ will show files that do NOT match what it typed next.
  • [Change] Iff multiple images are selected, the toolbar delete button will now delete all instead of just the current image.
  • [Change/Bugfix] Line/Arrow labels with "no-border" mode set could sometimes show a border; now the no-border option shows no border and draws label text directly over existing background.
  • [BugFix] Print preview settings (margins, orientation, etc.) triggered from post-capture dialog were not being synchronized with main print preview settings.
  • [BugFix] If you brought up Print setup dialog, and from their print properties dialog, it could be hidden behind main window.
  • [BugFix] Fixed case where the last file might not be loaded (or scrolled down to) at start of program.
  • [BugFix] The fix to keep printer setup dialog on top was messing with other forms appearing behind main window.
  • [BugFix] When SC was on screen at time of initiating capture, sometimes the current foreground window was not preserved as focused window (and did not show up in capture as an active window).
  • [BugFix] If a modal message was showing, it was possible to toggle main form visible or initiate a capture, hiding the modal message.
  • [BugFix] Redbox (scrolling and object capture modes) were not obeying the stay-minimized-after-capture options.
  • [BugFix] Choosing an object (like arrow) to draw, and changing properties BEFORE drawing, was not obeying new settings.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.6.0 Beta (Aug 27, 2013)

  • [Improvement] Added new shape option for arrows (circle endpoints).
  • [Improvement] New quick-search-bar for easy filtering of screenshots listed in thumbnail panel (see view menu).
  • [Improvement] Added File menu item to close current file and have nothing loaded.
  • [Improvement] If user accidentally loads a second instance, the error message and behavior is clearer.
  • [Improvement] SC now remembers sorting column+direction in list/detail thumbnail sidebar modes.
  • [Improvement] You can now sort standard thumbnail sidebar with newest at top if you like.
  • [Improvement] Improved sizing of columns in different detail view modes; new simple left hand list mode.
  • [Improvement] New option (enabled by default) to auto-select next file after deletions.
  • [Change] Iff multiple images are selected, the toolbar delete button will now delete all instead of just the current image.
  • [BugFix] Print preview settings (margins, orientation, etc.) triggered from post-capture dialog were not being synchronized with main print preview settings.
  • [BugFix] If you brought up Print setup dialog, and from their print properties dialog, it could be hidden behind main window.
  • [BugFix] Fixed case where the last file might not be loaded (or scrolled down to) at start of program.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.5.0 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • [Feature] Post-capture dialog now has a field where you can specify an optional quick custom filename.
  • [MinorFeature] New option to open windows explorer file browser to location of SaveAs image after a SaveAs.
  • [MinorFeature] New option to not uniquify filenames when launching the SaveAs dialog.
  • [MinorFeature] The file template field now has some suggestions in a drop down combo box.
  • [Feature] New options to customize the post-capture dialog to use it in faster one-key dismissal mode and with one key copy-to-clipboard action.
  • [BugFix] Minor UI fixes.
  • [BugFix] Attempting to fix brief appearance of Screenshot Captor taskbar button at windows startup.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now set auto-print option from tray menu.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.4.0 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • [Improvement] Copy to clipboard after capture was not copying any automatically added shadow.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.03.0 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • [Improvement] Clipboard toolbar button now includes some clipboard paste actions.
  • [Improvement] Save and open dialogs are now resizable.
  • [Improvement] Holding shift when triggering delete actions now bypasses recycle bin (conforms with standard windows behavior).
  • [Improvement] You can now set the custom character used to replace illegal filename characters (default is '_')
  • [Improvement+BugFix] Previously, the post-capture pop-up dialog operated on the image PRIOR to any alpha-transparency fixups that were applied to an active window capture; this could result in black areas around images that you copied to clipboard from within the postcapture dialog. Now such operations are performed prior to display in the post-capture dialog -- Thanks BillS!
  • [Change] If you try to trigger an active window capture from system tray menu you now get a message explaining that you can't trigger it that way.
  • [BugFix] Previous version was deleting old settings files into the recycle bin.
  • [BugFix] Random or black 1-pixel sized borders could appear at bottom and/or right border of image if anti-aliasing is enabled and an object with shadows is placed near bottom of image.
  • [BugFix/Change] Mask files should now end in the extension of the mask file format ("e.g. hands.png.maskjpg" if the mask is in jpg format; you can also use maskpng and maskgif)

New in Screenshot Captor 4.01.0 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • [Feature] Improved scanner device selection and support for additional device types (DCIM cameras).
  • [Improvement] Right-clicking in thumbnail panel now has better view options.
  • [BugFix] Left list view was creating multiple columns instead of one long vertical list; now you can use horizontal scrollbar for details.
  • [BugFix] Scanner device would sometimes not switch to TWAIN mode even when configured to use TWAIN.
  • [BugFix] Capturing active window with Aero effects could result in wrong window titlebar information in caption.
  • [BugFix] Right-clicking in thumbnail panel to perform operations could result in exception fault.
  • [BugFix] Sorting of files in thumbnail panel could get messed up after changing to detail view and changing manual sort and then going back to thumbnail view mode.
  • [BugFix] Moving screenshot files via drag+drop to directories was not properly moving the extra .object files.
  • [BugFix] Enabling the capture timer for multiple captures was flashing the active window on each capture.
  • [BugFix] Zoomed out navigation panel was sometimes not updating.

New in Screenshot Captor 4.00.00 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • [MajorFeature] Freehand painting/annotations; Like objects, can be edited after save.
  • [MajorFeature] New (dockable) QuickCapture bar.
  • [MajorFeature] Undo available for most object manipulation actions.
  • [MajorFeature] You can now specify custom comment in post-capture pop-up dialog; option to add caption for this comment and/or store it in image comments.
  • [MajorFeature] You can now capture shots from webcams (see Capture menu).
  • [MajorFeature] New super-easy-to-use built-in image host uploader (currently supports imm.io and imageshack [supports user accounts], more to come); you can still configure the use of ShareX or others if you prefer; warning given on first upload.
  • [Feature] You can now save and load your entire configuration settings to/from different files, to make it easy to switch between groups of settings [see new menubar on options dialog]
  • [Feature] You can now save all selected images to an animated GIF file.
  • [Feature] Added Quick Expand Canvas item in Edit menu for quickly expanding the canvas around the image, which can be useful for adding annotations, etc.
  • [Feature] You can now define your own custom list of preset sizes that will be available in all resizing/regionsizeselection dialogs and menus (thumbnailer, resizer, etc.).
  • [Feature] Resizing and selection options can now work by percentages; you can also include percentage based resizing presets.
  • [Feature] The last directory and file format used in the SaveAs dialog are now remembered; defaults to PNG format.
  • [Feature] When moving old files into the archive directory, ScreenshotCaptor now shows a summary balloon tray message.
  • [Feature] Active window selection and information capture is now smarter about choosing a window or sub-window within the capture region if capturing an area that does not include a foreground active window, or especially if performing an arbitrary region capture. New option (See Window Capturing 1 options tab) to control this.
  • [Feature] Added more color options for captions (see Automatic Captions tab in options to set defaults); better captions during printing.
  • [Feature] You can now nudge objects in the same variety of ways you can use to adjust selection (use ctrl,shift,alt and arrow keys to move, grow, shrink); faster object nudging.
  • [Feature] Selecting and adjusting objects now shows their position and size in status bar -- makes it easier to do fine adjustments.
  • [Feature] Now provides tip on how to speed up saving with many objects and semi-transparency when GDI+ option is off.
  • [Feature] New option to flatten transparency during normal saving (PNG images will not exhibit transparency but will preserve it internally for editing).
  • [Feature] Added Edit menu item to copy current (or selected) image files to clipboard as shell file objects (useful for pasting in email programs, etc.).
  • [Feature] You can now drop files onto the main window and you will be prompted to make some choices (copy or move files into Screenshot directory, add image files as objects onto current image, or switch to the dropped file and path).
  • [Feature] Added option to check for updates at startup.
  • [Feature] In addition to creating animated gifs, you can now display them in SC and easily extract frames (works same as for video files).
  • [Feature] Added complete selection mode button to toolbar (lasso, freehand, magic wand, etc.)
  • [Feature] Added new options for handling large captions (enlarge size of caption box to accomodate wrapped text, auto-reduce font size).
  • [Feature] New option in interface tab to use chessboard pattern for background -- useful for working with transparent images (especially with transparent borders).
  • [Feature] Added new specialfx operation to remove text/noise inside selection region.
  • [Feature] You can now right-click on any clipart object and have it applied as a (tiled) background watermark; you can right-click clipart or frames and choose to view a preview in external viewer.
  • [Feature] Added blendmode property to bitmap objects.
  • [Feature] New option to tell SC not to save active window internal meta data to file comment meta data; useful if you are using images with an application that extracts and uses file comment meta data.
  • [Feature] New buttons added to toolbar (copy to clipboard, select/resize preset sizes, etc.)
  • [Feature] You can now configure what toolbar buttons to show.
  • [Feature] You can now "remember" (or clear) the currently selection region embedded in an image for subsequent use; see the Edit->Selection menu.
  • [Improvement] Major revamping of icons throughout the application by DC member Carroll D. (hamradio); Improvements to organization of menus.
  • [Improvement] Improved alpha transparency rendering when saving images or printing; especially useful when objects are over transparent or semitransparent areas.
  • [Improvement] Objects are now in front of paint layer.
  • [Improvement] Added new option to use GDI+ libraries for alternate implementation of alpha blending and transparency (may be significantly faster when using many objects).
  • [Improvement] Creating new blank image was not clearing transparency info; now uses transparency setting from resize dialog to decide whether to make new image pure opaque or pure transparent.
  • [Improvement] Faster saving when image does not have transparency.
  • [Improvement] Arrow text can now be edited in memo mode, which is more convenient for editing larger multi-line text.
  • [Improvement] Launching of second copy now highlights the tray icon.
  • [Improvement] Last used clipart directory is now remembered between runs.
  • [Improvement] Added more caption options, both in auto captions and in interactive caption dialog.
  • [Improvement] Text boxes can now specify custom border line widths;
  • [Improvement] Post-capture pop-up dialog now prints print-captions.
  • [Improvement] Better print captions for small images.
  • [Improvement] Post-capture pop-up dialog button improvements; remembers position better.
  • [Improvement] Re-organized option dialogs for better readability.
  • [Improvement] New options for post-capture dialog including options on where to show form, whether to show print previews, etc.
  • [Improvement] Added new post-cap option to copy file shell object to clipboard.
  • [Improvement] Repeat region capture will now repeat a caption of the region of the screen selected by a previous *object* capture.
  • [Improvement] Some operations that changed directories was not forcing save of dirty file first.
  • [Improvement] You can drag a folder onto the main window to instruct Screenshot Captor to switch to that directory.
  • [Improvement] Improved application startup time.
  • [Improvement] Added some tooltip hints to some controls.
  • [Improvement] SaveAs folder and format now remembered and used in all places where SaveAs dialog is shown.
  • [Improvement] SaveAs will now use default filename template, and default to a uniquified safe filename.
  • [Improvement] Added option to enable/disable the retrieval of URLs from browsers, and a note about possible slowdowns when doing so; disabled Firefox URL retrieval option by default since it can cause serious capture slowdowns.
  • [Improvement] The Moveto/Goto folder list is now kept in canonical state, handles blank lines, and has a new option to automatically add new folders to it, like a Most-recently-used list.
  • [Improvement] Setup program will now offer to launch Screenshot Captor after installation, even on Windows vista/7/8.
  • [Improvement] Better thumbnail panel sizing; no more horizontal scrollbar.
  • [Improvement] Faster saving of partially transparent images with objects.
  • [Improvement] When switching out of object mode, if an object was selected, it's bounding region becomes selected in normal mode; especially useful for applying effects.
  • [Improvement] If user tries to select a region in Object selection mode containing no objects, SC automatically switches to region selection mode and selects region.
  • [Improvement] Double-clicking an object in region-select mode will now switch to object mode and select the object under cursor; double-clicking in object mode toggles you back to normal region-select mode.
  • [Improvement] The Watermarking submenu of the SpecialFx menu now shows all files in the clipart directory with watermark in their path or name, plus all files in user watermark directory; this makes it easier for addon clipart to include watermarks; see also feature for quickly applying any clipart object as watermark.
  • [Improvement] Improved external tool configuration dialog.
  • [Improvement] Removed old clipart directory; packaged now with DC member App103's nice clipart; moved old clipart into a separate addon download; removed separted Masks directory and rearranged Frames directory.
  • [Improvement] Clicking on a clipart item shows it's full path in statubar.
  • [Improvement] SC now creates a MyClipart and MyFrames directories in the user-writable SC folder where configuration settings are stored, and adds this to the clipart (and watermark) and frame folder list.
  • [Improvement] SC no longer switches out of object mode when saving.
  • [Improvement] Ctrl+A in thumbnail file panel now only selects files (not folders).
  • [Improvement] SaveAs dialogs now have more advanced options that can be chosen for some image file formats.
  • [Improvement] Better tracking of object manipulation for undo actions; better reporting of undo actions and indications of where in undo stack you are (shown on statusbar); larger undo buffer (from 10 to 100).
  • [Improvement] Ctrl+A in object mode now selects all objects.
  • [Improvement] Grab Workspace item is now not shown in tray or quickcap bar if running on single monitor system.
  • [Improvement] Added color-modification options for clipart (see button at bottom of clipart object panel).
  • [Change] Improved menu item names.
  • [Change] Confirmation request when flattening objects to background.
  • [Change] SaveAs dialog now tries to do a faster preview in images with many objects.
  • [Change] Changed ordering of top toolbar buttons.
  • [Change] SC no longer tries to delete objects that are cropped out.
  • [Change] When you change screenshot directories, the "Autocreate JUNK folder" option is disabled, as is the "Auto move old files" option.
  • [Change] Options dialog now has an "Apply" button to test apply any pending options changes.
  • [Change] The internal file comment that specifies last active window region is now written at END of file comment meta data, and is only written if its non-empty.
  • [BugFix] Updated ScDx ScreenshotCaptor DirectX capture addon (separate download).
  • [BugFix] Last non-public beta release was not using unique %num% counters.
  • [BugFix] Capturing windows file explorer was not seeing window title (path).
  • [BugFix] Captions were not sometimes leaving a pixel wide gap at bottom and right of image.
  • [BugFix] Improved flattening of objects and saving of standard file formats with objects+paint.
  • [BugFix] Nudging objects was not marking image as changed; nudging objects is now much faster.
  • [BugFix] Object arrows could reverse direction when image was resized or cropped or objects nudged; changing canvas size could sometimes lose arrow objects.
  • [BugFix] Save selected region as new file was not working right.
  • [BugFix] Functions to select region around objects and expand canvas around objects were not working right.
  • [BugFix] Copy image to clipboard was not properly handling object layering.
  • [BugFix] Fixing bug where application would forget it's non-maximized size+position on screen between runs.
  • [BugFix] When antialiasing enabled, highlight boxes and text memos had a thin colored border even if border option for the object was disabled.
  • [BugFix] Sometimes when changing zoom it would not reapply antialias settings.
  • [BugFix] Sometimes font setting was being reset to default.
  • [BugFix] Finally found and fixed bug that was occasionally causing some preferences (like object defaults) to be reset to defaults between runs.
  • [BugFix] Improved border width around memos; effect of changing memo properties is now immediately visible.
  • [BugFix] MoveTo folder list was corrupting long file paths.
  • [BugFix] Hitting 'c' in region capture mode to set cursor position was sometimes leaving corruption overlayed on capture.
  • [BugFix] When loading low-depth PNG files (or perhaps other non-png files), any alpha transparency added to background would not be saved.
  • [BugFix] Some operations involving selection of files behaved erratically if thumbnail panel was configured to be hidden.
  • [BugFix] Rotating bitmaps now respects aspect ratios.
  • [BugFix] Top labels for zoom percentages were overlapping on large-text setups.
  • [BugFix] Program was never saving changes on exit, regardless of the option to do so.
  • [BugFix] Arrow objects could sometimes be created where the lines would be invisible.
  • [BugFix] Fixed floating point exception that could occur if bitmap object was resized to 0 height or width.
  • [BugFix] SC was not releasing hotkeys when you are on hotkeys configuration page, making it hard to reassign hotkeys; they are now disabled when on this tab.
  • [BugFix] When scanning, scan DPI information was not always being saved in the resulting PNG file, which could cause printable page size to be wrong if image files were manipulated or combined at a later time.
  • [BugFix] Some of the MoveALL and DeleteALL menu items were not always affecting all files if some were selected and some were not.
  • [BugFix] Print margins, alignment, gamma, were not being saved between runs.
  • [BugFix] When moving/copying/renaming files between folders entirely within the thumbnail browser panel (not using SC menus), the .object files associated with images were not accompanying image files.
  • [BugFix] SaveAs dialog was not displaying the "remove metadata?" checkbox on all Save As invocations.
  • [BugFix] Redo was not working on object manipulations.
  • [BugFix] Fixed bug where post-capture form could leave a remnant taskbar entry on closing [thanks app!]
  • [BugFix] Fixed some cases where main SC window was either hiding or grabbing focus after a capture when it shouldn't.
  • [BugFix] Fixed problems with shutting down on windows 7 and higher during reboots or upgrades.
  • [MajorFeature] Preliminary support for playing video files and extracting frames from them; and integration with Easy Screencast Recorder.
  • [MajorFeature] First draft of new (optional) onscreen quick capture bar. The look+feel of this will change dramatically in future versions.
  • [MinorFeature] Will now autodetect and work with SharexMod in addition to ShareX (they are based on same codebase and the differences are not super clear).
  • [InterfaceChange] New hierarchical organization of options dialog.
  • [BugFix] When capturing the active window and main form was visible, SC sometimes failed to properly grab it; SC now does a better job of grabbing last active window, with less delay in reactivating it.
  • [BugFix] Scrolling capture dialog could hide behind main window.
  • [MinorImprovement] Scrolling capture dialog now has help button that links to online scrolling capture tutorial video.
  • [Improvement] Small performance improvement in dragging selection (can still be slow to update tweaking selection size when zoomed out and resize filter is enabled).
  • [BugFix] Scrolling the clipart (or frame) thumbnail panel very quickly could result in error about "List Index Out of Bounds".
  • [Feature] Added new %numinc% field with a resetable persistent counter in options (see File Naming Template tab).
  • [BugFix] Zoom and Navigation panel could be inadvertently scaled by mouse wheel.
  • [BugFix] Minor spelling errors on tooltip hints corrected.
  • [MinorChange] Ctrl+A now should work in comment memo to select all text.
  • [Change] Full filename (not short version) is now sent to ShareX uploader tool.

New in Screenshot Captor 3.08.01 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Automatic Print Captioning was not working if triggered from the optional post-capture dialog.
  • [Change] Improved menu captions for delay and autocapture items; changed autocapture options to allow faster than 1s captures.

New in Screenshot Captor 3.07.01 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Access Violation Errors could be triggered (especially on selected region capture) after the disconnection of a monitor on a multimon system (perhaps also after monitor resolution changes, hibernation wakeup, remote desktop connection/disconnection).
  • [BugFix] Scrolling capture option dialog settings were not being saved.
  • [Documentation] Added documentation on automatic installation of license key, configdir, and settings files.
  • [BugFix] Fields for memo after a scan would sometimes include filename of last application window captured.
  • [BugFix] Using timed autocapture tool to do scanner captures did not work.
  • [Default Change] Set default option to print captions on printouts.
  • [Options] Added options on "Print Options" tab to use default units/page orientation, which should remember last used values.
  • [Change] If option is set to stay minimize and hide main widow on capture, main window will stay hidden after capture even if it was showing at time of capture.
  • [BugFix] Copying and pasting objects using menu could result in new objects pasted out of view.

New in Screenshot Captor 3.06.01 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • Upload tools now support ShareX (new version of ZUploader)

New in Screenshot Captor 3.05.01 (May 25, 2012)

  • [MinorChange] Changed default single tray click action to do nothing (change from shortcuts options tab).
  • [MinorChange] The delay set in WindowCapture1 is now used after moving a window that is partially offscreen when performing a transparent window capture.
  • [MinorFix] On minimized startup, SC will avoid checking for existing of screenshot and MoveTo directories -- useful for network share screenshot directories.
  • [MinorFeature] System tray icon menu items to open last image in viewer or editor.
  • [MinorFeature] Added pop-up context menu to file info/comments panel.
  • Feature] Added option to automatically watermark and/or zupload new screenshots.
  • [Feature] When applying bluring/interlacing/hiding effects, the transparency of the image is now flattened, to avoid leakage of information that could occur with transparency interactions.
  • [Feature] New option (checked by default) to get actual scan DPI after scanning.
  • [Feature] Image captions now support multiline captions (use \n).
  • [Feature] Image captions now support %filememo% for contents of the file memo box.
  • [Feature] Image captions now include left and center align options.
  • [Feature] You can now have captions auto-applied to new screenshots.
  • [Feature] You can now have captions automatically added to printouts (can be used to print date, application name, contents of below-image file memo, etc.)

New in Screenshot Captor 3.04.01 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Panel height for resizable bottom info panel was not being saved/restored between runs.
  • [Feature] Selection (marching ants) is now shown live in the bottom left zoom panel (cursor location is now shown more clearly too).
  • [BugFix] Dirty files are saved prior to executing a zupload action (ensures you dont upload a file that has changed but not been saved yet).
  • [Feature] Added cancel button in options to abandon any changes made in options dialog.
  • [Feature] Installer now has checkbox to start-with-windows (unchecked by default); you can use /MERGETASKS="startforall" if you want to enable this by default during install.
  • [Feature] You can now use alt+arrows to nudge upper left corner of selection (use shift+arrows to nudge bottom right corner, plain arrows to move selection box, and ctrl+arrows to adjust both corners).
  • [Feature] Color of pixel under cursor is now shown on statusbar menu toolbar; hit Ctrl+Alt+B in main window to copy it to cursor (or use alt+E to choose copy color from Edit menu).
  • [MajorFeature] When performing a selected-region capture you can now see a zoomed inset window showing magnified pixel details and precise selection crosshairs; see options for control over the zoom magnification and panel size, and to disable.
  • [Feature] You can now move the cursor icon to be captured when performing a selected-region capture; just hit the C key to move it under the mouse. You can even use this to ADD the cursor if you do not have "capture cursor" mode enabled by default.
  • [Feature] In selected-region capture you can hit the spacebar to reset the starting selection box position (escape cancels).
  • [MinorFeature] Option added to revert to old small crosshairs in selection-region capture mode.
  • [BugFix] Using the MoveTo.. menu item to browse to a folder already on the MoveTo list would result in duplicate directories being added.

New in Screenshot Captor 3.03.01 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Moving of screenshots into OLD folder based on dates was not using local time zone, so folder date labels could be off by a few hours.
  • [MinorFeature] New option to clear arrow endpoint text when new arrows are created.
  • [Feature] From File menu you can now save selected screenshots into one PDF; improve page sizing for PDF files.
  • [Feature] New function in File menu to delete all selected files.
  • [Feature] Added some system SendTo items to the SendTo folder.
  • [Feature] When sending email via MAPI you can now leave TO field blank (to be filled out in your email program).
  • [MinorChange] Added longer delay after capturing selected region image with cursor, in order to give time to move cursor to desired position.
  • [Feature] After you initiate an object capture, you can now hit the hotkey to trigger it again in order to indicate that the current region should be captured and saved, but object mode left open to capture another; useful for performing several repeat captures.
  • [Feature] New option to not show email info dialog when using MAPI.

New in Screenshot Captor 3.00.00 (Feb 6, 2012)

  • [MajorFeature] New spice effects (ragged edge, etc.); also available in cropping and in border menu.
  • [MajorFeature] Super deluxe scrolling capture system.
  • [MajorFeature] Easy watermarking menu and options.
  • [MinorFeature] Options to preserve dates when saving modifying screenshot files.
  • [MinorFeature] Options to rename when changing content and filename field of files.
  • [MinorFeature] Loading an image now shows its creation/modification date in statusbar.
  • [BugFix] Fixed rare problem with settings file not saving on networked pcs; added option to not save settings during logoff of user.
  • [BugFix] Fixed minor issues when initiating a capture and SC needed to show save-confirmation dialog for previous image.
  • [BugFix] You can now capture cursor even in region select capture mode (just move cursor to position quickly after initiating capture); configured delay no longer happens BEFORE start of capture.
  • [BugFix] Fixed an access error that could occur if you deleted the first screenshot you take after starting program.
  • [BugFix] Arrow text (and text box?) text editing could be really slow sometimes.
  • [BugFix] Recent version was failing to edit previous text of arrow labels.
  • [BugFix] Email SendTo would add new items even if toemail field was blank.
  • [MinorFeature] MoveTo directories can now support things like %APPDIR% etc for more portable configuration.
  • [BugFix] Miscelaneous small bug fixes.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.103.01 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Fixed bug where thumbnail panel would not always update after new screenshot.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.102.01 (Sep 30, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Fixed a rare problem that was causing truncated full screen screenshots (and enlarged region capture previews) on some users with Windows7 and large fonts.
  • [BugFix] Changing some options in Highlight object (circle vs box) were sometimes not being accepted immediately
  • [MinorImprovement] Better automatic-sized thumbnail panel on Windows Vista/7 themes.
  • [MinorFeature] Added link in help menu to visit page of screencast videos for the program.
  • [BugFix] Selected Region grab was sometimes not showing region size hint.
  • [MinorImprovement] Selected region capture now shows full screen sized crosshairs at cursor.
  • [MinorImprovement] Selected region capture was capturing one pixel margin too much on left and top.
  • [MinorImprovement] You can now press spacebar and let go of left mouse during region grab to free the cursor to change grab start location.
  • [MinorImprovement] After a Selected region capture, SC forces previously active window to be foreground before copying any image to clipboard -- improves identification of source of image in clipboard tools (see Clipboard Help+Spell).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.101.01 (Sep 30, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Better grabbing of active window executable filename (especially with 64bit processed)
  • [MinorFeature] Post capture pop-up dialog now has an easy way to configure whether it is shown after captures.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now specify a custom path to ZUploader (or event use a different tool in its place)
  • [MinorImprovement] Improved size of ellipse border around line arrow text.
  • Feature] Line arrow text can now be multi-line (separate with \n)

New in Screenshot Captor 2.99.02 (Sep 30, 2011)

  • [Minor Feature] New checkbox in SaveAs dialog to strip all metadata on save (remembers last setting)
  • [Feature] You can now set blend mode for highlight boxes and text boxes -- lets you keep the text underneath clearly visible.
  • [BugFix] Increased speed of object editing.
  • [BugFix] SaveAs would lock the destination folder from deletion; fixed.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set the background color for text labels on arrows.
  • [BugFix] Spliceout was not preserving alpha transparency.
  • [Minor Feature] Splice out operation now asks about vertical or horizontal if its not clear from selection.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set a custom capture sound.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set origin point styles for arrow line label text.
  • [BugFix] Increased height margin for line arrow text label borders.
  • [Feature] Added support and help for the excellent free open source 3rd party uploader tool ZUploader (from the makers of the screenshot tool ZScreen); supports auto or tool-based upload to various image hosting sites like imageshack, and many more.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.99.01 (Sep 8, 2011)

  • [Minor Feature] New checkbox in SaveAs dialog to strip all metadata on save (remembers last setting)
  • [Feature] You can now set blend mode for highlight boxes and text boxes -- lets you keep the text underneath clearly visible.
  • [BugFix] Increased speed of object editing.
  • [BugFix] SaveAs would lock the destination folder from deletion; fixed.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set the background color for text labels on arrows.
  • [BugFix] Spliceout was not preserving alpha transparency.
  • [Minor Feature] Splice out operation now asks about vertical or horizontal if its not clear from selection.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set a custom capture sound.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now set origin point styles for arrow line label text.
  • [BugFix] Increased height margin for line arrow text label borders.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.97.03 (Sep 8, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Fixed bug where typing text on arrow labels could become very slow; fix should speed up text editing in all cases, and improve anti-alias look of memo and line text; try 2.
  • [Minor Feature] Transparency of memo boxes and labels now excludes text, which is always opaque.
  • [Minor Feature] Early first attempt at improved arrow connection points on labeled lines.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.96.01 (Sep 8, 2011)

  • [MinorFeature] You can now reselect the last selection region location (see Edit menu); useful for selecting same area in multiple files, or reselection region after an undo.
  • [MinorFeature] Added new option to help aero transparency capture of child windows; note that you now have to make sure the child window is off of the parent background form to get a good aero capture.
  • [Feature] Added GoTo menu for quick jumping between favorite folders; moved some File menu items into it. Startup screenshot folder auto-added to list.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to hide tray icon completely; not recommended.
  • [BugFix] Captures from Opera did not get url;
  • [BugFix] Captures from chrome on https pages had incorrect urls in notes.
  • [Feature] Added commandline screenshot emailing option, and includes the sendmail.exe commandline tool; useful for people who need to be able to send secure smtp emails or who want to use a custom batch file for sending emails. (If you plan to use this feature you need to download the sendEmail executable from http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/).
  • [MinorFeature] Built with lastest shell browser library for thumbnail panel.
  • [BugFix] Update check dialog could be missing Close button.
  • [BugFix] Last build may not have been configured to use the new CommonControls from windows, which fix a few bugs mentioned in past updates).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.95.01 (Jun 7, 2011)

  • [BugFix] When capturing scans, the previous screencapture active window info could be kept in image comments.
  • [MinorFeature] Added Pixelate *outside* region special effect.
  • [Feature] Fixed bug in sorting by date and added new options to sort by either creation date or lastmodification date.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.94.01 (Jun 7, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Windows 7 (vista?) could give error on startup about inability to create a .redirect file for update checker.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.93.01 (Mar 23, 2011)

  • Great multimon support

New in Screenshot Captor 2.90.01 (Feb 16, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Attempt to fix bug where thumbnail panel was sometimes not updating on new images.
  • [BugFix] Manifest was not being embedded leading to beep sound when selecting items in thumbnail or capturing screenshots (mostly under Windows Vista).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.89.01 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] Mini-update checking now included even without use of DcUpdater tool.
  • [MinorFeature] Move-to folders are not checked for existence if they are UNC network paths.
  • [BugFix] Attempt to fix bug where deleting multiple images could result in error reloading refreshing thumbnails.
  • [BugFix] Attempt to fix bug where post capture popup form was shown in front of options and sendto form.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.88.01 (Oct 8, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] Exe version info will now be synchronized with official program version info; should make it easier to use 3rd party update checkers.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.87.01 (Oct 8, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] The active window filename fields that can be used in file naming or info templates now do not include the file extension (.exe)
  • [BugFix] Adding an image caption was not setting file dirty, and so not prompting you to save changes if you select a new image.
  • [MinorFeature] Trying to get SC to handle network paths (start with //) better for screenshot and moveto directories.
  • [BugFix] Copying image with transparency to clipboard left big black areas where semi-transparency should be.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.85.01 (Oct 8, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] Tools directory is rescanned and tools refreshed after closing the Edit Tools dialog (saves you from having to exit program and restart).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.84.01 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • [HelpFile] Updated the information on using Ctrl+Shift trick with the MoveTo menu, and changed behavior slightly -- thanks lanux!
  • [MinorFeature] Browse for new screenshot folder now lets you put in path manually if you want.
  • [BugFix] If you switch or rename image files while editing a text box object on a newly created text box, you lose the text.
  • [MinorFeature} You can now hold the Ctrl key while using the "move to.." menu item

New in Screenshot Captor 2.82.01 (Jun 2, 2010)

  • [Feature] New "Splice" commands in SpecialFx menu -- allow you to splice out horizontal or vertical regions, like banners. Good for removing ad regions in screenshots, etc.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.81.01 (May 5, 2010)

  • [MajorFeature] Completely re-rewritten new method for capturing Aero Glass themed Semi-transparent windows on Vista and Windows 7. Based on an approach described by Ian Griffiths (http://www.interact-sw.co...g/2007/01/30/recoveralpha), with several tweaks for automatic border detection and improved color handling. A new options tab ("Windows Capturing") was added to control the various options for it. Note that by default SC will preserve the entire transparency recovered from the window; this will allow you to composite the screenshot in graphics editing software with it's original semi-transparent regions and effects. By default SC will attempt to remove the shadow effect imparted by Aero, but you can change this on the Windows Capture option tab.
  • [MinorChange] Changed default hotkey for capturing active window to Ctrl+PrtScr (the previous default of Alt+PrtScr was very stupid decision since the Alt key can activate menus)
  • [BugFix] SC was refusing to capture certain windows like Google Chrome; errors in capturing are now reported better.
  • [BugFix] With the option to remove border shadow, full screen active window captures were being eaten into; SC now ignores this option on maximized apps.
  • [MinorFeature] Removed aero capture delay setting - SC should now capture as fast as it can and lengthen delay when needed.
  • [BugFix] Hopefully eliminated bug where aero capture could be blank if screen refresh did not happen fast enough.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.78.01 (Dec 24, 2009)

  • [Feature] New option to auto-file older screenshots into a subdirectory based on date -- useful in keeping your workspace cleaner.
  • [Minor Feature] You can now use Ctrl+A in the thumbnail panel to select all files.
  • [BugFix] Fix for thumbnail creation flickering.
  • [Minor Feature] When capturing desktop and no active window is selected; instead of the file comments saying "explorer.exe" they say "Desktop"
  • [Minor Feature] Transparency tool setting was not being saved between runs.
  • [Minor Feature] Added list of capture types you can trigger from commandline.
  • [Minor Feature] Fixed the "-printnext" commandline option.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.77.01 (Nov 30, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] In addition to existing commandline options, you can now just pass filename or directory name on commandline to open that file or directory, which makes SC suitable for using as an "Open With" program (also unminimizes from tray when launched in this way, even if already running).
  • [MinorFeature] You can pass "-scan" commandline option to initiate a scan -- note that you can do this even if Screenshot Captor is already running -- it will trigger a scan in the existing running instance.
  • [Feature] When you rename a file using the "Name:" box, SC no longer forces a resave of the file, which could result in image degradation and an updated file date; it now does a pure file rename (object file as well) if nothing but filename has changed (and extension is unchanged of course). If you change the file extension from the "Name:" box, a new file will be created.
  • [MinorFeature] Added bottom+right border effect
  • [Feature] You can now cancel an autoscroll capture by hitting the escape key.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.76.01 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • [BugFix] In latest version a bug was introduced where if you changed screenshot directories you couldnt load images from the new directory (it always reverted to the old directory).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.75.01 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] PDF files are now saved with better compression.
  • [Feature] You can now ask SC to autosave scans as PDF files in a specific directory, and to auto-open if desired.
  • [Feature] New PDF save button on scanner toolbar saved current image to specific directory; can be used to save multiple images to one multi-page pdf.
  • [BugFix] Toolbar positions were sometimes not being remembered.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.72.01 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] You can now set the color of the thumbnail panel.
  • [MinorFeature] Interface Options now split into two tabs.
  • [BugFix] Triggering zoom-to-selection was reducing the selection size by one pixel on right and bottom edge.
  • [BugFix] Option to grab scanner background was not happening early enough so sometimes autoselection of foreground was not working in scanner captures.
  • [MinorFeature] SC now asks for confirmation when using the Delete All action.
  • [BugFix] When thumbnail panel was disabled completely, changes to the current file by an external tool were not detected.
  • [BugFix] Thumbnail/file panel was not being updated after unhiding it.
  • [BugFix] SC was not remembering what monitor it was last on in multi-monitor configurations. sorry!
  • [BugFix] SC was moving to primary monitor after a region capture.
  • [BugFix] Post-capture dialog was showing on primary monitor regardless of main form position.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.70.01 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • [MajorFeature] Full support of scanning functionality -- you can now use SC as your scanning tool of choice.
  • [MinorFeature] Discarding an image from quick popup now clears the image display, and doesn't perform any postcapture stuff.
  • [MinorFeature] Image Effects/Color Dialog is now forced to a large size over the original image.
  • [Feature] New second-instance commandline option passing; you can now pass commandline arguments when you call Screenshot Captor, and if an instance is already running -- these arguments will be passed to the FIRST instance while the second silently exits.
  • [Feature] New commandline arguments to begin a scan or initiate a capture.
  • [Feature] Screenshot Captor now registers itself as a potential target of Windows WIA/ImageCapture services -- so scanner buttons can be programmed to launch it and initiate a capture (or call with -scan on commandline manually).

New in Screenshot Captor 2.57.01 (Jun 27, 2009)

  • Carriage return characters in filename (from variable field replacements) were causing file save errors; now converted to underscores.
  • Used HamRadio's new icons for system tray.
  • You can now specify separators in your custom tool configuration by using - as the title.
  • You can now create external .sctool tool configuration files.
  • Added new filename actions for external tool launching that forces files saved with no objects (and re-adds object after).
  • If you use the %fileplain% field when launching tools now, it will pass the image file without objects, and continually reload it and add back objects when it changes.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.56.01 (May 22, 2009)

  • Cursor was not being captured in object/region modes
  • New program icon (thanks Hamradio!)
  • Adding hotkey shortcuts to mouseover hints on SC toolbar buttons.
  • Redbox object capture could sometimes capture the red borders.
  • Sort by date of thumbnail panel was failing on users who have file extensions hidden.
  • Sorting in details mode now works and user can sort on any column.
  • Maybe fixed a problem with SC hanging after capture on rare occasions.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.55.01 (May 17, 2009)

  • Fixed annoying beep on restoring window from minimization.
  • Fixed bug where SC could crash when capturing windows who have client maximized outside normal window area (Photoshop full screen mode).
  • Tried to fix errors when SC is trying to save a blank filename or an illegal filename; now SC will try to shorten a filename which is too long, or add a default filename if the constructed one is blank.
  • Improved error and instructions if file failed to save.
  • Starting adding icons in program menus.
  • Option to open SaveAs folder after doing a save as.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.53.01 (Mar 19, 2009)

  • Fixed rare bug that could cause an exception when waking from hibernation (especially on multimonitor systems); or when turning off secondary monitors [Thanks Roman!]

New in Screenshot Captor 2.50.01 (Mar 9, 2009)

  • Added new "Move To" menu item which will create a folder based on current date and move all screenshots into it; useful for quick organizing of screenshot folder.
  • Added new "Move To" menu for moving only old files and sorting into subfolders based on date of screenshot; userful for cleaning up a big directory of screenshots.
  • Added sort by -> name option in View menu.
  • Post-capture popup dialog SaveAs now defaults to template filename and configured file type/extension.
  • Added new interlace special effects, including one meant for security purposes that will blur and then interlace.
  • [BugFix] Discard changes wasn't reloading the original file.
  • [BugFix] Thumbnail option to not change to new thumbnail was not being obeyed.
  • [BugFix] SC would sometimes select the entire screenshot contents when capturing a region inside the active window.
  • [BugFix] The option chosen on SaveOverwrite popup was not being saved if triggered while exiting.
  • Added new Region Border Glow effect.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.47.01 (Mar 2, 2009)

  • Attempting to make all region and object capture modes work better on multimonitor setups; no need to activate from desired monitor.
  • Adding ability to abort region captures with escape key.
  • Trying to skip the cleared screen message which used to show on saving image.
  • [Bugfix] Trying to eliminate floating point error some were seeing on region capture.
  • [Bugfix] Main form could stay hidden even when there was a pending overwrite/cancel/save dialog trying to be shown.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.44.01 (Nov 3, 2008)

  • Fixed bug where the copy-to-clipboard button on bottom was being hidden

New in Screenshot Captor 2.28.06 (Dec 14, 2006)

  • Added option to disable auto creation of the MyJunk folder.
  • MyJunk folder now ONLY gets autocreated on startup, not every time you switch to MyJunk folder, and on demand if user tries to move files into it.
  • Switches back to normal rectangular selection mode after new capture.
  • Added optional toggle visibility hotkey.
  • If moveto folder doesnt exist, moveto operation is ignored.
  • Hold Shift in MoveTo menu to switch to the target dir instead of moving; Hold Ctrl to switch after moving.

New in Screenshot Captor 2.26.01 (Nov 8, 2006)

  • Major update of Graphics Component (ImageEn) should result in faster image file loading

New in Screenshot Captor 2.25.03 (Oct 9, 2006)

  • great multimon support

New in Screenshot Captor 2.18.03 (Jul 19, 2006)

  • great multimon support