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Portable FastStone Capture Changelog

What's new in Portable FastStone Capture 10.4

Dec 22, 2023
  • Enhanced Screen Recorder:
  • Simplified the Start Recording window. Switch between simplified mode and detailed mode with just a single click
  • Enable/disable devices like Microphone, Speaker, and Webcam directly within the Start Recording window
  • Enhanced Eraser in Draw tool:
  • Show a circular cursor to indicate the area to be erased.
  • Right click mouse to pick a screen color
  • Scroll mouse wheel to adjust eraser size
  • Enhanced the Save dialog in the Scan tool with improved functionality and user interface.
  • Added "Save All (same name)" option (Ctrl+Alt+S) to the File menu in FastStone Editor, allowing you to save multiple images with the same name and a sequential number
  • Many other small enhancements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 10.3 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • Enhanced Screen Recorder:
  • Audio indicator is displayed on the control bar during screen recording
  • In video editor, auto-preserve annotation objects for re-editing after editor is closed
  • Enhanced Draw tool:
  • Increased maximum font size of text objects to 200 pt
  • Text input box is resizable
  • Image and Emoji objects can be flipped and rotated (left/right)
  • Added 3D arrows to Emoji list
  • Enhanced window border capturing on Windows 10/11
  • Now it is possible to:
  • Use Ctrl+Click to select and open multiple recent files
  • Add MS Paint as an external editor on Windows 11
  • Made other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 10.2 (Jul 5, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug that caused audio noise in Screen Recorder

New in Portable FastStone Capture 10.1 (Jul 1, 2023)

  • Added a Timer option to Screen Recorder. Users can schedule recordings by specifying Start/End times
  • Added "Select focus area" option to Screen Focus tool. Users can press Ctrl+Shift to select screen area to focus on
  • Added support for Webp format
  • Made other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 10.0 (May 10, 2023)

  • Enhanced Screen Recorder:
  • Added Webcam option to include webcam in recordings
  • Added "Microphone Settings" and "Webcam Settings"
  • Added "Extract Audio ..." menu with support for M4A and MP3
  • Added "Press Esc to close main window" to Options -> Hotkeys
  • Added "Auto-boost volume when recording speakers" to Options -> Audio
  • Removed requirement for a physical microphone when recording speakers
  • Added "Acquire Images from Scanner" to built-in editor
  • Made other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.9 (Feb 4, 2023)

  • Use MP4 as the default output format for Screen Recorder on Windows 10/11
  • Added "Convert to MP4" to Screen Recorder. You can use it to convert or resize video files (WMV and MP4) using the new MP4 format
  • Now Screen Recorder can detect and recover a screen recording from an unexpected Windows shutdown or restart
  • Enhanced the built-in video editor:
  • Added a Title Page tool which allows you to insert title pages anywhere in the video clip
  • Added Emoji to the Draw tool
  • To trim a video clip, simply click and drag from the beginning or end of the timeline
  • In Screen Recorder's Options -> Notifications tab, you can customize the color and size of the control bar
  • Fixed a position error in zoom mode of Draw tool
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.7 (Sep 11, 2021)

  • Introduced a new image format called FastStone Capture format (*.fsc). This format preserves annotation objects together with the image data for future re-editing
  • Added "Filled Polygon" and "Emoji" to the Draw tool
  • Improved reliability and performance of "Capture Scrolling Window"
  • Added Language option to the Settings
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.6 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Translated user interface into 12 languages including Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
  • Improved reliability and performance of "Capture Scrolling Window"
  • Enhanced "Fill with Color" in Draw tool. Now you can select a screen color by right-clicking
  • Enhanced Screen Color Picker
  • Improved support for 4K monitors
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes
  • Enhanced Screen Recorder:
  • Auto detect and switch to active speaker when recording speaker
  • Added confirmation window when discarding current recording
  • Fixed a bug that fails to start recording on external monitors
  • Fixed a bug that fails to cut videos

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.5 (May 19, 2021)

  • Translated user interface into 12 languages including Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
  • Improved reliability and performance of "Capture Scrolling Window"
  • Enhanced "Fill with Color" in Draw tool. Now you can select a screen color by right-clicking
  • Enhanced Screen Color Picker
  • Enhanced Screen Recorder:
  • Auto detect and switch to active speaker when recording speaker
  • Added confirmation window when discarding current recording
  • Fixed a bug that fails to start recording on external monitors
  • Fixed a bug that fails to cut videos
  • Improved support for 4K monitors
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.4 (Aug 22, 2020)

  • Added OneNote as an output option
  • Added 3 options to Editor tab of Settings:
  • "Set default tool in Draw"
  • "Highlight active tab"
  • "Use workspaces to group tabs". This option allows you to organize and group captured images (tabs) in multiple workspaces. Each workspace remembers its last-used folder and works like a separate instance of FastStone Editor
  • Added "Stay on Screen" and "Minimize to System Tray" options to "Run when Windows starts"
  • Added "Send to New Tab" (Alt+C) to duplicate the current tab as a new tab
  • Added a count down text box to "Delay before Capture"
  • Added Apply button to Settings window
  • Added 2 icons (left/right clicks) to "Insert Mouse Pointer" in Draw tool
  • Enhanced "Save As" and "Open" dialogs:
  • Added "Hold Alt key to peek behind this window" option to "Save As" dialog
  • Resizable:
  • Size and position are kept for next use
  • Added "Delay before showing" option (click [...] in Toolbar tab of Settings) for the hidden toolbar
  • Added preview option to "Spotlight" effect
  • Added a right-click menu to "Capture Fixed-Size Region"
  • Added Contrast and Gamma auto-adjustment to "Acquire Images from Scanner". Enhanced the De-skew algorithm
  • Added tips for the toolbar buttons of FastStone Editor
  • In Draw tool, press Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle through drawing tools
  • Enhanced "Screen Color Picker". After picking a screen color, click the "New" color box to fine tune the color
  • Enhanced Print dialog. Now you can:
  • Print multiple images in batch mode
  • Print file name in the header area
  • Enhanced Edge/Watermark. Watermark image is resizable
  • Enhanced "Make Background Transparent" (Ctrl+T) by adding 3 options: Preview, Tolerance and Anti-aliased
  • Enhanced "Fill with Color" in Draw tool by adding 2 options: Tolerance and Transparent Fill
  • Optimized loading speed of Draw tool. Now it re-opens much faster
  • Many other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.3 (Nov 20, 2019)

  • Enhanced Draw tools:
  • Added Indent option to Highlighter
  • Added Shape option to Line Highlighter
  • Added Bracket tool
  • Added Blur tool
  • Improved image quality of Magnifier
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.2 (Sep 13, 2019)

  • Enhanced Draw tools
  • Added a Border option to Highlighter
  • Added a Highlight option to Magnifier
  • Added left/right click option when Mouse Pointer inserted
  • Smoother Pencil and enhanced L-Line
  • Draw tools load faster
  • Added Classic Skin option to Editor under its Settings menu
  • Added a new method (by entering diagonal length of screen) to calibrate Screen Ruler
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.1 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Added a Clone tool (press C key to open) to the internal editor
  • Added more preset colors for text boxes in Draw
  • During rectangular region capture, you can switch corners by pressing Tab key
  • Improved support for touch screens and high-resolution screens
  • Improved compatibility with various scanners
  • Improved number and letter stamps
  • Optimized Window / Object capture
  • In the editor, press Ctrl+S to open Save dialog, press Ctrl+S again to confirm (No need to click Save button)
  • Many other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 9.0 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • Added "Auto Screen Capture", which automatically and repeatedly captures the screen at user-specified time intervals
  • Added "Auto-Send to Clipboard" option to the right click menu in Screen Ruler. This option sends measurements to Clipboard automatically
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.9 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Added "To Draw (Skip Editor)" as a new output destination option
  • Added "Print" button to Draw tool
  • Enhanced Window/Object Capture function on Windows 10
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.8 (Feb 17, 2018)

  • Enhanced Draw tool by adding:
  • Oval Text Box
  • Magnifier
  • 3 options (Rectangle, Round Corners and Oval) for Highlighter
  • Preset colors for all annotation objects
  • Added "Delay before Capture" option to Capture Panel. A delay timer can be used to capture drop-down/pop-up menus
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.7 (Nov 29, 2017)

  • Enhanced the Draw tool, now you can:
  • Draw curved text
  • Insert text along a curved line (Right-click on the line and select "Insert Text")
  • Draw fancy lines (10 styles)
  • Apply an Outline effect to lines, rectangles and ellipses
  • Added an option (Use @ in file name template) to generate random characters (0-9,a-z,A-Z) in file names. See "File Name" tab in the Settings
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.6 (Aug 24, 2017)

  • Added an audio indicator to Screen Recorder
  • Added resizing handles to the "Acquire Images from Scanner" tool
  • Standard sizes for fixed-size region are customizable
  • Converts multi-page TIFF file to PDF file
  • Improved support for 4K monitors
  • Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.5 (Aug 24, 2017)

  • Enhanced rendering quality of annotations in Draw tool
  • Added 4 different dash styles to lines in Draw tool
  • Added 4 resizing handles to the corners of captured images
  • Added a sub-menu under the Open button in Editor for fast access to recent files
  • Optimized video recorder for better CPU utilization
  • Improved support for high-resolution monitors
  • Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.4 (Jan 15, 2016)

  • Added support for high-DPI/high-resolution/4K monitors
  • Added a tool called Screen Focus, which helps you stay focused on the task under the mouse pointer by dimming the rest of the screen
  • Added an option to show file names to the output of the "Join Images Side by Side" tool
  • Added "Adjust Lighting" to the Colors menu
  • Enhanced the Resize tool so you can resize the image based on pixels or percentage
  • Enhanced the "Acquire Images from Scanner" tool by allowing you to adjust the colors and lighting of scanned images
  • Other improvements and bug fixes
  • Enhanced the Screen Color Picker. Now you can:
  • Press Space/+/- key to zoom in/out. Picking a color from an enlarged image is easier
  • Specify prefix and suffix to customize the format of RGB, Dec and Hex values

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.3 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Added support for unicode filenames throughout the software. Screenshots can be saved in different types of characters (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian ...)
  • Added "Eye Dropper" to all color dialogs
  • Added "Pixelate" as a new option for blurring images
  • Improved the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool. Now it supports Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10
  • Improved the "Draw" tool. Both number and letter stamps can be used on screenshots
  • Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.2 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.1 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • Added "Follow mouse pointer" option to the screen recorder, which enables the recording region to follow the movement of the mouse pointer
  • You can also move the recording region by dragging its borders
  • Added hotkey F5 to zoom in/out while recording a screen video
  • Added Quality options to the Audio tab of the screen recorder
  • Added "Close tab by double-clicking on tab name" to the Editor tab of FastStone Capture's Settings
  • Now you can put more buttons on the capture toolbar
  • Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 8.0 (Dec 20, 2014)

  • Added "Fixed-Size Region" to the screen video recorder
  • Added animated GIF converter to the screen video editor. This allows you to convert your screen videos to animated gif files, which are supported by most web browsers
  • Now you can drag and move the yellow control bar for screen video recording
  • Other minor improvements

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.9 (Jul 30, 2014)

  • Added "Polyline" and "Insert Mouse Pointer / Icon" to the Draw tool
  • Added "Remove Strip / Insert Strip" to the right-click menu on a selected area
  • Added "Lock Toolbar Position" option (a pin icon) to the new capture toolbar activated from the editor. This will lock the toolbar position for next use
  • Now, you can join images together into a new tab directly. In previous version, it is required to save the file first
  • Other minor improvements

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.8 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Added support of tabs to the editor. This allows you to capture, open and edit multiple screenshots simultaneously
  • Added New and Save All commands to the File menu of the editor
  • Added Tools menu to the editor. Now you can save multiple screenshots as a PDF file or combine multiple screenshots into an image within the editor
  • Added a hotkey option to the Settings to activate the Capture toolbar if it is hidden
  • Many small improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.7 (Feb 8, 2014)

  • Now you can use drag-and-drop to move (copy when Ctrl key is down) selected area
  • Added two new selection methods
  • Added Undo/Redo buttons on the menu bar of the editor
  • Added Spotlight effect
  • Many small improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.6 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • Added "Screen Crosshair". It displays two full-screen intersecting lines (crosshair) on the screen with a magnifier showing the details of the area around the mouse pointer. You may find it helpful to align screen objects, compare chart or tabular data and underline the text you are reading.
  • Added "Join Images Side by Side". You can use it to combine multiple images into a single image file
  • Added option "Show resizing handles on image borders" to the Settings (in Editor tab). By dragging the resizing handles, you can remove unwanted borders or add blank space to the image easily and precisely
  • Added option "Copy captured image to Clipboard automatically" to the Settings (in Capture tab). Check this option if you want to send a copy of the captured image to Windows Clipboard automatically every time you make a screen capture
  • Added a "Reset" button to the Settings window so you can reset your settings to their default values
  • Improved "Screen Ruler"
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes
  • Improved "Video Editor":
  • Added "Step Forward" and "Step Backward" for navigation between video frames
  • Fixed a bug: some part of video frames are black when viewed in the video editor

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.5 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Added "Print" tab to the Settings. Now you have an option to print directly to the default printer without showing the Print dialog
  • Added Drop Shadow option to the Reflection tool under Effects menu
  • Enhanced the video editor of the built-in screen video recorder
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes
  • Enhanced the Draw tool:
  • Now you can draw both straight and curved lines using the Line tool
  • Added 10 styles to the Line and Pencil tools
  • Added Number Stamp
  • Added Eraser
  • Added L-Line
  • Added "Align" (top, left, right, bottom, width, height and size) to the right click menu on multiple objects
  • Enhanced "Select Canvas". Now you can crop, blur, copy, cut, paste and delete a selected area. You can even fill it with a screen color
  • Now you can select multiple objects and change their attributes as a group

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.4 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • Supports touch interface
  • Added 2 new options in the Settings:
  • "Auto-hide capture toolbar when it reaches the top of the screen"
  • "Bigger buttons on capture toolbar"
  • Improved the Print dialog
  • Improved the "Fixed Region" capture tool: now you can press Shift + arrow keys to adjust the width and height of the fixed region
  • Added a hotkey for "Import from Clipboard" in the Hotkeys tab of the Settings
  • Now it is possible to use the screen capture and screen recorder at the same time if you disable the new option "Hide Toolbar when using Screen Recorder" in the Settings
  • Now you can preview the fonts in the font list of the Draw tool
  • Added a "Blur" button in the image editor
  • Added a "Save" button to the Email window when "To Email" is selected as the Output destination
  • Added an option to adjust the volume of mouse click sound for the screen recorder
  • Supports output to Excel
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.3 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • Improved the Auto Caption tool
  • Improved compatibility with Windows 8 RTM
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes
  • Improved the screen recorder:
  • Added an option (for Vista, Windows 7 and 8) to record audio from both microphone and speakers at the same time
  • Added an option to repeat the last screen recording
  • Improved the video editor. Now you can:
  • Remove unwanted sections from a screen video
  • Save a video frame to a file or copy it to Clipboard
  • Drag and drop a video file onto the screen recorder's panel to open it in the video editor

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.2 (Jun 30, 2012)

  • Added a video editor to the screen recorder to allows users to add annotation objects (texts, arrows, rectangles, circles, etc.) and zoom effects to screen video files
  • Improved the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool
  • Improved compatibility with Windows 8 RP (Release Preview)
  • Other minor improvements

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.1 (Apr 20, 2012)

  • Enhanced the Print dialog. Now it is possible to print both header and footer
  • Improved "Capture Scrolling Window" tool
  • Improved compatibility with Customer Preview version of Windows 8
  • Other improvements and bug fixes
  • Enhanced the built-in screen recorder:
  • Added Pause / Resume support
  • Added an option (for Vista, Windows 7 and 8 only) to record computer speakers (what you hear) directly

New in Portable FastStone Capture 7.0 (Nov 22, 2011)

  • Improved the "Draw" tool:
  • Now it is possible to draw same kind of objects continuously without having to select the drawing tool again and again
  • Ctrl+S shortcut to the OK button
  • Ctrl+MouseWheel to zoom in / out
  • Zoom up to 400% instead of 200%
  • Improved "Acquire Images from Scanner"
  • Combined color adjustment tools into one comprehensive tool: "Adjust Colors"
  • Added more effects: Reflection, Oil Painting and Sketch
  • Added "Recent Files" list for quick access to recently used files
  • Added some shortcuts to the editor
  • Press Z key to zoom selection
  • Press W key to open containing folder if the file exists
  • Press I key to view file properties if the file exists
  • Added more options to the "Editor" section of the Settings
  • Added more options to the "Screen Magnifier" section of the Settings
  • Added "Rotate by Any Degree"
  • Supports custom colors in all color picking dialogs
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.9 (May 26, 2011)

  • Added "Acquire Images from Scanner". It supports batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG. It allows users to rotate, crop, deskew, annotate and save scanned images directly within this tool
  • Added "Capture Fixed-Size Region"
  • Added "Repeat Last Capture"
  • Now it is possible to use drag-and-drop to open an image in the internal editor
  • Added "Fit to Width" (press K) option to the internal editor
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.8 (Apr 26, 2011)

  • Improved the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool. Now it is compatible with the latest version of popular web browsers: Internet Explorer 9, FireFox 4, Chrome 10, Opera 11 and Safari 5
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.7 (Sep 6, 2010)

  • Improved PDF output. Now it is possible to specify Page Size, Quality, Margins and Orientation when saving in PDF format. Lengthy document is divided into multi-pages automatically
  • Added a tool called "Convert Images to a PDF file" to allow users to convert images to a multi-page PDF file
  • Added "Expand Canvas" to the Draw tool
  • Added "Blur" to the right-click menu of the Draw tool when part of the image is selected
  • Assigned keyboard shortcuts to drawing tools. For example: press F1 for Text, press F2 for Straight Line, press F3 for Pencil etc.
  • Added an option to the Settings to allow users to specify which screen (active or all) to capture when making Full Screen Capture in multi-monitor system
  • Fixed minor bugs

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.6 (Jun 26, 2010)

  • Improved the Draw tool. Now it is possible to:
  • Add outward-pointing tails to text objects
  • Copy/cut/past annotation objects and areas of the canvas
  • Fill with color
  • Undo / Redo
  • Zoom In / Zoom Out
  • Added "Custom Scroll Mode" to the "Capture Scrolling Window" tool. Custom Scroll Mode allows users to capture any part of the screen that scrolls vertically
  • Added "Screen Color Picker" to the Editor's Colors menu
  • Added option "Show capture buttons in editor" to the software Settings
  • Now it is possible to make annotation directly in the Email tool
  • Supported variables %COMPUTERNAME% and %USERNAME% in File Name Template
  • Supported variables %MYDOCUMENTS% and %MYDESKTOP% in the path of "Auto Save" output folder
  • Some other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.5 (Jun 26, 2010)

  • Improved Capture Window / Object
  • Improved Print dialog
  • Fixed a bug in Capture Scrolling Window

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.4 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Added "Insert Title Clip at the beginning of the video" option to the Screen Recorder
  • Now it is possible to capture multiple rectangular regions by holding down the Ctrl key
  • Improved the Print dialog box
  • Add page number, date and time to footers
  • Specify the number of copies to print
  • When printing a multi-page document, it will try to avoid breaking the bottom text line between two pages (i.e. text line is partially printed on the current page and the next page)
  • Added "Apply Edge Effects" option to the "Expand Canvas" tool
  • Added "Auto-reset to 1 upon a new day" option to file name template "$Y-$M-$D_#####"
  • Added "Color Subsampling" option for saving JPEG files
  • Improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • Improved compatibility with IE 8, FireFox 3 and Google Chrome
  • Some other improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.3 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Records screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files (Windows Media Video format).
  • Captures web pages of the latest web browsers: Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2), Firefox 3, Google Chrome (Beta)
  • Allows you to save a local copy when sending captured images to a Web (FTP) server

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.2 (May 7, 2008)

  • Some UI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 6.1 (Apr 21, 2008)

  • Now it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
  • Annotation objects (texts, lines, boxes etc.) can be re-edited by re-opening the Draw tool
  • Added auto-expand feature to text objects as you type in them
  • Maintain aspect ratio when resizing watermark images in Draw tool
  • Added "Preview in Editor" as an output option, which allows you to edit the captured image before sending it to the specified destination such as clipboard, printer, email etc.
  • Improved "Capture Scrolling Window". Now it supports Internet Explorer 8 Beta
  • Improved Print dialog
  • Added option "Ask me to save changes before closing" to the Editor tab of the Settings
  • Some UI improvements and bug fixes

New in Portable FastStone Capture 5.5 (May 23, 2007)

  • Added option "Negative" to the Screen Magnifier, which allows users with low vision to see a magnified color-reversed screen
  • In the Screen Magnifier, now it is possible to pan around the magnified screen with arrow keys
  • Added "Reset Capture Panel Position" to the right-click menu of the system tray icon

New in Portable FastStone Capture 4.8 (Dec 18, 2006)

  • Improved the Draw tool
  • Now it is possible to input double-byte characters such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian in the Draw tool