Screen Sharp Shooter

If you want to build a tutorial, or guide to exemplify some computer activity, it’s best to also provide visual support, animated or not. One method is to take screenshots of important steps, and if you want this operation to be more efficient, then Screen Sharp Shooter might just be what you need.

The application can be launched right after the download process is finished. As such, there’s the possibility to take it with you on a thumb drive, and use on other computers as well. You don’t even have to worry about affecting the integrity of the target PC, because registries don’t need to be modified for things to work out.

With the main window up, you can take a few seconds to take a look over the set of features. Capture methods allow you to either grab activity on the entire screen, or simply select a rectangular area. Apart from pictures, the application can also record video, which are automatically saved to file.

During capture sessions, the application’s main window gets minimized so it doesn’t get in the way. Finishing brings it back up, with a preview of the grabbed pictures. Videos need to be analyzed with other programs, because there aren’t any playback controls. The application also puts a few color options at your disposal so you can fine tune color depths, or just use inverted colors.

Unfortunately, the only hotkey support is to stop a video recording, and you need to use built-in triggers for normal screenshots. More importantly, you need to take the time to save each image to file, because of the lack of an auto-save option, which would have come in handy.

Bottom line is that Screen Sharp Shooter is a practical enhancement to default methods of taking screenshots. Although you can’t configure hotkeys for the general process, or have pictures saved automatically, it’s packed with options to grab custom areas, as well as record a video, making the application worth a try overall.