ShootingScreen

ShootingScreen is a small software application whose purpose is to help you automatically take screenshots of a user-defined desktop region with ease. The tool is available for download on Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

This is a portable utility. You can store it on USB flash drives or other portable devices to have it with you all the time. You may run it without administrative privileges.

Gaining access to its features requires only opening the executable file because there’s no setup included in the process. It does not write entries to your Windows registry and leave other configuration files on the target PC. It actually saves the settings data on the storage device.

ShootingScreen reveals a simple design that incorporates all configuration parameters into a single layout. You cannot appeal to a help manual for viewing detailed information about the app’s features but you can decode the settings on your own because they look easy to work with.

The application gives you the possibility to manually select the area that you want to capture and pick the saving directory.

What’s more, you are allowed to specify the number of screenshots that you want to capture, set up file naming rules, and select the output file format (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG). You can preview how the filenames look like directly in the main window before activating the automatic screenshot mode.

Other important configuration parameters worth being mentioned enable you to take snapshots automatically at a custom time interval in seconds, play sound notifications after each capture, as well as start or stop the capture mode.

Tests have pointed out that ShootingScreen carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so you do not have to worry that it hampers the overall performance of your computer.

ShootingScreen comes packed with basic features for helping you take screenshots on the fly, and is suitable especially for less experienced users. Professionals may be disappointed by the poor support for advanced features. You cannot capture the entire activity of the screen and an application/window, make use of hotkeys, and embed text/image watermarks, just to name a few suggestions.