Smart Shot

Smart Shot is an intuitive and approachable piece of software that enables you to easily take snapshots, make some adjustments, and save the images to file with the .png, .bmp, .jpeg, .giff or .tiff format.

After a fast and uneventful setup procedure, Smart Shot creates an icon in the systray area when it's launched, and shows a notification message with two hotkeys for capturing the entire screen or just the active window.

Once an image is grabbed, the app loads it in the main app window and puts some basic drawing tools at your disposal. Thus, you can draw lines with a preferred color and thickness, fill color and adjust the transparency level, add text and customize font settings, as well as insert arrows, ellipses or rectangles.

The image can be copied to the Clipboard or saved to file by indicating the preferred output directory, file name and extension. There are no other notable options provided by this piece of kit. For instance, it doesn't implement options for capturing a custom-sized region or for reconfiguring the keyboard shortcuts.

As we expected, the program consumed low CPU and RAM during runtime, so it didn't hamper the overall performance of the computer. No error dialogs, and it didn't freeze or crash.

To sum it up, Smart Shot offers a simple and effective method to capturing the active window or entire screen, making some simple edits, and saving the images to file. Advanced users should look for something more feature-rich, though.