SnipQuick

Every computer keyboard is fitted with a printscreen button with which to capture a fullscreen picture of the entire display and send it to clipboard. Editing with other tools can take time and patience though, but with the help of specialized applications like SnipQuick you benefit from a lot more features for both capturing and editing.

Once the application is installed you have the possibility to launch it directly. It usually stays hidden in the tray area even when used, but the configuration window shows up first so you can take a look over hotkey commands, edit them for more comfort, and decide whether or not to include a custom logo on pictures, and where.

You can pick a logo from the preset list of items, or load a different one under popular image file formats. Since this is a watermark technique, it would have been useful to also be able to directly insert text strings without having to do so for every image you capture.

There are two modes of operations here, and each mode comes with an option to include the chosen logo as well. On the one hand, you can take pictures of custom regions of the screen by dragging a box around. It can be adjusted in terms of size and location even after the first attempt. On the other hand, there’s the window capture mode which directly targets entire windows or elements, with cool highlighting of the spot.

Regardless of the method you choose the last step before the picture is saved is to edit it. A small set of drawing and writing tools become available to use on the spot. Saving can either mean to clipboard, or image formats like JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF. Sadly, there’s no option to skip editing and automatically save to file.

All things considered, SnipQuick is a neat enhancement to the default screenshot method. Even though there’s no auto-save option to a custom location, you are able to capture particular areas on screen, and edit them before copying or saving to file under popular image formats.