Zcreenshot

Needless to say that every keyboard is fitted with a button which captures everything on screen in the form of a picture which is sent to the clipboard. What’s more, you can enhance this capability, because it can become a time-consuming process to capture and save pictures through the default function alone, and a suitable example in this regard is Zcreenshot.

You first need to go through the steps of an installer to deploy the application on your computer. Don’t worry if nothing shows up on launch, because it quietly sits in the tray area during runtime. Interacting with the icon provides access to the settings panel, as well as the function to take a screenshot.

Notice that the cursor changes its shape whenever you trigger the screenshot function, allowing you to easily drag a box over the area of interest. Once the left mouse button is released, the picture is automatically saved to a specific folder. Sadly, this directory can’t be changed, but you can easily have it brought up from the tray menu.

Down in the settings panel, there are two sections which allow you to manage general behavior, as well as visual options. You can choose to have the new screenshot saved either as JPG or BMP, show the program icon in the tray area, make it run with Windows, and define the hotkey command used to trigger the function.

As far as visual preferences are concerned, it helps you better define the visual area when selecting the capture region. It’s possible to configure the box color, as well as the border, and there’s a preview section which updates in real-time. You can also set the transparency level for the capture box.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Zcreenshot comes as an extension to the default method of capturing screen activity. Although you always need to define the capture area, pictures are automatically saved, thus making the overall process efficient.