QuickScreenShots Portable

Made as the portable counterpart of QuickScreenShots, this is a straightforward software application that gives you the possibility to seamlessly take screenshots and apply various image effects. It offers support for PNG format only.

You can drop the program files anywhere on the disk or on a removable storage unit to easily launch QuickScreenShots on any computer. Just keep in mind that .NET Framework must be installed in order for the tool to work. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings, unlike most installers.

At startup, the utility creates an icon in the taskbar notifications area for quick access. You can open its right-click menu or trigger hotkeys to capture the full screen, selected region, active window, or current video game you're playing.

The images are automatically saved to file. You can modify the default directory and base file name, or set the app to prompt you for these details at each captured snapshot. You can change the keyboard shortcuts assigned to each capture mode.

Regarding image effects, it's possible to apply shadow and adjust its color, blur radius, offset and background color. You can draw lines, rectangles, ellipses, arrows and text, or make the image black and white.

As far as general settings are concerned, you can ask the app to run at every Windows startup until further notice, start minimized, automatically copy the taken snapshot to the Clipboard, include or exclude the mouse cursor, enable sound alerts, hide messages in the notification area, and specify a screenshot delay.

No error dialogs were shown in our tests, and the software application didn't hang or crash. It left a small footprint on system performance, using low CPU and memory. Too bad it doesn't offer support for additional file types, apart from PNG.

Thanks to its advanced, yet approachable configuration settings, QuickScreenShots can be easily figured out by all types of users who want to quickly capture the screen without worrying about complex parameters.