SavePictureAs Changelog

What's new in SavePictureAs 11.0

Nov 1, 2017
  • Now supports Microsoft Edge

New in SavePictureAs 10.9 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Made "Place SavePictureAs Shortcut on Desktop" and "Start SavePictureAs with Windows" defaults to "On"
  • Fixed Minor display issues
  • Fixed a bug while selecting a folder using Configure Hotkeys & Folders dialog

New in SavePictureAs 10.8 (Aug 3, 2016)

  • Added ability to choose a hotkey to Disable/Enable All Hotkeys to the Configure Hotkeys & Folders configuration screen
  • Added ability to the Additional Settings Menu to change the temp folder that Save Picture As downloads the image to prior to renaming and moving based on users settings.

New in SavePictureAs 10.7 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • Added Installer and Portable Options. Installer Option puts SavePictureAs in the
  • Control Panel under Add Remove Programs and on the Start Menu.
  • The Portable Version does not install anything. It runs from the folder SavePictureAs resides in.
  • User will be prompted for "Installer" or "Portable" choice on first start up.
  • The portable version of SavePictureAs can not be located in a windows system folder.
  • Instead place SavePictureAs in MyDocuments or Desktop or any non system folder.
  • SavePictureAs now offers an option to change the "Saving Picture Mode". With all
  • supported browsers SavePictureAs can use "Copy Image URL",
  • "Copy Image Address", "Copy Image Location" or "Copy Shortcut" (depending on the browser) in the right click menu to save pictures.
  • If the URL is not available then SavePictureAs will use Save Image As, Save Image or
  • Save Picture As (depending on the browser) for that picture.
  • To choose this option and learn more select from the system tray icon, "Settings",
  • "Additional Settings" and look for "Saving Picture Mode" and look for "More Info" for the "Saving Picture Mode"
  • Added "Choose Hotkey Method" to the "Configure Favorite Folders & Hotkeys"
  • configuration screen. "Choose Hotkey Method" will allow users to select from 2 different methods of choosing hotkeys for their favorite folders.
  • The 2 methods are "Use Keyboard only Hotkeys" and "Use Keyboard & Mouse Hotkeys".
  • With the "Use Keyboard & Mouse Hotkeys" method, mouse hotkeys and multimedia keys
  • can be selected as hotkeys.
  • Added support for SlimJet, Coowon, SeaMonkey, Citrio, Flock, Crazy, AM, Deepnet
  • Explorer, Acoo, The World and Torch browsers.
  • Added "Place SavePictureAs Icon on the Desktop" to the additional settings menu.
  • Added Cancel to the Check for Updates notification window
  • Changed the design of the "Saving Picture" UserInput prompt when Custom Filename chosen is "UserInput1 and UserInput2" and "Use Above Options and Prompt For Filename" are chosen.
  • Added Remember Size and Position to the right click menu when saving a picture
  • using "Save Area of Screen"

New in SavePictureAs 10.6 (Jun 27, 2014)

  • Found an issue with displaying system tray icons with Windows 8

New in SavePictureAs 10.5 (Jun 27, 2014)

  • Found an issue with downloading updates via the "Check for Updates" tray menu option

New in SavePictureAs 10.4 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Found an issue with displaying the "Reset All Settings" icon

New in SavePictureAs 10.3 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Found an issue displaying menu icons on Windows 8.1.

New in SavePictureAs 10.2 (May 19, 2014)

  • Improved "Test Changes" process on the Program Colors settings page
  • Spaces before and after the "Prefix" and before and after the "Suffix" on the custom naming options are now allowed
  • Added Date & Time option which allows user defined "separator" characters between the Date and Time values
  • Example (The AND sign and spaces were added with this option): 20140404 && 080109.jpg
  • Added "Use above options and Prompt for filename" to the Custom Picture Name options
  • SavePictureAs will rename the picture to your choice then prompt you so you can change the new filename when saving a picture
  • Added Custom Filenaming Option -> [UserInput1] Date && Time [UserInput2] Original Filename (When saving a picture you will be prompted for UserInput)
  • Added support for the Slim Browser
  • Redesigned "Prompt For Picture" name prompt

New in SavePictureAs 10.1 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • Redesigned "Program Colors" configuration screen
  • Redesigned "Additional Settings Menu" to display properly on DPI
  • 96 and DPI 120
  • Fixed minor display bug when changing screen colors.

New in SavePictureAs 10.0 (Jan 18, 2014)

  • Added alternate method to check for updates by entering a url provided by tech support
  • Fixed "View Current" and "View Changes" to display the correct Date-Time format if Date-Time format was chosen to be part of the new filename.
  • This can be found by clicking on the System Tray icon, selecting Settings, Additional Settings, selecting "Custom Picture Name" then clicking on "Configure"

New in SavePictureAs 9.9 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Improved Automatic updates to include alternate update links

New in SavePictureAs 9.8 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Added ability to compare the MD5 Checksum value of the duplicate picture with the MD5 Checksum value of the original to identify if the duplicate picture is identical to the original.
  • If the duplicate picture is identical to the original then the duplicate will not be saved. This setting can be changed on the Additional Settings Menu.
  • Added "Please provide feedback" survey option
  • Found an issue with "Do not save duplicates" showing message that a duplicate was found and not saved even though "&Notify Me" was not checkmarked on the Additional Settings Window
  • Found filename to be incorrect on all the "&Notify Me" message boxes when a duplicate was found.
  • Found an issue when a duplicate filename is found and the duplicate is deleted then "Rename Last Saved Picture" was recording the deleted duplicate as the last saved picture.
  • When updating to the newest version the update process will verify the downloaded update using the MD5 cryptographic hash function.
  • Added FileNaming options (Date & Time-FileName.ext) and (Sequential Number-FileName.ext)

New in SavePictureAs 9.7 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Found issue with Don't Remind Me Until Next Update not saving the choice properly

New in SavePictureAs 9.6 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Found hotkeys not being turned back on when closing the Configure Hotkeys & Folders screen by clicking on the X

New in SavePictureAs 9.5 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Added End-User License Agreement (EULA)
  • Fixed spelling typos
  • Fixed missing Program Documentation icon when running SavePictureAs on Windows 8.0

New in SavePictureAs 9.4 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • Added CaptureAreaOfScreen, click on the system tray icon, then Settings and then Capture Area Settings to configure
  • Added CaptureActiveWindow
  • Added CaptureEntireScreen
  • Added Check For Updates Daily
  • Added Disable/Enable All Hotkeys to the system tray icon

New in SavePictureAs 8.2 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • How To Handle Duplicates:
  • "Ask What To Do" when duplicates are found displays both pictures with the following 4 options (Default):
  • Rename one or both
  • Delete one or both
  • Add Date & Time to one or both
  • Keep original filename for one picture and apply one of the above options for the other picture
  • Do not save duplicates with option to be notified when this happens
  • Always overwrite with option to be notified when this happens
  • Save duplicates by adding a Random Number to the filename with option to be notified when this happens
  • Save duplicates by adding the Date & Time with option to be notified when this happens
  • Filenaming Convention (automatically name saved picture to one of the following):
  • Date and Time (choose from 6 options on format of Date And Time)
  • Filename-Date and time
  • Sequencial Number
  • Filename-Sequencial Number
  • Random Number
  • Filename-Random Number
  • Original Filename (Default)
  • Option to add a prefix or suffix to any of the above
  • Start with windows option (Default off - Does not start with windows)
  • Place Confirmation Message at mouse position option (Default off - Confirmation Message is centered on screen)
  • Clear History on exit option (Default off)
  • Turn off recording of Last Saved Picture (Default off - records Last Saved Picture)
  • Delete record of the Last Saved Picture on exit and Delete now options (Default off - does not delete Last Saved Picture on exit)
  • The user can now define how many pictures to list in the History Menu (Default 30)
  • Added "Wait for Save Picture window timeout" option to improve reliability on slower computers. (Default 5 seconds)
  • Added View Log File, Clear Log File and Email Log File to Additional Settings Menu (Default - Logging turned off)
  • Added "More Info" for each of the above options on the Additional Settings Menu with detailed information on each
  • Increase the number of Favorite Folder and Hotkeys from 5 to 10.
  • Added "Special Folder" on the "Configure Hotkeys & Folders" menu (Click "HERE" on "Configure Hotkeys & Folders" screen for more information)
  • Fixed an issue with the Win Key not being saved as a modifier for hotkeys

New in SavePictureAs 7.0 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Changed the update process to be the same for SavePicturAs.ahk as it was for SavePictureAs.exe

New in SavePictureAs 6.9 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Added User-defined Dynamic Hotkeys for Save Picture As, Rename last saved picture and 5 Favorite Folder Toolbar buttons

New in SavePictureAs 6.8 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Changed SavePictureAs_Update.exe to SavePictureAs_Update.bat

New in SavePictureAs 6.7 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Change updates location from Autohotkey.net to Dropbox

New in SavePictureAs 6.6 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Found stray comma preventing Favorites Toolbar number 2 from saving users choice and used Floor(var) to fix a script calculated gui width with decimal places

New in SavePictureAs 6.5 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with decimals places in History Gui X,Y, W and H values & fixed Google Chrome class

New in SavePictureAs 6.3 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with Windows 7 and Firefox not being able to verify the image was successfully saved

New in SavePictureAs 6.2 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with Google Chrome not saving images in certains conditions

New in SavePictureAs 6.1 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Replaced Run As Admin with a User Account Control message

New in SavePictureAs 6.0 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed a problem with positioning the Confirmation Message Window

New in SavePictureAs 5.9 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with Firefox using different window classes across OS platforms

New in SavePictureAs 5.8 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Added Check For Updates and Prompt for New Picture Name. Added ability while checking for updates to View Changes of the newest version.

New in SavePictureAs 5.6 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Fixed minor bug if the folder chosen to save pictures to does not exist.

New in SavePictureAs 5.5 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Found issue with moving files using the History Menu. Minor display and bug fixes

New in SavePictureAs 5.2 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Removed msgboxes used for troubleshooting