Take screenshots or capture just a window or a specific region from your screen. Save the output in a variety of formats including JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc. Crop, resize or annotate the captured images.
HyperSnap is intended to capture screenshots. Moreover, this tool supports various editing features that let you modify, correct and annotate the source image once it has been captured. In addition, thanks to its support of multiple image formats, it can be used to convert between them. The application may be not as easy to use as other similar tools; however, this is fully compensated with the availability of features. It is good news that, besides using the standard GUI buttons and commands, you can also use mouse buttons, hotkeys and even voice commands to control it. Unfortunately, its accompanying manual fails to open properly in Windows 10, but you can always take a detour and open it with another CHM-compatible application.
One of its most distinctive characteristics is that it probably supports more types of captures than any other product on the market. In this respect, I am glad to say that, besides capturing a window, a region or the complete screen, this utility can also grab a scrolling region, a virtual desktop and even several regions in a single shot. It is important to point out that the results of capturing a scrolling region or page are very accurate, considering that other tools may produce distorted results. Luckily, you do not even need to grab the selected part of the screen as it is, as you can set the ratio and the size of the output image. Moreover, HyperSnap can import images as files or directly from a scanner. However, it would have been nice if this program also supported taking a video from your screen, which is already possible in other tools.
It is highly convenient that the application lets you access all the shots you have been taking during a session very quickly because they remain available from a sidebar in which they appear as thumbnails. This feature is combined with an easy-to-use editor that permits making annotations, rotating, scaling, resizing and many other operations with the files. Likewise, you can apply such effects as shear, mosaic, emboss, sharp, blur, shadow and frame. Once you are done with the whole process, you can share the images in most popular formats or upload them to an FTP server. Nevertheless, it seems that storing them on the cloud is not possible.
In a nutshell, HyperSnap may be perfect for those users who are engaged in creating manuals, tutorials, product presentations, webpages and even software reviews. If you are interested in this product, you should know that it has a reasonable price and its trial version is available for several days without any feature restriction.
v7.09.0 [Apr 9, 2011]
- New user interface, using Ribbon instead of menu and toolbars. However you can still switch to the old menu/toolbars interface if you want. We recommend that you give try to the new UI though, as some features are not available or more difficult to access with the old interface.
- Big enhancements to HyperSnap drawing editor - all shapes drawn are now kept as separate objects. You may select them at any time, move, modify, delete. You may also imprint them permanently on the image at any time.
- New shapes in drawing editor - different types of callouts, arc, opened and closed polylines. When needed, you may switch to "draw directly on image" mode. This could be useful e.g. to edit small icons, where each pixel counts, while for bigger images we recommend the new shape drawing mode.
- New native HyperSnap file format .dhs - preserves the drawn shapes as separate objects for later editing.
- Support for opacity (alpha channel) - any part of an image can be made completely or partially transparent.
- A much enhanced color picker on the Ribbon "Edit" tab - select colors from standard palette, define up to 8 user colors, switch between using the foreground/line color or background/fill color, pick color form anywhere on the screen, set RGB or HSL color codes with sliders or by typing values, displays and offers a quick copy of HTML color code like #E6C01A, "pin" colors to use the same colors in all editied images or have separate selections for each image and more.
- Optional thumbnail list showing small previews of all images captured or opened in HyperSnap window. Click on thumbnails to switch the big window to that image. Select multiple images in Thumbnails View window, then right click to apply group operations on selected images, e.g. resize them, print, save to one multi-page file (TIFF or PDF) or to separate image files in one operation.
- Save images to PDF files. Can also open PDF files created with HyperSnap 7, but not other PDFs.
- Region capture enhancements - select unrestrained or pre-defined aspect ratio of captured region (e.g. 4:3, 16:9 or user defined), select a pre-defined fixed size of captured region, e.g. 640x480 pixels, and move it around the screen.
- Support for FireFox 4 and newer with FireFox add-on to capture entire pages etc.
- Many more smaller enhancements.
