I'm pretty sure these people that say "Print Screen and Paint" are joking or they rarely do screen captures. If you need to do several windows screenshots, for documentations, tutorials or whatever, there is no way to do it harder than using printscreen+paint. I can't imagine capture a screen, paste it to paint, then crop the image, draw arrows, ciircles, insert text comments, blur sensitive areas of text, with one of the poorest image editors available. After test almost all tools available, I've found Greenshot and ShareX the best ones. My criteria is it must be freeware, light on resources, and easy to use, with integrated image editor. After properly configured, ShareX is very close to what I looking for.
My favorite Screenshot Tool is FastStone Capture, it has a small interface but a lot of options. Especially the screen recorder tool is easy to use and great ... Attached Image: Interface of FastStone Capture From the Info: FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand/fixed regions as well as scrolling windows/web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. FastStone Capture saves images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats. Built-in screen recorder saves videos in WMV (Windows Media Video) format.
Yes Faststone capture is the best. I've come across situations when Snagit could not capture correctly but Faststone could. Plus faststone is really lightweight.
Just only one big CON: Faststone Capture is Payware! No doubt, it's an great apps, I didn't deny that! Just to pay 20 bucks for an Screen Capture apps, is simply not worth the money. Beside of that, like many others of this tools, it didn't offers free online space for to keep captured content! That's the Main Reason I use PostImage. Further more, the other tool I use: ScreenShotCapture in conjunction with EasyScreenRecorder, I got even more than Faststone could provide me. And an Lifetime License for ALL products on Donationcoder.com has cost me just 5 Bucks and that's what count's for me! No offence in any means, it's just my personal way and likes and I don't like to use any pirated apps for other reason than just for to test out it's worth to buy or not!
Agree with Pisthai. Lots of freeware capture tools have almost the same features of the payed ones, if not more. As sidenote, ShareX can upload to a bunch of services, like imgur, imageshark, tinypic, flickr, dropbox, onedrive, mega, to name a few. My only complain is ShareX have way too much functionality, latest versions can even do video capture.
Thanks for telling me about ShareX, I always wanted a tool that can upload the screen capture on the fly and FastStone Capture is missing this vital feature