LightShot – Capture screenshot and upload online
LightShot is screen capture tool for Windows that works very much like the Snipping tool in Windows Vista and 7, with the added advantage of automatically uploading it online for sharing or editing.
LightShot replaces the default PrtScr key of the keyboard to launch the shooting tool. This is similar to the Snipping tool of Windows as already mentioned. Click and drag the mouse cursor to select the region you want to take a screenshot of. The dimension of the selected region is displayed at the top of the selection, which is very helpful for bloggers who require screenshots to be within a specific dimension. This reminds me of Greenshot, which had this same feature.
Once the region is selected an array of buttons appear at the bottom which gives access to various options like copy to keyboard, save as an image file to hard disk, upload to Imageshacks and edit online on Pixlr.
LightShot also supports a handful of shortcuts. The best thing is the program uses the same default shortcut Windows uses for such operation like Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+S to save and so on.
LightShot is very basic and I don’t suppose it can be compared with other screen capture programs with inbuilt image editors and all kinds of advanced screen capturing options. It does support online image editing, but I prefer a desktop image editor. But LightShot is a very good replacement for the Snipping Tool – works exactly the same along with a bunch of added features.
Update: The software does some sneaky things to your computer that you might not like. Details here
its very cunning software program.
it has installer that cant be unpacked by the latest versions of 7zip and some other uncompressors including special ones.
during installation it asks many various questions but not installation path. and it doesnt ask about new system startup item but adds it:
"%userprofile%\local settings\Application Data\Skillbrains\lightshot\LightShot.exe Flags: uninsdeletevalue"
by the way it puts one more LightShot.exe file in program subdirectory that has different size.
very well, it consumes about 3mb memory and its kind feature. but i cant remove this actually useless system tray icon! no option... maybe these are special startup flags to disable it, arent they?
i was suprized that actually i installed two programs! not one but two, i mean not web application but this one
"%programfiles%\Skillbrains\Updater\Updater.exe"
this Updater has the similar program folder structure and one more Updater.exe file in subdirectory... and one more executable here! i'm not joking, seriously - Notifier.exe :(
SkillBrains LightShot uninstaller doesnt remove some skill bones, they are in %programfiles% - two updaters and notifier.
also it uses internet connection to work with one web application... and several hidden ones?
fast and smart alternative: http://picpick.wiziple.net
You are right. I too noticed an updater trying to access the Internet but my firewall caught it.
Hey everyone,
I am Andrej from skillbrains.com, let me clarify some things about our auto update feature.
Our software packages are goes with our updater module. Updater will be installed separately and only in one instance for all our products installed. For instance:
- You are installing LightShotIE as first product
- Installer will looks for updater module installed and install it.
- Next you are installing LightShot Desktop, it looks for updater module and registering in.
So you will have two products and one updater. Updater will be removed from your system with last product. And you can also remove it manually.
What if you don’t want your software to be updated? That’s simple you should open your windows “Programs and Features” wizard (http://prntscr.com/28nk) either via “Control Panel” or running “appwiz.cpl” from command line. Look for “updater-1.3.0.10” there and uninstall it. That’s all. You are clean from now.
But please consider that auto updating is great way to keep your software fresh. We are rapidly adding new features our users asks as for and pushing them to users via update system.
Our updater is running via Windows Scheduler and do not consume process time or system memory all the time like other such systems, so it will not make your box even a bit slower.
As we can see these concerns from our users we will cover the updater topic with a post in our blog soon. I will post directly link to post here after publishing.
Please visit our blog http://blog.skillbrains.com and facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/LightShot/242750885760
Andrej
Hi, here the post is
http://skillbrains.blogspot.com/2010/01/skillbrains-deploying-system.html
please tell us how we can make our software betrer for you in comments.