!Quick Screenshot Maker Reviewer's Comments
Our #4 screen capture pick is Quick ScreenShot Maker by EtruSoft Inc. This software makes it easy to capture desired screenshots and add useful special effects to them. But, an almost non-existent feature set and a limited capture capacity kept this competitor in the minor leagues.
Quick ScreenShot Maker is a fairly basic program and, once you've spent some time familiarizing yourself with its tools, it is rather easy to use. We docked this program's score in this area because it doesn't include a toolbar, which increases screen capture ease and convenience.
Feature Set:
Quick ScreenShot Maker doesn't have many additional features, although it does come with an image viewer. Beyond this, this program offers very little.
Ease of Installation:
Installation of Quick ScreenShot Maker was a snap.
Help/Support:
EtruSoft Inc. supports Quick ScreenShot Maker through a physical and an online manual, tips, FAQs, and a knowledge base. And, if you need to contact the manufacturer directly, there's both a support email address and telephone number.
Capture:
Although they aren't as convenient to get to as other programs, Quick ScreenShot Maker does offer some highly-effective capture methods. One of these methods is the scrolling screenshot capture, which automatically captures the entire document or webpage, instead of only what's displayed on your screen.
This program, however, does not offer the option of text capture, freehand capture, and you can't select individual images, texts, boxes, tables and so on.
Edit:
Quick ScreenShot Maker comes with many special effects that you can apply to your screen captures, like transformations (i.e. spins, twirls, lens views and so forth), color-based transitions and sound effects-adding a fun twist to slideshows, family pictures and electronic newsletters.
This software also allows you to insert arrows and text balloons onto your screen captures and comes with several editing tools, including crop, resize, mirror, rotate and so on.
Also a convenient resize button lets you resize your screenshot by pixels or percentages, which help reduce distortion, and a quick image importer that lets you import images from other sources into the program.
Quick ScreenShot Maker also features a freehand drawing tool, but we found it difficult to use and the program does not offer a batch converter tool.
Summary:
Quick ScreenShot Maker by EtruSoft Inc. is decent screen capture software, that's easy to use and comes with first class help support. But, it lacks too many additional features and screen capture methods to really compete against other screen capture products out there.
Also, for the same money you'd pay for this product, you can purchase the #1-ranked SnagIt, which can do everything this program can do, plus a whole lot more.
