Screenshot

Introduction

Nexus Screenshot makes the task of capturing screenshot images suitable for the web easy and simple.

Running Screenshot

After double clicking the desktop icon you should see the following icon appear in the system tray:

Screenshot will run and respond to pressing the snapshot key on your keyboard. By default this key is F6. You can shutdown Screenshot by right clicking on the icon and choose Close

Capturing screens

Press F6 or Print Screen on your keyboard to capture a screen. You can also capture an image in Internet Explorer or Firefox by right clicking the image and choosing Copy Image.
Captured images will be stored for you in a list. Click the icon in the system tray to see this list.

Thumbnails

As screenshots are captured they are represented as thumbnail in the software. You can do the following with thumbnails:

Preview them by double clicking or pressing Enter
Delete them by pressing Del on your keyboard
Copy the file to the desktop (Right click, choose "Copy to Desktop" or press Ctrl + D)
Copy the file to another location (Right click, choose "Copy to...")
Open the file in the default viewer (Right click, choose "Open")

Previewing Images

When previewing images you are given the option to manipulate as well. You can:

Crop

Click the crop button on the toolbar
Drag the black rectangle to where you want to crop
Resize the rectange to the size you want to keep
Click the Apply button to crop the image

Highlight

Click the Highlight button on the toolbar
Drag the black rectangle to where you want to highlight
Resize the rectange to the size you want to keep
Click the Apply button to highlight the area. The surrounding area will be displayed faded out to white.

Preferences

Image Format - The default of "auto detect" will check the file size of a resulting gif, png or jpeg file and choose the smallest one. If you require optimum image quality you may want to choose jpeg for photos or png full color for screenshots containing all shading.
Dither Images - If a Gif image type is chosen or autoselected then the image will be dithered to improve the quality. This option increases file sizes but will make images with color gradients appear smoother.
Resize if - This option will smoothly resize the image if it is larger than a certain width in pixels. This is especially useful if you are trying to fit screenshots to a particular format for a web site.
Snapshot key - This is the key on the keyboard that you must press to capture a screen. You can also capture a screen by pressing the PrintScreen key.
On snapshot save name - This option can either be by window title or random number. The window title option will try to capture a filename based on the name of the window you are trying to capture.
Display snapshot editor - Whether the image will preview as soon as you capture an image
Display notification - Whether a notification will appear in the system tray when an image is captured. Note that you will alway get the icon changing when a capture occurs.