
By using uvScreenCamera you can easily create animated demos or tutorials by recording your computer's desktop activity, including all mouse movements, window graphics, mouse clicks, etc.
The recorded clips are stored into UVF, EXE, SWF or AVI movie files, streaming just 20 to 400 KB per minute. As an option, you can annotate recorded movies with text.
uvScreenCamera animated tutorials are the most visual way of presenting your software, training your staff, and supporting your customers.
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Everyone needs to record something on his screen someday: this can be footage of a game, a PowerPoint presentation converted to video, or just a tutorial on how you can use some specific program.
Many programs can record videos from the screen but most of them are paid and very often not complete and sometimes buggy.
CamStudio aims to help you record videos from your screen with a number of options: you can select a format from a list and if you can't find the format you want, download the codec on Internet so that you could use it in CamStudio. You can record your screen videos in different ways: record the whole screen, record a fixed region, or record a region that you can move during the recording.
If you would like the user to easily see your cursor or don't see it at all then click on "Options" and then on "Cursor Options...". In the new window that appears, you can decide whether you want the cursor to be displayed or not, if you want to highlight it with a colored shape, and you can even change the cursor with a custom image of your choice.
Bottom line: this software is a great and free screen recorder. If you are looking to record your screen then try this software, you'll probably be satisfied with it.
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SplitCam is a program that allows you to add cool effects to your webcam videos. This program can take video from your webcam, an image or video file, or your computer´s desktop.
The specified video source can then be used in any instant messaging application you use, e.g. Windows Live Messenger: you can transmit the video from this program by selecting the SplitCam source in your messenger. This way, you can use all the video effects that the program can add to your video, not only the raw images that it takes. The program gives access to your webcam, so you can edit its configuration, as well as take snapshots from the video and save them to disk.
This program allows to select the frames per second that you will use for your image. You can apply several filters to the image that the program sends, like flip it horizontally or vertically, deinterlace the image, change it to black and white, or use several types of contours and gradients. You can also pick different backgrounds from several images included in the program, apply frames, use face items and avatars, and add text or time to the image you are sending.
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PicPick is an all-in-one program that provides a full-featured screen capture tool, an intuitive image editor, a color picker, a color palette, a pixel-ruler, a protractor, a crosshair and even a whiteboard.
With this tool you can take screenshots of the entire screen, an active window, specific region of the screen, free hand, scrolling window.PicPick is a full-featured image editing and graphic design program with many tools for editing, resizing, capturing screen shots, and more.
The Screen Capture tool has many useful options. You can choose the default file format for the image (PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF), and the action to take when printing the screen. You can choose to open the captured image with the Image Editor, save it directly to a file, send it to the clipboard or to an MS Office application, e-mail it, or upload it to your Facebook or Twitter account, to an FTP server, or to an image hosting service.
The Image Editor is very easy to use. Its menus resemble those found in MS Office applications with the image editing menu active. You have five groups of features for edition: Clipboard, View, Image, Tool, and Colors. With them you can resize, add effects and shapes, paint, zoom, and more.
It packs some other useful tools: A color picker to select any color of the screen, a palette to pick a color from it or to enter the RGB or hue and saturation values, a magnifier, a protractor, a crosshair and a whiteboard to paint directly in your screen.
As a screen capture program it is perfect with its tools and features. As a matter of fact, it has become my favorite for these tasks. As an image editor, it is also a good choice for basic image manipulation. Of course, it doesn't have the features of some graphic design suits, but it has a great functionality compared to other similar programs.
PicPick is provided as a freeware program for personal use, but you can buy a license for commercial use.
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QIP Shot is a multi-purpose application for Windows. It allows you to capture snapshots of your screen and upload them to the QIP Shot servers. It also allows you to upload any Images from your computer to their servers and retrieve it later.
The screen-capturing part of the application is perhaps the most complete one. QIP Shot can capture the whole desktop, an area of it, or any active window. It can also capture video, so it doubles as a screencasting application.
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FastStone Image Viewer is not only an image viewer, as its title might make you think. It’s also an editor, resizer, converter, manager, in other words, a very comprehensive and feature-rich tool that helps you perform a large amount of activities and tasks regarding your images.
FastStone Image Viewer is also capable of impressing and standing apart from the many other image processing tools out there by the large number of image file formats that it supports. From popular ones like BMP, JPEG, PNG or GIF to lesser known ones and even to raw images, FastStone Image Viewer can handle tens of formats without requiring plug-ins or any other external software.
Considering it’s a free utility, the amount of additional features and functions that FastStone Image Viewer supports is truly surprising. For example, this handy tool can also remove the red-eye effect from photos, adjust their colors, crop and retouch pictures, create contact sheets or slideshows with a large variety of transition effects, allow viewing and manipulating EXIF metadata, applying effects and filters to the images, and many other more. Thoroughly talking about all the features, options and tools that this program contains will take tens of pages. The important part is that this tool can truly do a lot of things.
Furthermore, despite being so comprehensive, FastStone Image Viewer is also easy-to-use. It can be used as a simple image browser and viewer if needed without any problem.
To sum it all up, there’s no reason to hesitate getting this tool if you ever need a free yet complex and powerful image management and processing solution. I also recommend it with all my heart.
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DuckCapture comes with four capture modes that make screen capture easy! Capture a window on your screen, region of your screen, or the contents of a tall web page that scrolls. Moreover, you can change your captured area or add more areas to one image. DuckCapture allows you to add annotations and informative text by marking the area.
When finished, you can save to file, copy to clipboard or print out directly. Functionality of DuckCapture can also be extended by scripts, e.g. using email or FTP to upload or send to a specific position.
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