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Screenshots are useful for blog posts or in your business to send as email attachments.

FastStone Capture is the best and easiest way to take screenshots. Not only can you easily take screenshots of ANYTHING on your computer monitor, you can resize the image at the same time. There are alot of other features like draw, highlight, and watermark, but the basics will take you a long way. So here are the basics.

1. Download FastStone Capture and save it to your desktop.

Here’s the icon on my desktop.

After you start your computer, click the icon and the tool appears on your screen for use at any time. You can move it around the screen as you like. Here’s what the tool looks like floating on your screen, regardless of what page you’re on. I love this feature because you don’t have to call up the tool when you need to take a screenshot.

2. Take a screenshot in any of these ways:

• Capture your entire viewable computer screen
• Crop a rectangular region of your choice (best)
• Capture the full screen page as it scrolls
• Capture a portion you draw freehand

Here’s how to do each:

A. Capture the entire screen you see. Click either of the icons circled below. One will capture the address bar:

B. Crop: Capture only a rectangular portion of anything you see on the screen. This is the MOST USEFUL screenshot device. I use it all the time.To take a screenshot of only a portion of a page, use the cropping tool, circled in red below:

Just click it and a red criss-cross appears. Hold down the left-click (for Windows), put the intersecting red lines over the page and pull it with your cursor over the area to shoot. Release the left-click and it snaps a picture. Save it to your desktop or wherever you like to save images.

Here’s an example of a cropped screenshot from the blog:

C. Scrolled Full Page Screenshot.

Here’s a really cool feature. It’s the scrolled screenshot. Click the arrow icon (circled below), place your cursor on the corner of the page below your toolbar and click it. The whole page will scroll and a snapshot will be taken:

D. Freehand Screenshot.

Take a freehand screenshot by clicking the star icon below. Just hold down your left-click and draw the area. Don’t forget to end where you began. Release and a screenshot of your freehand cut-out appears.

Here’s an example of a freehand screenshot:

After taking your screenshot you can choose to resize the image before you save it. Save the screenshot wherever you like. (I like to save to my desktop & file later).

Well, that’s the basics on FastStone Capture. Go get it and see for yourself how easy it is to use. FastStone Capture works for most browsers.