AeroShot : Capture active windows to autoresize, copy and save as PNG image files, make backgrounds opaque or transparent, and include the mouse pointer
AeroShot is a program designed to capture active windows and save images to file. It contains several approachable settings that can be tackled with ease.
Simple GUI and options
The interface is user-friendly, represented by a single window that holds all settings put at your disposal, giving you an overview of everything. The currently open windows are automatically identified at startup and listed in a drop-down menu, so you can pick any one of them to capture it.Before doing so, you can tinker with screenshot options when it comes to the save mode (save to disk or just copy to Clipboard), along with the destination directory.
Customize snapshot preferences
Moreover, you can resize the images to a fixed width and height, include the mouse cursor, as well as make the background opaque instead of transparent. In case of the opaque mode enabled, you can opt for a checkboard-styled background and set the checker size, or choose a solid color and select it.The captured window is brought up the screen when triggering the action, after which the new image is saved to the specified directory with the PNG format and named after the corresponding window. If you're grabbing multiple screenshots of the same window, the original files are not overwritten. Instead, the new filenames are numerically incremented.
No setup required, besides .NET Framework
As long as you have .NET Framework installed, you don't need to set up anything else. This means that you can save the downloaded .exe file to a custom directory on the disk or copy it to a USB flash drive, in order to seamlessly run AeroShot on any PC with Microsoft's platform installed. It doesn't create files on the disk without your knowledge, nor does it integrate new entries into the Windows registry.
Finally
Unfortunately, images are saved with the border transparency and this cannot be disabled. Otherwise, AeroShot offers simple and effective options for swiftly capturing active windows.
AeroShot runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
GPLv3
license
— the installer is 256 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Graphics Editing and Painting.
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