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UltraSnap has some of the finest effects. All the features and effects were specially selected to produce the best benefit for what you need. We use this tool for ourselves (images on this and all other mediachance pages)

We have two versions UltraSnap and UltraSnap PRO. The PRO version adds a full WYSIWYG editing mode with the ability of multiple-capture into one image and having multiple working projects.

Below are the features of standard and PRO version of UltraSnap.

The additional PRO version features are highlighted on a yellow background.

Stays in the Tray - until you need it. Press HotKey to Capture Region, Window or full screen. UltraSnap will apply all the effects and send the image to clipboard and/or disk.

Apply Filters to the screen capture - and you can have very sharp and clean looking capture, great for printing or web page. There is a lot of math involved to produce amazingly sharp images even after resizing. The saved images are small in size but still looking much better than regular capture.

Because all the filters are dynamic and the process is automatic each of the capture will have the same look. You just need to set it once.

UltraSnap effects are non-destructive - you can apply effect and you can take it back, everything in real-time, just set the options, if you don't like the result change it! No harm will be done to your image.
WYSIWYG - you can be sure that whatever you see in ultrasnap window will be in the clipboard.

Works like auto-clipboard - After UltraSnap process the effects it can send the captured image to clipboard, so now you can paste it in your multimedia application (MMB, Director) or image editing program (CompactDraw, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro) without the need to have intermediate file.
You can even take hundreds of snap shots and let UltraSnap to automatically save each snapshots to new file (BMP, PNG, JPG)

You can use Drag&Drop and drag the image from UltraSnap window to any other application or Windows Explorer or Drag & Drop images from Explorer to UltraSnap...

Drag & Drop is also the best way how to send resized images by E-mail without any need to save the capture to disk first. Just capture the screen and then Drag & Drop the image from UltraSnap to your E-mail Client, then send it! UltraSnap will take care of creating temporary image for your E-mail client and then delete it when it is not needed anymore.

Need an example? What about sending few images from your digital camera to your friends by e-mail? You don't want to send them the full 500 kB image file...
... Set the Auto Resize option to size you like (for example Maximum Width 640), set the Sharpen filter and now just Drag and Drop your image from Windows Explorer to UltraSnap and then drag and drop or paste the resized and perfectly sharp image from Ultrasnap to the E-mail Client. No need to save ... Oh and you can also add a text description which will be printed on the image!


 

Resize and Enhance Photos - Special processing of photos is included - change gamma, contrast, brightness, boost color, desaturate or stretch histogram levels. Even small picture could have a lot of sharp details and vibrant colors!

Image taken indoor with
Canon A5
Select Enhance Photos and Drag the image from the disk to the UltraSnap. The image will become significantly better, with corrected midtones and stretched levels with vivid colors.

Add various Accents - such as mouse cursors, motion trails, circles, logos etc... Just select the image from the menu and place it on the capture. The accents are not just simple flat looking images, but they can have drop shadows or 3D look. You can prepare your own Accents (your logo, some balloon texts etc...)
Your screen captures would never look boring - add some motion trail cursor and you will make image speaking for itself.

You can also add a simple text description under the image. You don't have to worry about the fonts or sizes. The image will always adjust for the text to fit. It is simple but very useful - send a picture with description. Or put figure description for your graphs...

PRO Version - You can add "Accents" in the Editing mode by simply dragging them from the Arrows and Object Palette. You can also move them, resize them or add different effects. You can also create your own accent and store them it in the Palette.

The text in the Capture mode is still there for a quick application, but in the Edit mode you can add text anywhere, move it, resize it, change color, add shadow...

Make it pixel-perfect - some times you need accurate capture. Use the Region Capture with the 3x Zoom (Whenever you do Region Capture just press the right mouse button or press Z key and the Zoom will appear)

With Region Capture you just draw a rectangular where you need with a mouse. For 100% accuracy you can also use keyboard. You can move your cursor pixel by pixel with the Arrow keys on your keyboard. Whenever you want to click just press Enter.

Window (Control) Capture - You will love this one for making software manuals. Window Capture doesn't only capture the whole window, but also any of the item or group of the items - with precise size. Just run Window Capture and as you move your cursor around the screen you will see the logical part under the cursor is highlighted. Like that you can capture menus, windows, buttons with its exact matching size.

Work as you want - You can assign your own hotkeys for each of the capture mode. When you close the UltraSnap it will minimize into the Tray where it waits for the hot-key. You can set the UltraSnap to restore its window after capture or you can leave it quiet, when the captured image will be just processed and send to clipboard without any window popping up.

Capture Text from Message bars - When you use "Window Capture" a text associated with the control you capture will be also shown in UltraSnap as a normal text which you can then copy and paste into text document.

This works for example for a text in any Message Box. Simply use menu Capture - Window and then position the capture rectangle over the text on the popup Message Box.

Ultrasnap will along the bitmap show also the text in a small text box.

See animation explaining this feature.

Add Highlight Rectangle - you can easy draw cool looking rectangle on your capture even with 3D drop shadow. Excellent for calling attention to a portion of picture. (Available in full Standard version only, for PRO see below)

PRO Version - You can of course add rectangle frames in Edit mode with the Frame tool. You can add ellipses, circles or whatever other shape with the shape tool. You can change color, add bevel and shadow. Same as with other objects in Edit mode you can easy resize or move these.

One cool feature in PRO is also the Magnifier object. Simply place it over an image and you get magnification of that area. This is great for example if you want to show where is a particular control placed within a larger context, but you don't want to include a large image.

Preview of saved files - Now if you save the capture, use auto save feature or drag the capture from the full version* of UltraSnap the new vertical Preview pane will show a thumbnail with the file name of the capture.
This can help you with the file organization since you will see what captures you already saved or dragged out.

For even better flexibility you can drag files also from the thumbnail preview either out of the UltraSnap or back to UltraSnap edit window.

The preview thumbnails will be kept until you exit the UltraSnap (or on windows shut down)

PRO Version - The PRO version has more advanced History view that works similar way, but unlike in the standard version the PRO keeps the history even after computer restart.

It allows you to also delete the files from disk (for example to remove saved captures that will be not finally used)

We even included our famous plugins DCEnhancer and BWorks, now you can process images directly from within UltraSnap. DCEnhancer is great for improving muddy photos and BWorks is cool for creating artisitic Black & White images.
Capture Cursors -With full version* you can also capture directly the mouse cursor. Unlike many other screen capture programs that show just an arrow cursor, UltraSnap will add to the capture the exact cursor you see in the application.

But that's not enough. You don't have to go for a plain cursors. You can add an optional eye catcher such as drop shadow to the cursor (and this works also on Win95/98) or even add a red glow to draw attention to the cursor.

*Added in ver 1.8

Printing - The new full version has improved printing support where you can also choose the size of output on paper.
PRO Version - The PRO version can use multiple projects at the same time. Just create as many empty new projects as you need then set each settings differently. Depending into which project you capture - these settings will apply.
WYSIWYG editor in PRO Version.
Here is where the fun really starts. You can resize or rotate the objects. You can add various annotations, text, arrows, cursors, drop shadow, bevel or other effects.

While in editing mode you can continue to add screen captures to create a composite image combining various screen captures.

You can use the editor even as a scratch pad to create various good looking titles for web pages, blogs etc. The editor uses multiple anti-aliasing to produce smooth text and lines for perfect screen output.

You have also advanced export in the PRO version that allows you to export files to BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF with a great control about sampling, color reduction, dithering or transparency.

Multi-Monitor Support - The new full version will works on multiple monitors as well. It will simply capture the image from the monitor in which is the cursor.

It is just a Snap to use it ! And it saves your time - for most of the work you do.


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