Lightscreen

Since I have started this blog some of my longer posts have used screenshots to show the programs various features and functions. A good example of this would be when I covered Google Chrome when it first came out about a year ago. It was in beta at the time and there was lots of hype about this browser in the technology community and was able to find good screenshots of the program in action. But this is not always the case. Sometimes its required for you to create your own screenshots and a good tool to get this done is Lightscreen.

Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user’s preferences.

Main Features

• Can execute at Windows startup (hidden or displaying the main window).
• System tray icon for easy access.
• Five configurable actions, each with it’s own hotkey (screen, window, area, etc).
• Multiple image formats (PNG, JPEG, etc) and image quality selector.
• A notification when the screenshot is taken.
• Screenshot delay.

Now I know that this isn’t a program that everyone is going to use but is something that could be useful for some people. Let’s say you have a friend who is struggling with something on their computer and they come to you for help. What makes it even worse is that they live a long distance from where you do so you are unable to physically visit them. Well you can use this tool to take screenshots of you going through the steps on your computer then email them to your friend. Of course you would want to add captions to the pictures in your email but this would be a good use for Lightscreen.

There are other reason why you might use Lightscreen to take screenshots of your computer but this could be one of them. Hopefully in the near future I will give Lightscreen a test drive and most of my blog posts (especially the larger, more detailed ones) will have more pictures added allowing me to show more details. In the meantime if this sound like a useful program go ahead and give it a try and comment about what you use if for.

Download: Lightscreen