FullShot 9.0 – A Review

Full shot is a shot that shows the human figure from head to feet, with some part of the body to give context.- Wikipedia

FullShot is a comprehensive screen capture tool, designed for Windows users, which does justice to its name by more than one count.While the market is flooded with screen capture softwares, and even some image processing biggies provide screen capture utility e.g. Paint Shop Pro, FullShot comes with a huge array of image capture capabilities which mark it clearly as the pick of the lot.

The Standard version of this application provides Full Screen Capture, Window Capture, Region Capture, and Object Capture. But what steals the show away is the nifty Title & Menu Capture and Freehand Capture features of FullShot. Using the Title & Menu Capture feature, only the Menu bar along with its drop downs may be captured without having to worry about the background. Freehand Capture goes a step ahead and lets the user define his own capture area of any shape or size!

Very often capturing long images like that of web pages is quite a pain, because they extend to more than one screen view. The only available option is to take shots in bits and then join the images using some Image Processing software like PhotoShop.

The Document Capture utility of FullShot makes such efforts a thing of the past, all you have to do is indicate which document/window to capture, and the automatic process will take over. The screen will scroll on its own as FullShot takes consecutive images and provide a real ‘FullShot’ of the image, no matter how long vertically or horizontally the image is.
Besides this, special effects may be used to capture images such as Drop Shadow, Tear, Stroke and Glare.

FullShot allows nine different ways of capturing images, including the ability to capture images from multiple monitors!

After capturing an image, further annotations may be added to it using the various options provided right there in the FullShot application, thus eliminating the need to use any other software for enhancing the images.

While taking a print of the images, FullShot not only allows you to add Headers and Footers, but also to add your own Notes to the image. Printing multiple images on a single page is also possible.

Among the other image utilities, FullShot provides a Thumbnail Viewer to view all images in a folder and an Image Explorer, which scans a drive for images of different formats. In total FullShot supports 19 different image formats. An image may be converted from one format to any other with the click of a button. The 'Batch Con' feature allows you to convert images in batches.
But what if you are not sure about which format is best suited for your document? FullShot's answer for this is the unique 'File size comparison' feature, which gives the size of the image in various formats.

The Enterprise edition of FullShot comes with a proprietary Image Database, which can be local or even on a remote server!!

For every new image record, apart from a Title, Subject and Description, Keywords may be associated with each Image. These Keywords are stored in a separate Master Keyword Table, and may be used to search the database.

The Enterprise edition also provides the facility of emails, with a proprietary Contact Database. Any image in the database may be sent to any or all the contacts without having to even checkout the image!

Exporting images as a Flash file is also possible in the Enterprise Edition.

So when you have tried all other ways to take just the right shot for your manual, then give FullShot a try, taking snapshots was never so much fun before!