Huddled Masses

I wrote about why I wrote my own screenshot app called ShotGlass, here’s what it does:

ShotGlass takes screenshots!

• Crops screenshots!
  • Optionally, it crops the screenshot to the ShotGlass Window.
  • Optionally creates thumbnails
    • When taking a “cropped” shot of just the area covered by the ShotGlass window, the thumnail is created from a positionable sub-window.
• When taking an uncropped screenshot of the full screen, uses the main window as the thumbnail cropper.

• Can automatically resize the screenshot crop area to match the size and shape of the window you want to take a screenshot of. Just put the top left corner of the ShotGlass window over the window’s title bar.

It also uses plugins to enhance functionality:

1. Image processing “Mixer” plugins. I’ve provided a watermark plugin which does images and text, and a highlight plugin which uses the thumbnail area to highlight a portion of the screen in the shot. But anything you can imagine in image processing can be done with an extremely simple interface.
2. Image output “Glass” plugins which control the file output. The default one is to output to the clipboard, but I’ve already included ones for Png and Bmp output, and I’ll put one in later for Jpg with compression.

1. File handling “Drinker” plugins which can upload the file, or basically do whatever you want to do with the screenshot files once they’re saved. I’ve already included one for FTP uploading, and I’m working on Gallery uploads for my original geoShell purposes.

And finally, it has command-line features:

• Named configs, so you can specify a config (which is saved on-exit) using /config:configname This allows you to set up different types of shots which you can take later, because …
• Take a cropped screenshot “instantly” (without ever showing the UI) if you pass the parameter: /instant

• Take a full screen shot instantly using: /fullscreen

I’ll put up more information here later, including screenshots of the very nice configuration panel and the right-click menu (which includes documentation of the hotkeys), but for now I want to get on with getting this beta release out so I can get some feedback.

Here’s it’s release license...
Here’s the download …

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