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The
first time user step-by-step guide
ScreenHunter is designed so that it's
always in the standby mode, ready for you to take a screenshot. The
ScreenHunter main window only has four tabs. The first two, From and
To are used to set the screen capture settings.
The From tab is for assigning how and
what you want to capture, and the To tab is for what to add how you
want to do it with the capture. The other two tabs, the Options tab
provides customize choices and the Tasks tab lists other useful tools
for your capture.
The following example is to
capture a part of screen with the mouse pointer, save it to a JPEG file
and copy to the Clipboard.
Step #1: Download & Install
- Download the setup package, save
to your hard drive and run to install.
To run, you can press Windows + E to open Windows Explorer,
then locate the downloaded file and double click on it.
- After the install, run
ScreenHunter 6 Pro from the Windows Start menu, or the icon on your
desktop.
When you run it,
you will notice the ScreenHunter icon (hand) in your Windows system
tray.
Step #2: What and How to Capture: "From"
Pick a Hotkey to start if
you want
A
hotkey
is the
key you press on your keyboard to actually capture. You can
choose any key combination or single key, say F6 only, as
your hotkey. You can always click the Capture Now button
to capture.
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Choose What to
Capture & What to Include
- In this example, in the
Capture What group, select Rectangular area and
change the settings by clicking the button on the right.
- In the Include
group box, check Mouse pointer.
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Step #3: Choose Where to Save Capture: "To"
- In this example, on the To tab,
check Clipboard to copy the capture to the Windows
Clipboard, and check Editor if you want to edit right
after.
- In the Save to File group box, check
JPG to save to a JPEG file.
- Select Automatic for the filename
and click the filename button beside if you want to change
the filenaming format.
- Click the folder button at the bottom,
and select Desktop as the location for your captures.
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Step #4: Capture
- Click Capture Now to capture.
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Press your hotkey on your keyboard, F6 in this case,
to capture a rectangular area on the screen. You can set to
show a crosshair, and a Zoombox magnifies the area. They can
be customized on the Options tab. It uses the
Highlight color to highlight the area.
- Press the left mouse button down and drag it to anywhere
on the screen until the area is what you like, then release
the mouse button.
If Adjustable Rectangle is checked on the Rectangular Capture Settings
dialog,
after you release your mouse, the selected area is shown
highlighted. You can use your mouse or arrow keys to fine
tune the selection and press the Enter or Space
bar on your keyboard to finish.
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Step #5: Done - Get Your Screenshot
- Pick up your capture on your Desktop.
- If you use another location to save your
captures, open Windows Explore (press Windows + E).
Go to your file folder assigned in Step #3 to pick up your
JPEG file.
- The capture is also copied to the
Clipboard, that you can paste to another program, such as MS
Word.
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To Cancel
Right-click the mouse button to cancel.
When you have started capturing and Zoombox is shown or auto-scrolling,
press the Esc key to cancel.
To cancel auto-capturing:
- Press the hotkey again
- Open the main ScreenHunter screen
and press the Stop button
- Press the Stop button on
the toolbar in Image Editor.
This is a very basic way to use ScreenHunter.
Explore more features for details on how to get the most out of ScreenHunter.
A video guide
Scrolling window /
Long Web page
auto-scroll
guide
This feature is used for capturing a scrollable area that is currently
outside of the viewing area of the window. You can set to auto-scroll
vertically or horizontally.
Auto-scroll will start from the
current window scrolling position.
Because scrolling is application-dependent, auto-scroll may not work with all
applications, such as windows
that contain constantly changing elements.
The scrolling speed also depends on the machine and content of the window. You
may need to adjust the scroll delay on the Scrolling Window / Web capture
Settings dialog.
For long web pages, please,
- Use Internet Explore (IE) to view and capture.
- Pause any moving objects, videos, flash movies, or wait until
they are still to start scrolling.
A video guide
Step-by-step Example
I want to auto-scroll and capture a long web page, say IE showing "Google
News".
- On the From tab, choose F6 only as my
hotkey and select
Scrolling window / Web in the Capture What group. On the Scrolling
Window / Web capture Settings dialog, pick Vertical to
scroll a web page. And start with a default Scroll Delay, which is the time to allow the scrolled part to appear properly
after each scroll. It can be short for fast machines.
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On the To tab, check Editor. (It's not necessary to have
any files checked at the same time.)
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Make sure Google News is showing in IE and pause any moving objects
like videos etc. and wait for any animation to finish.
Now, press my
hotkey F6 and
move the mouse to
find a scrollable object. A scrollable object is a child window, which is the
smallest
window containing the scrollable content. In this case, is the
IE showing "Google News".
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Press the left-mouse button to start auto-scrolling. If the window is not
scrollable, a warning message is displayed. If the window contains large
complex content, or the machine is slow, changing Scroll Delay to
a longer one could help scrolling.
[Controlled Scroll/Cancellation]
Press the ESC key on my keyboard or right-click the mouse button to stop
auto-scrolling and capture the scrolled part so far. I
can use this to control where to start and finish in order to capture
a specific part of a large scrollable window.
For a Microsoft Office file, such as Word or
Excel file,
you can save the file in the HTML format (choose Save as Web
Page... in the File menu). And then use IE to load the HTML file to be
auto-scrolled. HTML files
showing in IE work better on auto-scroll.
Multi-object, submenu capture
guide
- Select Window / Object / Menu in the Capture What
group and check Multiple objects to capture more than one object, such as menu blocks, buttons and windows.
Multiple objects and Text are mutually exclusive, that
only one of these can be checked at a time.
Press your
hotkey
on your keyboard or
click Capture Now to capture. When capturing multiple objects, click the left mouse button to add an object,
and press
Enter or Space bar on your keyboard to finish.
E.g. to capture three objects on the Windows Explorer as
below:
Because menu is application dependent, if the
above doesn't work, you can choose Full screen (and even check Advanced capture) to
capture the full screen with your menu and crop it in the Image
Editor.
Click here for Advanced
capture.
How to video guide:
'Specific Window' capture guide
You can use ScreenHunter
to lock-in a specific window and capture even it's minimized.
This
is useful when you need to capture a specific window periodically, and it's
sometime minimized that you may work on other things.
Click here for scheduled capture.
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Choose Specific window in the
Capture What group.
More settings are available by
clicking the settings button beside the radio button.
You can use the Window Picker
tool to pick up your window to capture.
To pick a window, press your mouse button down on the Window Picker
icon and drag your mouse to find your target window and release the
mouse button.
Or, you can enter the exact window title of the window you want to
capture.
Choose the Refresh time before capturing. This is needed when
the window is minimized. It is also application dependent that it
takes time to open the window before capturing.
Once you're done with the options, you can use the same way
as in regular window to capture.
Game / DirectX / Screen saver capture guide
Using ScreenHunter to capture
game, screen saver and special menu screens is just a 3-step process. Here is an
example to capture a game screen with no delay.
[Step-by-step Example]
- On the From tab, choose F6 only as my
hotkey. It's recommended
to use a simple function key to capture games and screen saver
screens (why?).
Select Full screen in Capture What and check
Advanced.
On the To tab, check Editor to get the capture in
the Image Editor. No need to check any file at the same time (only if you
want to save to a file right away).
- Now, run your game
program.
- Press F6 on your keyboard.
If it's a game screen, you may need to press several
times to capture more than once (why?).
If it's a screen saver, it may terminate the screen saver because a
key has been pressed.
- Go to the Image Editor to find
your capture.
If the Viewer is not showing in the Windows
taskbar, right-click the ScreenHunter icon in the system tray, choose
'Open Editor' from the menu. Or, click the Image Editor link at
the bottom of the
Main Window or on the Tasks tab.
Video / Movie capture guide
Some systems have graphics hardware which can
do a hardware overlay of video on the screen that can bypasses the normal
Windows display. As a result, screenshots may be all black. In order to
capture movie and video screens, here is a step-by-step guide,
- Select 'Movie' in the 'Capture What' section on the From tab and only check Viewer on the To tab. (Check File
only if you need to save right away.)
- Press the
hotkey to capture while the movie is playing. You may see the
movie screen disappearing when dragging the mouse. That's alright. Keep
dragging and selecting the area.
- If nothing (only black screen) has been captured in Viewer, pause the movie, set the focus to the movie screen (click the movie window once),
and try again.
- If you still cannot see the capture after Step 3, uncheck "Overlays" in your player.
If you still cannot see the capture after Step 4, disable "Hardware Acceleration" in your player
and pause to capture again.
[Media Player] Change the
"Hardware Acceleration" slider to None on the following dialog
box.
[Media Player 6.4 and earlier]
View>Options>Playback
[Media Player 7 to 10] Tools>Options>Performance
[Media Player 11] Now Playing>More Options>Performance
[RealPlayer] Open View>Preferences.
On the "Performance" tab, uncheck "Use optimized video
display".
[QuickTime5]
Edit>Preferences>QuickTime Preferences... Select "Video Settings"
from the drop down list and uncheck "Enable DirectDraw Acceleration".
If you still cannot see the capture after Step 5, disable your machine hardware acceleration and
pause to capture
again.
[Windows 98] Open "System" on the Control Panel. Click the
"Graphics..." button on the
"Performance" tab. Change the "Hardware acceleration"
slider to None and click OK.
[Windows NT 4] Open "System" on the Control Panel. On the
"Performance" tab, change the "Boost"
slider to None and click OK. [Windows
2000/XP] Open "Display" on the Control Panel. Click the
"Advanced..." button on the "Settings" tab. Find the
"Troubleshooting" tab and change the "Hardware
acceleration" slider to None and click OK.
ScreenHunter 6 can change the "Hardware acceleration" when run in XP.
Some machines can capture
movie / video screens by
using step 4 or 5 only. Since disabling hardware acceleration will slow down many applications,
you may want to put the settings back after taking screenshots.
[Vista & Windows 7]
To disable, you need to change the ScreenHunter 6 program
settings.
Locate the ScreenHunter 6 icon on your desktop or in Windows
Explorer and follow the instructions below.
if it's played from a DVD player, it is possible that it is
protected as per DVD copyright protection format.
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Shape / Non-Rectangular area capture guide
Non-rectangular capture options include Freehand, Ellipse, Round Rectangle and Polygon.
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Choose Shape in Capture What. And click the
settings button on the right to
choose settings.
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Select a shape form Freehand, Ellipse, Round Rectangle and Polygon. Background color is used to mask a shape and multi-object capture.
E.g. select 'Polygon' with 4 sides.
Once you're done with the options, you can use the same way
as rectangular area to capture.
'Auto-capture' guide
Use the Auto-capture feature to capture automatically at
any given interval. The timer is also flexible to set up duration, so you can monitor and
record your PC activities in a sure way.
[Step-by-step Example]
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On the From tab, choose F6 only as the
hotkey,
and select Fixed area to capture.
The auto-capture
option will be available
when Fixed area, Active window, Specific window or Full screen
is selected in Capture What.
Check Auto-capture every .... Choose to capture every 10 seconds and
select the
'for' radio button to set duration for 10 minutes. Auto-capture will stop
when the duration is reached. (Or, choose the 'forever' radio button to stop
manually.)
On the To tab, check one ore more
files to save.
Select Automatic for filename.
The 'Ask me' radio is
disabled when using auto-capture.
Now, press
your hotkey F6 on your keyboard to capture.
You will notice the
system tray icon is changed to show that it has started auto-capturing.
To stop auto-capturing when it has started
Press the
hotkey
again.
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Open the main screen and press the Stop button. The button will
only be enabled when auto-capturing.
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Press the Stop button on the toolbar in Image Editor.
If the interval is set to less than 10 seconds, no messages are
displayed after each capture.
Scheduled / recurring capture guide
You can use ScreenHunter scheduled capture
feature to set up any date and time to capture your screen in the future. It
is available when Fixed area, Active window,
Specific window or Full screen is selected in Capture What. It
can combine with the auto-capture to start auto-capturing at any given date and
time, or taking screenshots periodically -- recurring.
[Step-by-step example, a fixed area of screen]
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On the From tab, choose F6 only as the
hotkey, and select
Fixed area to capture.
Check Start at to set date and time.
Click the drop-down to select the date. Type or press up and down arrows to set
the hour, minute and second.
If you want to take screenshots periodically, check Recurring.
Recurring capture can be set at any starting time, and you can choose timing
options on the Recurring Capture Settings dialog,
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On the To tab, check files to save
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The ScreenHunter
icon in the system tray will change to hand with a clock. This indicates
the scheduled capture feature is turned on.
Profile guide
A profile is a collection of
settings you have picked on the From and To tab, such as what
to capture and where to save your captures. You can name a profile and
define a new hotkey and use it anytime by point and click.
The top-right button will show
the current status that either a profile
is used or no profile is used. Click the button to show the Profile
Manager dialog.
Profile Manager
 Use this hotkey with current settings
Choose to use no profile and set a hotkey for all captures. It will use the
currently selected settings on the From and To tab to
capture.
Use profile
Choose to use a profile. Some profile details are listed on the right as the
From and To settings.
All profiles are listed and currently selected profile is highlighted.
Sync with current settings
It will use the currently selected settings on the From and To
tab to update the selected profile (Profile name and hotkey will not change).
Add New Profile
It will use the currently selected settings on the From and To tab to save to a
profile with your name and hotkey choices.
Change
You can select a profile and change the Profile Name and Hotkey.
Export
A profile can be exported to an external file that you can use it later or
somewhere else. The Profile file is in the XML format.
Import
You can import and use any profile file exported previously.
You may click the Up and Down buttons to change the order.
You can Delete a profile by highlighting the profile and clicking this
button.
'Capture
Editing' guide
Part 1: Bitmap Editing
Part 2: Object Editing
ScreenHunter Image Editor is
a
unique
multiple image
editor that combines
bitmap and vector object editing into one.
As long as Editor is checked on the To tab, your capture
will be loaded into Image Editor.
Your captured image will be loaded
as bitmap first. On top of it, you can add drawing objects
such as arrows and bubbles and adding text. It comes with an array of
bitmap editing features, such as cropping to shape and advanced image
processing. As well, you will find object features like adding boxes,
highlighting cycles, symbols and speech bubbles.
As long as you save to the
ScreenHunter file format
(.SHF), it will keep objects editable. And can always export
to JPG, .PNG, etc. files as you go.
The image editor works in a 'pick-a-tool-and-apply-an-action'
fashion.
Part 1: Bitmap Editing
A bitmap (or raster) image is one of
the two major graphic types (the other being
vector objects).
A bitmap is composed of small colored dots called pixels in a grid. A
photo or your screenshot is a bitmap.
ScreenHunter Image Editor combines the functionality of photo-editing,
painting and vector-drawing in one easy-to-use user interface. You can
take your screenshot and edit it by drawing and painting with bitmap
tools, by converting vector objects to bitmap images, or by opening or
importing images.
It has a powerful set of features for tone and color adjustment, as well
as a number of ways to retouch your bitmap screenshots, including
cropping, resizing, border adding and rotation. In addition, Image
Editor has a set of artistic effect tools -- Dilate, Edge, Erode and
Jitter.
Bitmap Tools Panel
(more bitmap
features)
Pixel Selection Tools
The pixel selection tools draw selection marquees that define the
area of selected pixels. After you draw the selection marquee, you can
manipulate it by moving it, cut, copy, or apply other adjustments to the
area selected, or delete pixels without affecting the pixels beyond the
selection.
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The Marquee
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The Lasso tool
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Copy - If no area is selected, clicking the Copy button or
right-click or choosing Copy from the menu will copy the entire
image to the Clipboard.
If an area is selected, then the area will be copied, not the entire
image.
If objects are
selected, only objects are copied, ready to be pasted to an image in
Image Editor.
Cropping and Resizing Tools
The crop tools enables us to remove unwanted areas of an image.
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After an area is
selected by one of the selection tools above, you can click this
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Crop to shape
or resize image...
Click this button to crop the entire image or a selected
area to a shape or, resize the whole image.
Select the options on the following dialog and click OK to
finish.
Crop
to shape
You can crop to a shape from the list as "cookie cutters". You
can use the selection tools to select an area first.
If no area is selected, it will apply to the whole image.
Eg.
Resize
the whole image
Resize the entire image with your choice.
- Keep aspect ratio
Choose to resize the image while keeping the aspect ratio.
- To this width
Resize to match this width in pixels.
- To this height
Resize to match this height in pixels.
- Percentage
Resize to this percentage.
- Zoomed to this fixed size
Choose to zoom to this size regardless of the aspect ratio.
Add
space to sides, not zoomed
Enter the number of pixels to the sizes you want to add
space.
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Paint Tools
Bitmap Menu
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Function |
Crop Selected Area
Crop to Shape &
Resize... |
Click here
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Add Border...
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Similar to adding a
border to your capture right away on the To tab, you can add a
border to your capture later or to any image.
You can set width and choose a style and colors.
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Rotate Left
Rotate Right
Mirror
Flip
Rotate... |
On the Rotate dialog, you can choose a degree to rotate and a
background color.
Rotation will always apply to the whole image, not a selection.
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Brightness & Contrast... |
You can make a selection and apply the brightness &
contrast changes through the dialog.
If no selection is made, it will apply to the whole image.
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RGB &
Hue... |
You can make a selection and apply the color changes
through the dialog.
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Smoothness...
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You can make a selection and apply the smoothness changes
through the dialog.
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Gamma Correction...
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You can make a selection and apply the Gamma Correction
through the dialog.
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Threshold...
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You can make a selection and apply the Threshold changes
through the dialog.
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Auto Levels
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can use Auto Levels to make tonal range adjustments for a
selection or the whole image. It will
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Gray Scale |
You
can make it gray for a selection or the whole image.
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Negative |
You
can make it negative for a selection or the whole image.
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Artistic Effects Sub Menu
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Add Noise |
You
can add noise for a selection or the whole image.
Each time you choose the menu, it will add noise on top of the
current image.
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Patterned Glass |
You
can add a patterned glass effect for a selection or the whole
image.
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Dilate |
You
can add a dilate effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Edge |
You
can add an edge effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Emboss |
You
can add an emboss effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Erode |
You
can add an erode effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Jitter |
You
can add a jitter effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Median |
You
can add a median effect for a selection or the whole image.
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Change Bit Depth (Bpp)... |
You
can change the color depth of an image through the dialog.
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Count Colors |
You
can count the number of colors used in an image.
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Mix Two Images... |
You
can mix two images together to be one new image. You can choose
a mix type from the drop-down box.
This menu item will be available only when there are two or more
images open in the image editor.
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Part 2: Object Editing
Rather than painting directly on
an image, you can draw a vector object on a layer that is composited over the image.
Object drawing is a shape-based process where every line, brush stroke, and
shape is editable.
Object Tools and Properties Panel
ScreenHunter has many tools for drawing vector
objects. You can draw basic shapes, arrows, freehand paths, and load symbols
and pictures. Once an object is created or selected, the Properties panel
displays the properties of the currently selected object.
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The Object Selection tool selects
one or more objects.
Before you can do anything with any object, you must use this tool to select it.
Once an object is selected, the properties panel displays the properties of
the object and you can make changes on the panel.
[To select an object]
Make sure to click this Object
Selection tool, then
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Click the object
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Drag an selection area around the
objects
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To add an object to the selection, hold
down the Shift key and click the object
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To toggle an object in the selection,
hold down the Ctrl key and click the object
All objects can be converted to the bitmap. Once they are converted,
painted, they become part of the bitmap and not editable anymore.
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Objects
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The Arrow and Line tool
[To draw a vector object]
- Click the object tool, e.g. arrow and line tool. It
will appear as pressed down.
- Point your mouse to the starting point
on the image and press down the left mouse button.
- Keep pressing down the mouse button and
drag cross to the end point and release the left button.
- Don't worry about the color, size or position of
the object, you can change that on the properties panel.
The last changed property values will be used as the default values when you
create a new object, such as Line Width, Color, etc.
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The Rectangle tool
You can add text to any rectangles, round rectangles, ellipses,
bubbles and shapes.[To add & edit text on an object]
- Select the object, e.g. rectangle.
- Do any of the following,
- Double-click the object
- Press the Enter key or
- Press the Space key or
- Press Ctrl + Alt + T or
- Select Add & Edit Text from the Objects menu
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The Round Rectangle tool
To adjust the roundness, drag the yellow handle and move.
You can add a drop shadow to any rectangles, round rectangles,
ellipses and pictures.
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The Ellipse tool
Please see the Rectangle and Round Rectangle tool for details.
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The Bubble tool
It uses the same way to add text as for rectangles above.
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The Shape tool
You can change angle, sides color, and etc, on the Properties Panel.
To adjust the side angle, drag the yellow handle and move.
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The Freehand Line tool
To adjust the curves, drag a blue handle and move.
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The Symbol tool
Symbols are like icons that you can place anywhere as an object.
When the Symbol tool is clicked, you can choose a symbol from the Symbol
Picker dialog. The Symbol group dropdown lists the available symbol
groups.
To change a symbol that has been created, you can double-click on the symbol or click the
Change Symbol button on the Properties Panel to change.
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The Picture tool
A picture can be loaded using the Picture tool. As a picture object, you
can resize and place anywhere on the image and keep floating.
On the Properties Panel,
- When Lock size is checked, the
picture will be kept in the original size and not resizable.
- When Lock aspect radio is
checked, the picture can be resized but the width and height aspect ratio
will be kept as in the original picture.
- Check Drop shadow to add a drop
shadow.
You can add a drop shadow to any rectangles, round rectangles,
ellipses and pictures.
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More object editing features are
available from the Object menu.
Object Menu
In the Image Editor, the bitmap image will remain in its original
quality and all objects will remain in the SHF format that objects are
editable even you export (save as) to other format, such as a JPG file.
If you want to load the saved JPG file, you need to load the JPG file
from your hard drive.
You can always convert drawing objects to
bitmap if you need to.
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'Cropping, Cropping to shape and Resizing' guide
First, please take a look a the "Cropping
and Resizing Tools" above.
Here is a scenario,
"When an image is captured it always appears in the upper
left corner of the work area. Can I move that captured image to the
middle of the work area? This would enable me to put call outs, etc on
either side of the captured image which would make to competed image
more attractive. How do I do it?"
Here are 4 steps:
Step #1:
Step #2:
Step #3:
Step #4:
Color Picker guide
Wisdom-soft Color Picker provides a
convenient way to pick a color anywhere on your screen. It shows both the RGB
and hexadecimal color code.
To pick a color anywhere on screen
Press down Press, Move-n-Pick
and holding down your left mouse button. Then, move your mouse to
anywhere on the screen where you want to pick a color from, and release
the mouse button.
Hide this when picking
Check to hide the dialog when
picking up a color on the screen.
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'Auto-email'
guide
ScreenHunter can
send your capture directly to the default email outbox without human
intervention.
If you want to monitor your PC activities every minute,
you can use auto-capture to capture a screen every minute and
send email using the auto-emailing feature. So you can monitor your PC
activities anywhere in the world.
Check Settings
From your IE, you can check to make sure which email program is set up, e.g.
Outlook email program is used.
Step-by-step
Example
You have Outlook on your machine as you regular email. You want to send captures
automatically.
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When ScreenHunter is started, it checks to see if an
email manager is installed on
your machine. If it is, when Email is selected on the To tab, email settings
on the Email tab will be enabled. If the PC is not set up to use email, all
email related controls will be disabled.
In Outlook, set to Send/Receive messages every minute.
- In order to use email, check File and Email on the To tab to send a capture as an email
attachment. On the Email Options dialog, choose 'Send automatically' to tell
ScreenHunter to send email right away. Click the 'To...' button to
pick email recipients from the address book or type email addresses in the
To and CC field. Enter a subject and message.
You can send a test email to see if it works with your settings. Clicking 'Check
and Send a
test email' will check and send an email with a sample attachment to your email
outbox.
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If the above works, press your
hotkey to capture a
screen.
- After capturing, the
capture should be sent to the Outlook outbox. Since you have set Outlook to send
email every minute, the email will be sent automatically.
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'Automatic file
naming' guide
The
automatic file naming feature is to save captures with automatically generated file
names, so you don't
have to stop each time you capture and you can capture as many as you
like.
Step-by-step Example
Scenario: "I would like to press a hotkey and have ScreenHunter
automatically capture what is in the active window, build it to a file
and automatically create the file name without me being interrupted by
having to select the window or select a portion of the window. This way,
I can walk through an entire application process in order and later go
back and gather the screens into a document adding notes."
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Click the Hotkey & Profile button on the top-right, choose your
hotkey,
say F6.
On the From tab, choose Active Window in the
Capture What group.
On the To tab, check the files to save. (It's not required to
check Editor or Clipboard at the same time.) Select to save file
JPEG and select Automatic for Filename. This is to tell ScreenHunter to save your captures automatically with a generated
filename.
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Click
the button to show the Automatic File Naming Settings dialog.
Check Number of digits and choose 2
that if you want to have a fixed number of digits,
01, 02, etc.
Highlight an item in the Order list box and click the up and down buttons on
the right to change the text sequence.
The Prefix or suffix can be set in any sequence. E.g. the prefix
can be in the middle and suffix can be in the front.
Select Never overwrite (generate a new filename) that when a newly generated
filename already exists in the current folder, it always generates a new
filename automatically.
We need to tell where the files will be saved. In the Folder
area on the To tab, click the folder button and pick, such as
the Desktop as your capture location.
On the Options tab, in the After Capture group,
uncheck the messages that will show after each capture.
It's now ready, that you can minimize ScreenHunter if you like.
Make sure your target window is active and has the focus. Then press your
hotkey F6
on your keyboard to capture.
Go
to your Desktop to find your capture.
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'Wysiwyg Printing' guide
ScreenHunter provides a
'Wysiwyg -- What you see is what you get' printing feature
that shows the actual image that will be printed on paper.
You
can also send the capture directly to the printer.
There're 2 ways to set print options and
print.
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Print button in Image Editor to show the print dialog.
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For automatic printing, check the button beside the Printer
checkbox on the To tab.
This screenshot shows the Print dialog originated from the
Editor with an actual image. If it is originated from the To tab, it will show a
sample image which will be replaced by your capture in the future.
Print in original image size
Select to print the image in the
original image size, pixel by pixel on the page. Since the normal image
captured on the screen has a resolution of the screen, usually 96 dpi
(dot per inch) or 120 dpi, and a modern printer can have 600 dpi or
more, the image may look small in the original size.
Fit to page
Select to
zoom the image to the page size, keeping the aspect ratio.
Zoom to
Select to
print the image zoomed to your choice. The maximum will be the size that
fits to the page size.
Smooth zooming
Check to use high quality zooming when zoomed.
Printer Settings....
Click to set up and change the printer.
Print Now
Click to print directly to the printer
using the current settings.
TThis button is only available when loaded from Image Editor.
How to setup the default
Printer settings
The
printer default settings are not set in any application. It's set by
Windows Printers. Here are the steps,
1. Click the Windows Start button
and then, Printers and Faxes.
2. On the Printers and Faxes
window, highlight the default printer (with a check mark on the icon),
and right click. Select "Printing Preferences...". The settings you
pick on the "Printing Preferences" dialog will be used as the default
values.
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'ScreenZoom & ScreenDraw' guide
ScreenHunter ScreenZoom provides a convenient way to enlarge your screen
anytime
to see what's going on on the screen and draw lines and notes on the
screen.
This can be integrated into your demo,
discussion and training sessions, etc. You also can "freeze" the screen
and directly draw on it by using ScreenDraw.
To enlarge the screen, run ScreenZoom
Press your ScreenZoom hotkey to enlarge, and you can then draw or
highlight it on screen.
To draw on the screen without ScreenZoom
Press your ScreenDraw hotkey to
enter the mode, and you can draw on screen.
To cancel the ScreenZoom or ScreenDraw mode
Press one of the following to
cancel,
- The hotkey again
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Right-click the mouse
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The Esc
key
- The Space key
ScreenZoom Settings
Click the settings button
beside the ScreenZoom link in the Tasks group on the Tasks
tab to set up.
Use these hotkeys to start/stop
This group is for setting
up the hotkeys you press on your keyboard to start or stop zooming
the screen, or just ScreenDraw.
Click the buttons to change the hotkeys.
Change the pen color or clear
You can press these keys on your keyboard
to change the pen
color when it's in the ScreenZoom or ScreenDraw mode.
Change the pen
width (2-14)
You can press these arrow
keys on your keyboard to change the pen width when it's in the
ScreenZoom or ScreenDraw mode.
The width can be 2 to 14 pixels.
Making PDF from Word Document (DOC) guide
You can use the saving to PDF feature to create a PDF file from a Word
file.
Here is an example of how to make a PDF from a Word 2003 document.
Step 1
Make your document in Word 2003.
Step 2
Click Print Preview.
Step 3
In Print Preview, enlarge it to 100% to 200% for better viewing in the
PDF file later.
Step 4
Use your ScreenHunter Pro and choose Scrolling
Window to capture and copy to the ScreenHunter Image Editor.
Step 5
In Image Editor, Zoom out (press Ctrl+-) and crop the word part only.
Step 6
Save and get your PDF file.
You may also save your Word document as an HTML file or web page (choose
Save As... or Web page preview from the File menu),
and using auto-scroll to capture it in IE.
'Web capture' guide
ScreenHunter Web capture
provides a convenient way to search and download images related to a website
on the Internet. It downloads and saves images locally on your hard drive.
Web capture, downloading is site dependent, which means not all images on a web
page can be downloaded. You can try to use auto-scroll to capture a long web
page.
Before Web capture
Make sure your PC is connected directly to the Internet. There should
have no proxy server in between.
To run Web capture
- Click Web Capture... on the Tasks tab to show the
'Web Capture'
dialog.
- Enter the website URL, such as 'www.wisdom-soft.com/sample'
in the URL edit box and the folder location where all downloaded files
are stored.
- Press Start to start Web capturing. The current status is
displayed in the status box at left.
- You can press 'Stop' to stop at any time.
How to make a transparent round image?
Scenario: "What I want is to take a snippet of an image,
e.g. taking a cloud out of a sky image, and have only the cloud as a
final image, masking everything out. So I use the "non-rectangular"
capture options, but the result is always rectangular. I want the result
to be round. I don't want the rectangular background. How do I do that?"
In ScreenHunter 6 Pro, you can save
your screenshot as a GIF file and set the transparent color to be the
same as the square box (background) color. Then, when you use this GIF
file, say on your web page, the square box will not show, hence you'll
see the round part only. JPEGs and BMPs do not support transparency.
Step-by-step example,
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Choose Shape in the
Capture What group. And click the settings button beside.
Choose your 'Background color' on the "Non-rectangular Area Capture
Options" dialog. E.g. a dark gray.
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On the To tab, choose GIF File (*.gif) and, check
Transparent color to choose the one exact the same as in Step 1.
Please make sure to pick the exact same color (same code) as the Background
color above.
- Capture your
screenshot. The saved GIF file will have the outside square box
transparent when viewed in a web browser, or Word. In some viewers,
such as ScreenHunter Viewer, you'll still see the gray background
color. This is for your editing purposes.
- You can add this transparent GIF image to your
web page, say using Microsoft FrontPage, that it will have its
background transparent.
- Alternatively, if you have an image with a different background, you
can use Image Editor to save it in a transparent GIF file.
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