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8-31-2007 - Posted in software
This first non-beta public release allows users to capture active window / region / full-screen screenshots locally to their computer with custom automatic naming conventions such as Name_of_Window-8.24.2007-10.51.03PM, optionally edit it with image editing software immediately afterwords, optionally upload them to their FTP server, and then put the URL of the screenshot in the clipboard when finished to paste to a friend (all with just one keystroke).
At the moment ZScreen currently uses PNG and JPEG. It uses PNG for anything below 350KB and then switches to JPEG after that barrier. The reason why it does this is because generally PNG images can provide a very high quality and crisp image of most desktop screenshots not involving too much imagery in very small sizes, but when you try to take a screenshot of another high quality image, it will start to take up massive space where JPEG will not. In the next release there will the option of when you would like it to switch or if you would like it to switch at all.
Also in production I have a side project going which is flash and php... A demo is going at https://brandonz.net/zscreen. It displays your current images as thumbnails and allows you to page through them. You can click on a thumbnail and view the entire image in the viewer. Also you can copy the url to your clipboard to send to someone else. It also supports "sets" so that you can create new directories and copy images into and then just hand out a new URL for all of those images. More information will be available on this later, it will be on sf.net soon.
At the moment ZScreen currently uses PNG and JPEG. It uses PNG for anything below 350KB and then switches to JPEG after that barrier. The reason why it does this is because generally PNG images can provide a very high quality and crisp image of most desktop screenshots not involving too much imagery in very small sizes, but when you try to take a screenshot of another high quality image, it will start to take up massive space where JPEG will not. In the next release there will the option of when you would like it to switch or if you would like it to switch at all.
Also in production I have a side project going which is flash and php... A demo is going at https://brandonz.net/zscreen. It displays your current images as thumbnails and allows you to page through them. You can click on a thumbnail and view the entire image in the viewer. Also you can copy the url to your clipboard to send to someone else. It also supports "sets" so that you can create new directories and copy images into and then just hand out a new URL for all of those images. More information will be available on this later, it will be on sf.net soon.
Comments for ZScreen v1.0 released
Brian - 9/13/2007
Thanks for this app! =) I've been looking for something that does this for ages.
Looking forward to the option to switch between JPEG and PNG.
Thanks for this app! =) I've been looking for something that does this for ages.
Looking forward to the option to switch between JPEG and PNG.
Alfred fox - 9/16/2007
I love your app Brandon. I want to beta test 1.1 if you'll let me :) I'm a huge fan of 1.0 and can't wait to see what you've got in store.
I love your app Brandon. I want to beta test 1.1 if you'll let me :) I'm a huge fan of 1.0 and can't wait to see what you've got in store.
syka - 9/24/2007
Thank's
Thank's
Hulk News - 1/2/2008
When will the version comes out ?
When will the version comes out ?