Fergo Screenshot

Pros

• Completely free to use, not a limited trial.
• Different capture modes, including an automatic one.
• Can be controlled by user-defined hotkeys.
• Saves captures in desired image format.

Cons

• A small bug sometimes requires program restart before settings changes are applied.

With Fergo Screenshot, taking a snapshot of the content of your screen becomes more convenient than ever before. While Windows comes with a screenshot feature that sends your entire screen image to the clipboard when you hit the "Print Screen" key, letting you paste it to your favorite image editor, using this method isn't always practical.

There are times when you just need to save the image of a specific window you have running or take several screenshots in rapid succession. Fergo Screenshot is a program that makes itself particularly helpful in these scenarios. It has numerous capture modes, letting you grab the entire screen, an area that you define or the active window. There's also an automatic screen grabber feature that can take screenshots at intervals that you define.

With Fergo Screenshot, you don't have to go back and forth between the program and the content you want to capture. It lets you assign hotkeys to each capture mode, so you only need to have it running in the background for it to work. The captured screen images will be automatically saved to your chosen folders and will be numbered according to the order that they were taken.

You can resize the captured image to make it bigger or smaller according to your needs. The software supports a variety of image file formats for your convenience, including GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP. The program's main control interface is pretty self explanatory, so you should figure out where everything is right from the start. You also have the ability to set different skins for the user interface to give it a unique appearance, but you need to restart the program for the change to take effect.

For a small and free program created by an independent developer, Fergo Screenshot has a decent set of features and no major drawbacks. Only one small bug was reported by a few users. If the directory for screenshot storage is changed after some screenshots were already taken, the program sometimes doesn't take the change into consideration until you restart it. While this may be a bit annoying when it happens, no data will be lost, as all the image files will still be saved in the previous directory.

Fergo Screenshot can help anyone that wants to save an image of their screen activity. You can use it to create tutorials or instruction manuals that teach viewers how to perform tasks in certain programs, provide images of the interface or functions of a program that you've developed and are promoting or that you're reviewing on your website, or simply take a screenshot of an error message that appeared in a program you were using to help tech support diagnose the issue.

Pros

• Completely free to use, not a limited trial.
• Different capture modes, including an automatic one.
• Can be controlled by user-defined hotkeys.
• Saves captures in desired image format.

Cons

• A small bug sometimes requires program restart before settings changes are applied.