Screen Capturing is the way to get a screenshot of a screen or specified portions of the screen. Today’s, it is a very important part of computer knowledge. Screen capturing helps us to adding snapshots to Microsoft Office programs, preparing creative tutorials, copying a image or webpage, capturing a image from a video, sharing error messages to support person.
To enhance the experience with screen capturing, following are top 5 screen capturing tools which are totally free for use:

1. PicPick:

PicPick is an all-in-one screen capturing tool. Except capturing screenshot, it can also act as:
1. Image editor (almost all editing feature available),
2. Color picker (very handy tool for designing graphics and editing images),
3. Color palette,
4. Pixel- ruler (measuring the size of an element on screen),
5. Protractor (Angle measurement on screen),
6. Crosshair (for getting coordinates of a point on screen) and even a whiteboard. It supports Watermark feature. This is freeware if used only for Personal use.
The most salient feature of this program is that it supports Freehand Screen Capturing. Taking finely tuned screenshot is also easier due to magnifier feature.

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2. Screenshot Captor:

Screenshot Captor can take a snapshot of the active window to a fixed size zone and including objects, scrolling windows (great for capturing sites from top to bottom) and even the entire working space(in case of multiple monitors).
Salient features are: 1. Light on system resources.
2.Variety of capturing options with many filters and effects to apply.
3.Take snapshots from webcams; record video with the ESR add-on.
4.Easy sharing through emailing and uploading to image hosting sites. Easy integration with 3rd party image editors.

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3. Screengrab:

This is also great tool for taking snapshot or screen-capturing. It works with both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. The special feature of this program is that we can set delay in getting screenshots (from 1 to 90 seconds). Also have auto-save feature. It save image files in formats PNG, JPEG or BMP.You can grab snapshot of any screen by one click.



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4. GreenShot:

Greenshot is a screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
1.Light on system resources (size less than 1.5 MB).
2.Direct export to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS paint, Windows Live Mail, Outlook.
3.Support direct upload to image hosting sites - Picasa, Imgur, Dropbox, Box, Flickr.
4.It quickly creates screenshots of a selected region, window or full screen. Even support capturing complete web pages while scrolling, from Internet Explorer.
5. Easy to understand and configurable.

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5. Snipping Tool:

This tool comes with Windows operating system as default program.
To access this tool:
Go to Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> Snipping Tool. You can save snip as JPEG, PNG, GIF, and HTML.
The snip directly opens in its image editor in which you can annotate the snip. It has limited functionalities.



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