If you only make one screenshot per week or even month, then most likely you will be happy with the standard windows routine of hitting the "Print Screen" key, opening the "Paint" program, pasting the image, resizing, cropping and saving it. At least that is how I was doing it for a long time until it started to annoy me and I decided to do something about it.

ScreenShot Assistant is designed to help you create screenshots. How does this sound: with a single hotkey combination, this program can take a screenshot, resize it, show or hide the mouse pointer, add some text to the image and save it to disk. But there is more than that. Let's take a look at the program features in detail:

Macros

The program contains a set of macros, each with different customizable hotkey, each designed to take a specific screenshot style. If you are not satisfied with the supplied macros, you can modify them or create new ones.

Screenshot types

With this program, you can take screenshots of the

Hotkeys

Each macro has its own customizable hotkey.

Saving images

ScreenShot Assistant can immediately save the screenshot using the specified file name. It can use auto-enumeration to append auto-incremented numbers to the end of the file name. Or, it can ask you for the file name after the screenshot is taken.

Image format

Program can save images as bitmaps (16 colors, 256 colors, 16-bit or 24-bit), jpeg (8-bit gray scale or true color 24-bit) or GIFs (from monochrome to 8-bit quality) including animated GIFs.

GIF animations

Instead of taking just one screenshot, program can record a GIF animation! You can either specify frame-rate and start/stop the macro to start/stop recording, or, you can use "step-animation" and record each frame separately with a specified time delay between the frames.

Optional mouse pointer

You can specify whether to show or hide the mouse pointer from the screenshots. If you decide to show the mouse pointer, you can either show the original pointer shape or select a different pointer shape from a file.

Screenshot comments/notes

Program can write text on the screenshots, with several options on text placement and customizable font.

Resizing

Screenshot images can be resized to a desired percentage of the original, or to a fixed height or width.

Other options

You can customize hotkeys for stopping the animation, selecting a screen rectangle and selecting the screenshot window. You can also choose sound (WAV) files to be played when a screenshot is taken, and when animation recording is finished.