I've recently been creating some documentation at work for one of our
applications, and I've had a need to include a number of screen shots to
illustrate some features. In the past, I would simply hit Print
Screen, then open Paint and crop away until I had the screen shot
I was looking for. As you can imagine, this isn't the most efficient way to
create screen shots.
Luckily, David
reminded me of one of the utilities that Scott Hanselman posted on his Ultimate
Tools List named Cropper by Brian Scott. Cropper is
extremely easy to use and does exactly what it was intended to do: easily create
screen captures. The utility provides a resizable window that you place over the
area you want to capture, then you double-click the window. A copy of the screen
area is placed in a folder named Cropper, and that's all there is to it. If you
need a screen capture utility, I recommend taking a look at Cropper.