Feature List

Here is a partial list of Capture Professional v6's features. If you have any questions about functionality, either download and explore the demo or send an email to support@creativesoftworx.com.

Screen Capture Features

Captures images and video using twelve screen capture operations. One screen capture operation is assigned to the PrintScreen key. All screen capture operations can be directly accessed via configurable hotkeys.

Screen Capture Operation	Description
Active Window	Automatically captures the foreground window. If Capture Professional is the foreground window, it captures the window that becomes active when Capture Professional disappears to make the capture.
Active Window Contents	Automatically captures the contents of the foreground window. If Capture Professional is the foreground window, it captures the window that becomes active when Capture Professional disappears to make the capture.
Control	Captures a control that you click on.
Desktop	Captures the entire desktop.
DirectX	Captures a DirectX surface. This is used to capture from media player applications or games. If you tried to use the print screen key or another screen capture tool to capture from a media player and all you got was a black rectangle, you should use this screen capture operation.
Ellipse	Captures an elliptical area of the screen that you define. The size can optionaly be predefined.
Multiple Window	Captures one or more windows or controls into a single image. This is useful for capturing stacked dialog boxes or tearoff menus.
Pointer	Captures only the mouse pointer. The mouse pointer can be automatically included when using other screen capture operations.
Polygon	Captures a polygonal area of the screen that you define.
Rectangle	Captures a rectangular area of the screen that you define. The size can optionaly be predefined.
Single Window	Captures a window that you click on.
Window Contents	Captures the contents of a window that you click on.

After capturing an image, Capture Professional automatically uses the selected output configuration consisting of one or more output actions. The following output actions are available: Create an image window, save the image (can be used multiple times), print the image or copy the image.
Capture Professional can automatically scroll an image to capture more than can vertically fit on the screen.
Capture Professional has a capture assistant to help you learn screen capture operations that require user input.

Image Editing Features

Capture Professional v6's editor and screen capture functionality is integrated within the same application.
Non-sequential infinite undo. Capture Professional v6's editor can undo anything at anytime without affecting anything else that you have done.

Handles 7 formats of images

Image Formats	Description
32-bit color	This format uses 8 red, green and blue bits for color plus 8 alpha layer bits for transparency. Capture Professional can edit alpha values with all drawing tools as well as most effects and operations.
24-bit color	This format uses 8 red, green and blue bits. It can have a transparent layer.
16-bit color	Typically this format uses 5 red, green and blue bits or 5 red, 6 green and 5 blue bits. Capture Professional can handle any allocation of bits that adds up to 16 or less. It can have a transparent layer.
8-bit palette color	This format uses up to 256 colors. It can have a transparent layer.
8-bit grayscale	This format uses 256 shades of gray. It can have a transparent layer.
4-bit palette color	This format uses 16 standard colors. It can have a transparent layer.
1-bit black and white	This format uses black and white pixels. It can have a transparent layer.

Capture Professional works with multiple media types instead of just solid colors. All samples below were generated using a standard image and drawing a curve using two arrowhead ends.

Media	Sample	Description
Solid Color		This media is a continous color. If you are editing a 32-bit image, you can specify alpha values (opacity). If you are editing an image with a transparent layer, you can use transparency or inverse transparency.
Faded Colors		This variation of solid media blends a continous color into the background using a configurable percentage. If you are editing a 32-bit image, you can specify alpha values (opacity). This example used the green above at 50%.
Gradients		This media type gradually transitions between two colors in one of 13 patterns. This example used a NE to SW gradient.
Hatch		This media type generates one of 6 patterns. The fill (yellow in this sample) can be specified or left transparent.
Textures		This media type stretches or tiles another image. This example tiled the Santa Fe Stucco.bmp file that is probably in your Windows directory.
Effects		This media type applies one of the following effects: Adjust Color, Adjust Contrast, Adjust Hue Saturation & Brightness, Equalize, Gaussian blur, Gray, Histogram Brighten, Invert, Outline, Pixelize, Red Eye Reduction, Remove Noise, Sharpen, Solarize and Variable Blur. This example used the Solarize effect.
Color Replacement		This media type replaces all colors within a threshold with another color. The replacement color can be relative or absolute. This example relatively replaces an off white color with a red. The threshold used was fairly large, but not large enough to completely replace the area covered by the upper right arrowhead.

Images can be edited using 13 drawing tools.

Drawing Tool	Description
Select Area	This tool is used to select, move, copy or smear a rectangular, elliptical or polygonal area of an image.
Edit Object	This tool is used to move or alter a drawing tool that has already been completed.
Pick Color	This tool is used to send colors from the image to the foreground and background media wells. All drawing tools have the ability to send colors from the image to the currently selected media well by using the middle mouse button.
Freehand	This tool draws a continuous line that follows the mouse.
Line	This tool draws a straight line.
Connected	This tool draws a series of connected straight lines.
Curve	This tool uses four points to draw a bezier curve.
Fill	This tool replaces the color of a pixel and all adjoining pixels that are similar with another color.
Spray Paint	This tool randomly scatters pixels of a given media within a definable radius at a definable rate.
Text	This tool draws text.
Hollow	This tool draws a hollow user-defined or predefined shape with or without text.
Filled	This tool draws a filled user-defined or predefined shape with or without text.
Solid	This tool draws a solid user-defined or predefined shape with or without text.

Images can be edited using 29 operations.

Operation	Description
Add Border	This operation adds a border of user-defined thickness.
Add Transparent Layer	This operation adds a transparent layer to the current image.
Add Transparent Layer from Background	This operation adds a transparent layer to the current image.
Adjust Size	This operation adds or removes pixels from individual sides of the current image.
Change Color Palette	This operation redefines one of the palette colors of the current image.
Color Replace	This operation replaces the currently selected foreground color with the currently selected background color in the current image or its selected area.
Convert to 32-Bit Color	This operation changes the image's color depth to 32 bits.
Convert to 24-Bit Color	This operation changes the image's color depth to 24 bits.
Convert to 16-Bit Color	This operation changes the image's color depth to 16 bits.
Convert to 8-Bit Palette Color	This operation changes the image's color depth to 8 bits.
Convert to 8-Bit Grayscale	This operation changes the image's color depth to 8 bits.
Convert to 4-Bit Palette Color	This operation changes the image's color depth to 4-bits.
Convert to Black & White	This operation changes the image's color depth to 1 bit.
Crop	This operation reduces the image to the selected area.
Flip Horizontal	This operation flips the current image or its selected area left to right.
Flip Vertical	This operation flips the current image or its selected area top to bottom.
Import Palette	This operation changes the current color palette to the a previously saved palette.
Netscape Palette	This operation changes the current color palette to the 216 standard colors that Netscape products use to render images.
Rainbow Palette	This operation changes the current color palette to a 256 color palette that contains 20 standard Windows colors, 20 shades of gray and 216 rainbow colors
Remove Transparent Layer	This operation removes the transparent layer from the current image transparent colors with the currently selected background media.
Resize	This operation stretches the current image to a width and height specified in pixels or (inches or centimeters if resolution is set for the current image).
Rotate 90° Clockwise	This operation rotates the current image 90° to the right.
Rotate 90° Counter-Clockwise	This operation rotates the current image 90° to the left.
Rotate Any Angle	This operation rotates the current image in one degree increments.
Scale	This operation increases or decreases the current image's size by a specified percent, maintaining the current width to height ratio.
Set Resolution	This operation changes the resolution information of the current image.
Stamp Image	This operation adds the current date and/or time or custom text to the top or bottom of the current image.
Stretch	This operation increases or decreases the current image's size.
Windows Palette	This operation changes the current color palette to the 16 standard or 20 extended default Windows colors.

Images can be edited using 25 effects.

Effect	Description
Adjust Color	This effect modifies the red, green and blue components of all pixels within current image or the selected area of the current image.
Adjust Hue, Saturation & Brightness	This effect adjusts the hue, saturation and brightness of the current image or its selected area.
Change Brightness	This effect brightens or darkens the current image or its selected area.
Contrast	This effect increases the contrast of the current image or its selected area by expanding the brightness range.
Drop Shadow	This effect adds a shadow to the current image.
Edge Emphasis	This effect enhances directional lines within the current image.
Equalize	This effect reassigns brightness levels of the current image or its selected area so that each brightness level is more evenly represented.
Fade Edges	This effect gradually blends the edges selected in the Fade Edges dialog with the background media.
Gamma Brighten	This effect brightens or darkens the current image or its selected area by adjusting the gamma curve of the image.
Gaussian Blur	This effect gives the current image or its selected area a hazy, slightly out of focus appearance.
Gray	This effect removes color from the current image or its selected area without converting the actual image format.
Histobrighten	This effect brightens the current image or its selected area by reassigning brightness levels so that contrast is improved.
Invert	This effect applies a photo-negative effect to the current image or its selected area.
Midrange Brighten	This effect brightens the intermediate brightness levels within the current image or its selected area.
Outline	This effect highlights edges within the current image or its selected area.
Pixelize	This effect averages neighboring pixels into user-defined square areas.
Pointillistic Painting Style	This effect makes an image appear as if it was painted in the style of Seurat with lots of little dots and dabs of paint.
Posterize	This effect reduces the number of colors that exist within an image.
Quick Emboss	This effect embosses the current image by combining an image and its inverse equally.
Raise Edges	This effect raises the edges of the image to appear like a 3D button.
Red Eye Reduction	This effect removes red eye from photographic images.
Remove Noise	This effect removes random noise from the current image or its selected area.
Sharpen	This effect increases the differences between neighboring pixels of the current image or its selected area.
Solarize	This effect inverts all pixels above the specified threshold and optionally maximizes the contrast of the effect.
True Emboss	This effect smoothes out irregularities in the image and accentuates the color boundaries.

Drawing tools, operations and effects can be combined into macros for automatic or quick application of multiple actions.

Image Extraction

Capture Professional can extract bitmap, icon and mouse pointer images embedded in 32-bit EXE, DLL and .SCR files using a dialog similar to most Open dialogs.

Scanning

Capture Professional can acquire one or more images using TWAIN compliant scanners and digital cameras.

Output

Capture Professional can save images in the following image formats: BMP, CUR, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PCX, PNG, RLE, TGA and TIF. Videos are saved in the AVI format using a CODEC of your choice.
Capture Professional can print images and single video frames on one or more pages.
Capture Professional can copy the current image, the current image's selected area or the current frame of the current video to the clipboard. If the current image has a transparent layer, the transparent layer will be converted to the media in the background media well.
Capture Professional can email images and video as file attachments via a MAPI compliant email package.
Capture Professional can publish images or video to the Internet via FTP.

Configurable User Interface

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