Print screen key iconCapture Professional vs. The Print Screen Key

The Print Screen key has been on the PC's keyboard since the days of DOS. It was at one time used to capture the text on the 80 character wide by 25 character tall screen. Eventually DOS gave way to Windows and Microsoft's developers wrote only the most basic of functionality for the button for the new operating system. Fortunately, Capture Professional greatly improves upon the Print Screen keys Windows functionality, making it an ideal print screen key replacement. You can read on below or you can download the free 30-day screen capture trial to get started immediately.

Capture Professional offers more screen capture options than the Print Screen key

The Print Screen key is limited to capturing the entire desktop or the active window. Capture Professional offers many more screen capture operations which enable you to easily isolate what you want to capture and omit what you don't.

Screen Capture Type Capture Professional v6 Print Screen key
Desktop Yes Yes
Active Window Yes Yes
User Defined Rectangles Yes No
User Selected Windows Yes No
User Defined Polygons Yes No
User Defined Ellipses Yes No
User Selected Controls Yes No
Multiple User Selected Windows Yes No
Mouse Pointer Yes No

Capture Professional can do things that the Print Screen key cannot

The Print Screen key is limited to capturing images that are the size of the screen or smaller.

Content that can be captured Capture Professional v6 Print Screen key
Images Yes Yes
Images larger than the screen Yes No
Video Yes No

Capture Professional has a built-in image editor

Editing Capability Capture Professional v6 Print Screen key
Built-in image editor with drawing tools Yes No
Can perform operations to resize, rotate, etc. Yes No
Can perform effects to blur, sharpen, etc. Yes No
Has macro support to quickly apply edits Yes No

Experience the difference today

Download iconVisit the trial download page to download the free 30-day trial of Capture Professional v6 Windows screen capture software.

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