Useful, Unusual Tools You've Found

[Lorelei]

I use clipmagic for all my print screens.
I don't have to paste and save every time I press print screen.
It records them all.

If you got SimCamera.exe during Sims 1, it still works as well.

[Disorder]

Unzip them all is useful when I have a .rar or .zip with 40 other .rars or. zips in it, because it'll do them all at once. That's the only thing I can think of using right now.

[liegenschonheit]

YAFSS does the same thing, just saves jpgs every time you hit the print screen button. Saves me ages every time I want to take screenshots or participate in a contest.

Oh and Flashgot is a godsend when you want to download everything in one go. I've used it when sussi's site and a few others went down just to make sure I had everything, and it's way faster. It would be perfect for the booty, come to think of it. It is a plugin for firefox, and I think there is a stand alone version for explorer too.

[BlueSoup]

When I had to reformat, I used flashgot for redownloading the booty.  It was perfect.

[alia]

For those of you who do not know what it is

YAFSS can be found here http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de/YAFSScreen/
Instructions can be found here: http://www.bluegrassairlines.com/screenshotguide.htm

[SunsetCiti]

Referring to the print screen savers, about how good is the quality of the saved images? I used one recommended to me by a friend but it was horrible graphics-wise. (It wasn't one that's been mentioned here so far, though.)

[Doursim]

I've never found a print screen tool (that was free) that has been the same image quality as the good ol' print screen button.

[redisenchanted]

Gadwin print screen has the same quality as far as I can tell.

[alia]

Thank you! I've tried some of them, but the picture quality was pretty horrid every time.
I'll have to try Gadwin.

[anoramic]

I prefer Fraps. Gadwin causes my game to minimize every time I take a snapshot. Fraps gets the picture with a press of a button and automatically saves it to a folder. It has the same quality as the game; it doesn't modify the image in any way. If you save it as .BMP, that is.

http://fraps.com/

[liegenschonheit]

I haven't seen any quality difference in YAFSS, really. No pixel artifacts or weird inclusions in the images or anything like that, it saves a high quality jpg. I've used the resulting screenshots in contests and as preview pics for my own site, and I wouldn't settle for bad quality there.

Here is an example, for anyone who cares to see. This is a completely unedited screenshot taken with YAFSS.
Example Photo

*edit* Also, another reason I prefer YAFSS is because it is extremely lightweight and uses almost no resources. It doesn't cause any lag at all in any game or app I've used it with. The only downside is that if you press printscreen too rapidly in succession, it sometimes misses a shot. If you wait a second or two between captures it doesn't have that problem though.

[lazyviolet]

unzip them all is great and i use irfanview for screenshots.

[SunsetCiti]

Oh wow, finally! A good printscreen program. Thanks for the help!

[RedLove]

I use Gadwin too but I'm tempted to try this YAFSS

Also I got flashgot yesterday and now I need a good download manager? I used Flashget but it was pretty slow or did I do something wrong? Can anybody help?

[Not Paper]

I use IrfanView to get my screen captures. If it's set to take screenshots and save them as bitmaps or PNGs, then the quality is just as good as the print screen button.

It's not a highly touted feature-- I'm not even sure if it's mentioned on the site in more than the changelog-- but it's there.
On the file menu, you go to options > Capture (C), and the rest is mostly self-explanatory.