Photobie Forum

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Photobie support Sreen capture in two ways,

The first way is to use the notification icon on right bottom corner of your
window. Right click on the Photobie icon and you will get a menu to let you choose capturing shape. Then you drag on the screen to get exact region to capture finished by press "Enter" key. The captured image goes to Photobie main editing window, it also goes to clipboard, so you can paste onto other applications such as MS word and powerpoint.
Check following picture for an illustration:

The second way is to use the Screen Capture hotkeys, you can set up to 8 hotkeys. Simply click on main menu >> Screen Capture >> set screencapture hotkeys, you will get the configuration form as following:

The autoscroll screen capture is different than other screen capture softwares. It is more adaptive, it allows you to scroll the screen down by youself and capture multiple portions for the active window you just scrolled, and merge them together automatically (Yes, as you can imagine ,the merge algorithm is heavy duty since it does lots of image comparation. So be patient to wait few seconds for final result when you capturing many shots for large active window)

Here is how the adaptive autoscroll works.
1. setup the screen capture hotkeys and set one hotkey to be able to capture active window and check the autoscroll flag. Note you should uncheck the capture cursor checkbox for using autoscroll correctly.

2. get to the web page or whatever active window you want to capture.
scroll to the portion you want capture and press the screencapture hotkey you just set up; continue this for capture more portions. When you finish, simply press ctrl + Q. Photobie will then assemly captured screenshots of the active window into one image. It take care of the overlapped portions, so you don't have to adjust any while scrolling.

3. switch to Photobie program, then you will see the final image consists of multiple section of scroll active window. It may take a while (few seconds before you see the final image if you are capturing many shots for large active window.

Note: due to some active window contains horizontal scrollbar, Photobie autoscroll may be 19 pixel shorter than actual active window.

Enjoy Photobie!
--Cheng

screen capture tool user · Guest

:D :D :D
Great! I have been looking for the autoscroll screen capture tool for sometime, and this so called