Lightscreen is a lightweight
screen shooting application for
Microsoft Windows
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, used to automate the process of saving and cataloging
screenshots.
It operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple)
hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences. It has no built-in editing or annotation tools. Lightscreen has features to set a delay time and save screenshots in multiple image formats.
A portable version is available
Current Website: https://lightscreen.com.ar/ As of August 20, 2020, Lightscreen is at Version 2.4 and the download is hosted on
GitHub
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. It no longer appears to be using
Sourceforge.net which is still hosting version 1.01 and was last updated 2014-04-15.
See also
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Screenshot
A screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab) is an analog or digital image that shows the contents of a computer display. A screenshot is created by a (film) camera shooting the screen or the operating system
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References
Free software programmed in C++
Screenshot software
Software that uses Qt
Windows-only free software
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