Screen Capture

Capture Types

You can capture a Window, a Region, a Fixed Region, or the Full Screen.

Screen capture in Montage:
Select Capture Window, Capture Region, or Capture Fixed Region, or Capture Full Screen, in the File menu.
The captured image is inserted on the canvas.

Window

To capture a single window, follow this procedure:

Select Window in the Capture menu or hit a selected hot key.
Move the mouse pointer to the desired window and click a mouse button.
What is captured depends on the way you point at the window.

Point inside the window
Capture window, excluding its frame.
Point at the window's frame
Capture window, including its frame.

Point at the desktop
Capture the full screen.
The selected window is captured and becomes the current image in EasyCopy.

Region

To capture a region (any rectangular area on the screen), follow this procedure:

Select Region in the Capture menu or hit a selected hot key.
Move the mouse pointer to one corner of desired region and click a mouse button.
Move the mouse pointer to the other corner of the region and click a mouse button.
The selected region is captured and becomes the current image in EasyCopy.

Fixed Region

To capture a fixed region (a region of fixed size) follow this procedure:

Set the dimensions of the desired region in the Capture Options dialog.
Select Fixed Region in the Capture menu.
A rectangle of the specified size appears, for example 300X300 pixels.
Move the rectangle to cover the desired region using the mouse, and click to capture the area.

Full Screen

Select Full Screen in the Capture menu or hit a selected hot key.

No further action is required. The full screen is captured and becomes the current image in EasyCopy.

(or the Repeat command in the Capture menu) to repeat the previous capture operation. This is useful when you want to capture the same window or region a number of times, for example to show the progress of a process in a sequence of images.
You can also configure a hot key to perform this function.

Auto Capture

Select Auto Capture in the Capture menu or hit a selected hot key.

Toggle on Window, Region, Fixed Region or Full Screen and the selected capture profile will stay selected until another is chosen.

Under Options... you can set up Capture Rate and decide when the autocapture should stop.

Capture Options

Use this command to setup your screen capture preferences.

The command opens the Capture Options dialog.