AKA Riptide FurseFred Delventhal is AKA Riptide Furse and is AKA krossbow

I like to try different tools all of the time. It’s an addiction. Anyway, I thought I would share five tools that you can use to grab a screen shot r capture from a web page to use when you post to your DEN blog.

Kwout (quote)
http://kwout.com

Kwout offers a couple of ways to activate the screen capture process. One is via a Firefox extension and the other, the one I use most often, is by bookmarklet.

Click the bookmarklet and it loads a copy of the web page you were just on. Select the part you want to capture by dragging to highlight the selection. Then click Cut Out and you get sent to the next page. There you get to choose what to do with your capture. You can post to your blog using the embed code or post to several photo sharing sites or email it to your self or others.

Here is a sample from just posting it to your blog.

kwout | Firefox add-on via kwout

Screengrab

http://www.screengrab.org/

Is another Firefox extension. It puts an icon on your status bar at the bottom of your screen. You click this and have the option of copying or saving the complete page, the visible portion of the page or selecting the part of the page you want.

Here is an example of one that I saved and then uploaded to Flickr to use here.

Abduction

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

This is a nice neat little Firefox extension. On any page you only have to right click and choose Save Page as Image…
You then get a new window where you can make your selection. Save the image and you can upload it to a photosharing web site for putting it in your blog.

Here is a sample from Abduction.

WebShots
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6168

This is another Firefox extension. You activate this one by going to View-Sidebars-Webshots. It takes a screenshoto of the whole page. You can then save it. Then upload to your favorite photosharing site and use the pics in your blog.

Picnikhttp://www.picnik.com

I saved my personal favorite for last. Picnik is an image editing program that works online. It’s integrated with Flickr so editing images on Flickr is easy. They too have a Friefox extension. When you are on the page you want an image from just right click and select Send Page to Picnik…
Then when you are in Picnik you can crop or resize or use any of the many tools they have there to edit and perfect your image. Then you can send it again to one of the many photo sharing sites an post to your blog.

So what do you think? Give these a try or if you use something different that I should look at please let me know.

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