FireShot Features
Browsers and other programs supported:
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome
- Seamonkey
- Thunderbird
Capture modes:
- Capturing entire web page: Captures whole web page and displays it in editor.
- Capturing visible area: Capturing visible portion of webpage.
- Capturing selection.
- Capturing browser window: Capturing browser window and its contents.
- Capturing all tabs (Firefox only).
Selection tools:
- Area selection tool: provides rectangular and elliptic selections for further graphical processing.
Graphical tools which work with selections:
A combination of these effects can be applied to the image for getting more illustrative results. Following screenshot shows Gaussian blur, Grayscale and Glowing edges effects sequentally applied to picture.

Vector instruments:
Vector instruments have been developed to help user quickly and effectively annotate captured screens. They’re placed in a separate layer and can be modified/removed at any time.
Well we've got a capture. How about storing it?
Screenshots can be stored in the following formats:
- PDF (Portable Document Format).
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format: provides lossless way to store graphical data. In addition, PNG structure allows saving additional user-defined information. This feature is used for storing vector objects and other editor info inside PNG.
- JPEG (Joint Picture Expert Group) format creates mostly less file size, but worse picture quality than PNG does.
- BMP (Bitmap Picture) format creates good quality picture, but its size is bigger than PNG and JPEG practically.
- GIF (Graphics Interchange format) - less size, less quality.
- ZIP file: all program output described earlier can be put to ZIP. This can dramatically reduce output file size.
What can we do with the captures more?
- Captures can be saved to disk.
- Captures can be copied to clipboard.
- Captures can be sent by e-mail.
- Captures can be opened in another editor.
- Captures can be printed.
- Captures can be uploaded to Easycaptures, Flickr, Picasa, ImageShack or to custom HTTP or FTP server.
See demo...