HotShots: grab freehand screen captures

The maim & slop combo has been my favourite screen capture tool on Ubuntu for quite sometime. However, I love improvisation and was looking for a screenshot tool that can also capture a freehand area on the screen by tracking the mouse movement. Shutter is a nice tool but it doesn’t have this particular feature. My search ended with a much more powerful tool – HotShots. It is written in Qt.

Features

• Grab current screen, all monitors (for multi-monitor setup), current window or a part of the desktop.
• Capture a freehand drawn region of the screen.
• Capture window with or without decoration.
• Capture with custom delay.
• Keep or hide mouse cursor.
• Copy snapshot to clipboard.
• Save the screenshot in multiple formats (PNG, JPG, BMP …).
• Automatically save the screenshot to clipboard, disk.
• Automatically scale the screenshot to a given size.
• Use system shortcuts to take a screenshot.
• In-built editor.
• Add automatically some “post-effects” to the screenshot (drop shadow, rotation, border …).
• Add annotation items (text, arrows, rectangle …) to the snapshot.
• Minimize to system tray
• Export edited image in multiple formats (PNG, JPG, BMP …).
• Send image directly to printer or to web service.
• Available for Linux and Windows.

Installation

To install HotShots on Ubuntu:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install hotshots

Webpage: HotShots