FastStone Capture has several features to acquire desktop screens and video as well (with high compression ratio)
Allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. It also allows you to record screen activities, sound and webcam into MP4 video files.
Here they are relative download links:
- Old versions: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/faststone-capture/
- Freeware 5.3 version: https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775
- Lastest versions: https://www.faststone.org/download.htm (20$ license price)
- Lastest versions: https://www.faststone.org/download.htm (20$ license price)
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- PickPic https://picpick.app/
- PickPic https://picpick.app/
- ShareX which has powerfull settings and it is completely open-source
- LightBox that permit to easily copy and paste images https://lightboxsoftware.com/
- Greenshot that permit to modify and acquire screenshots, saving to folder, in jpg format. Be aware that all steps are automatically done https://getgreenshot.org/