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Windows Snapshot Maker v2.0 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Copyright (c) 2005-2007 by Alexander Avdonin
NTWind Software - www.ntwind.com
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Introduction
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Windows Snapshot Maker (shortly WinSnap) is a small enhancement utility for 
taking and editing screenshots. It automates all manual work and handle 
technical issues that previously you might perform only with Photoshop or other 
image editors. Initially, WinSnap was designed simply to take snapshots of 
non-rectangular windows, such as windows with XP visual styles, skinned media 
players, etc. Now it is supplemented with professional smoothing shadows, 
coloring effects, canvas transformations, ability to automatically save images 
in various image formats and more. WinSnap can help you easily make small 
thumbnail previews and full-sized screenshots for your web blog and home page, 
visualize technical and educational materials, send reduced-size images through 
e-mail. You will perform professional screenshots immediatelly with one click!


Main features
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[+] Flexible screen capture capabilities
[+] Smoothing shadow effect in Photoshop style
[+] Version 2.0 was especially designed to capture the new Vista UI
[+] Alpha-Channel and PNG/TIFF transparency support
[+] Powerful image processing and basic canvas transformations
[+] Advanced auto-save and auto-copy options
[+] Easy Web publishing and E-Mail sending
[+] Usual keyboard and mouse control (Print Screen replacement)
[+] Configurable External Tools menu to open image editors and optimizers
[+] Small and fast for an image editor, smaller than Paint
[+] Multilingual user interface (Unicode based)


System requirements
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WinSnap was especially developed for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP and newer 
operating systems. All older versions of Windows are not supported! If you are 
running Windows 2000, you need GDI+ installed to use WinSnap. GDI+ is included 
to Windows XP and to the most Microsoft products (such as MS Office). You can 
download GDI+ from Microsoft Download Center (http://download.microsoft.com/).


Reporting problems
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If you encounter problems, please visit http://www.ntwind.com/winsnap/
and download the latest version to see if the issue has been resolved.

To post any comments and bug reports, use certain forums at: 
http://www.ntwind.com/forum/

I ask to use forums of all. But if you wish to contact me personally, you can 
email me at: alexander@ntwind.com


Credits
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Icons used with permission from FOOODs Icons (http://www.foood.net/).


                                              Alexander Avdonin, January 9, 2006
                                                        Saint Petersburg, Russia
