Review: CaptureEze Pro

Today that is no longer the case. A product called CaptureEze Pro stands far above most other screen capture programs because of its many options, and one option in particular.

The biggest option allows users to capture not only screens, but web pages of any size, whether all of it is showing on the screen or not. When the capture "hot key" is pressed, the program allows the user to scroll below the screen to grab as much or all of the page as needed, such as the example on the right.

This makes CaptureEze Pro so valuable and useful that, if it did nothing else, it might well be worth its $39.95 price tag. But there is a lot more depth to the program.

It all begins with the CaptureEze Pro interface, which is more graphic and far better than most screen capture programs. The user is immediately given a choice of available options, which together enable the capture of a page in several combinations. These options include the usual capture and preview, capture and print, and capture and save.

Once that choice is made, the user is then taken to a screen which allows them to designate the type of area to be captured.

The user then selects the activate button and goes to the graphic they wish to capture. Pressing the "Print Screen" button does the actual capture.

Once grabbed, CaptureEze Pro has the ability to let users edit the captured item for color, cropping, rotating, mirroring, and printing as large as 4 pages x 4 pages. Further, those functions are available for as many as six captures per page.

Other features for use on captures include borders, filters, masks, shadows, frames, time/date stamping and positioning on a page for printing. Also provided is the ability to replace colors, which can sometimes come in handy to save the quality of a graphic.

From within the program, the user can print up to 36 thumbnails per page, along with selected, detailed information. The program also supports DOS capture, and high-resolution cameras and scanners.

Another advantage of CaptureEze Pro is its ability to handle a wide variety of graphic formats, making it equally adept as a graphics converter program. It can also zoom graphics as low as 6 percent and as high as 1600 percent.

The program is not difficult to operate. An experienced graphics person can expect a 10-15 minute learning period, maybe more for getting the fine-tuning aspects of the program placed into the memory bank. Novice users may require more time to work on the fine-tuning features, but screen captures alone are a snap.