ScreenSeize lets you capture and save any portion of the visual image of your Windows screen. You may want to do this to create step-by-step software demonstrations, display examples of Web pages you've designed, or capture a program error to help a vendor diagnose a problem. After you've captured a screen image you can copy it to the Windows clipboard or save it as a Windows BMP ("bitmap") file.
ScreenSeize saves the screen image in the form of a bitmap, which is a rectangular array of bits that correspond to the pixels of a display device. The standard file format for a bitmap image under Windows is called BMP, which is the filename extension for bitmap files.

To get a first look how ScreenSeize works, select the Capture! item on the menu. Selecting this item initiates a timer delay. You have five seconds to arrange the screen as you like it before ScreenSeize captures an image of the screen. To signal the countdown, ScreenSeize beeps once per second and displays the remaining seconds in its title bar. After capturing the entire screen image to a bitmap, ScreenSeize displays the bitmap in its window. You can save the bitmap file or copy it to the Windows clipboard.

ScreenSeize includes several options. You can specify whether the capture area is the whole screen, an application window, a dialog box, an area you select with the mouse, or an object on the screen. You can trigger a screen capture by several different capture methods -- the timer, a hot key, or a mouse button click. Several other capture options let you specify whether you want the mouse cursor in the image, or to hide the window during the capture. Several automatic save options are handy when capturing many images in sequence. ScreenSeize saves all your preferred options in a ScreenSeize.ini file in the same directory as ScreenSeize.exe.

Note: ScreenSeize cannot save any image on your screen that bypasses the memory buffer on your video display board. This includes a "video in a window" feature that is found on some video boards used for videotape editing, and also video boards that accomodate DVD players.