Reviewer, 2008-03-24 06:50:00

Vista, XP, Win2000, Win2003 compatible screen capture and l graphic editor program.

Pros: PrintKey-Pro is a Vista compatible system tray-based program that can capture your screen or any part of it with the press of the PrintScrn key, or any other key that is configured.

Once captured, one can adjust the captured picture`s brightness, contrast, color balance, size, color invert, or convert to grayscale or black and white. Pictures can be edited, using the built in image editor. There’s an advanced featured part to the editor also. So choose the features you want to use. Multiple image formats, such as JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF and PCX are supported. There’s a wide choice in capture possible. Choose to have a rectangular area or a circular one with a specified size. You can choose to have the cursor or not to. The standard editor provides a whole series of options such as a series of color options or have grayscale, inverted colors, horizontal/vertical mirror effects, embossed effect or 90degree turned. Sharpening or blurring is available as is resizing. Color adjustments, contrast, brightness or saturation adjustments are available too. The advanced editor option provides a whole lot of filters and effects additionally. You can capture the full screen or just the active window, the client area, or any rectangular or circular area with or without the cursor. You can also insert text and free hand draw on the picture. You can preview the picture, add a date, user info, and any text you choose before printing on the selected printer. Page setting options are available as well. The interface is simple and easy to use and easy to learn too.

Cons: The program is set to operate as from the system tray. With the nice interface that this program has it would be nice to come as the normal interface with the option to reduce it to the system tray.

Overall this application is a rated at 4 stars.