Lightscreen Portable 1.0 Released

David Dixon II's picture
Submitted by David Dixon II on July 6, 2009 - 11:08pm

logoLightscreen Portable 1.0 has been released. Lightscreen is an easy to use screenshot tool packaged as a portable app, so you can easily take screenshots of your desktop on the go. This new release updates Lightsreen to the latest version, adds Windows 7 support and has a multilingual installer. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

Features

ScreenshotLightscreen Portable is an easy to use screenshop app with some very simple and easy to use features:

  • Create screenshots of the current desktop (or parts of it)
  • Custom path support (be able to save the screenshot's wherever you desire on your portable device)
  • Save your screenshots in many formats (PNG, JPEG, etc...)
  • Screenshot delay
  • OptiPNG support is added

Learn more about Lightscreen...

New in this Release

Lightscreen has been updated to 1.0, Windows 7 support has been added and an improved installer is included.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Lightscreen Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Lightscreen Portable is available for immediate download from the Lightscreen Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

John T. Haller's picture

Thanks for your work on this, David. I made the OptiPNG fix we spoke about.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

mentioned someplace here on the page that it now supports OptiPNG?

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

David Dixon II's picture

You are the best! Hope everyone enjoys.

Na na na, come on!

This is in my top two portable support apps (with KeePass) and top five overall (also Firefox, VLC, and Notepad++). I might use it less than once a week, but when I do need it, I'm glad it's there.

I use the heck out of it! I ended up using the portable version so much, that I installed it. Plus the installable version hit 1.0 and it took a little bit for this site to get it. This is a very nice app. I use it every day.

this app is great, i just have 2 issues

1. The date filename should be editable because as it is now it saves files in a screenshot.dd-mm-yyyy hh.mm.ss.jpg filename which doesn't get sorted alphabetically. It should be customizable so we could use something like yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.jpg.

2. It doesn't seem to keep the changed path for storing the screenshots after restart if you choose a path outside the drive you have lightscreen in. This may seem non useful for people who only use portable apps in a flash drive but as for me, i use them normally in my pc so i would like to choose where they're being stored.

If it wasn't for this i would completely stop using fscapture (well, it also does video capture but thats another issue...) and only use this one

Well, FSCapture is shareware and i prefer to keep my apps free. Also, i was having some problems capturing ingame screenshots with it...
Lightscreen is just simpler as in only doing what it is supposed to do: save screenshots.
Anyway, i've tried Lightscreen for a while but because of the issues i previously posted i've switched to PicPick (portable version also available here). It's similar to FSCapture and it's free.

Darkbee's picture

The tool is almost as good as useless for me without this option working correctly Sad I hope it gets fixed.

Options - Optionen

General - Allgemein
Hotkeys - Hotkeys
Options - Optionen
Advanced - Erweitert

General - Allgemein:
File - Datei
Browse For Folder - Verzeichnis auswählen
Select where you want to save the screenshots - Speicherort für Screenshots wählen
Make New Folder - Neuen Ordner erstellen
Directory - Verzeichnis
Filename - Dateiname
screenshot - Screenshot (commonly known - would keep this in english)
(number) - (Nummer)
(date) - (Datum)
Format - Format
Delay - Verzögerung
1 second - 1 Sekunde
2-n seconds - 2-n Sekunden

Run Lightscreen at system startup - Starte Lightscreen mit Windows
Hide the main window - Hauptfenster verstecken or Hauptfenster ausblenden

Restore Defaults - Standard wiederherstellen
OK - OK
Cancel - Abbruch

Hotkeys - Hotkeys:
Capture the Screen - Bildschirm erfassen
Capture a window - Fenster erfassen
Capture a screen area - Bereich erfassen

Open the program window - Öffne das Programmfenster
Open the directory - Öffne das Verzeichnis

Print - Druck
Alt Print - Alt Druck
Type your hotkey - Drücke Deinen Hotkey
PgUp - Bild hoch or Seite hoch
PgDn - Bild runter or Seite runter
(there should exist translation for all the keys somewhere on the net already)

Options - Optionen:
Show a system tray icon - Zeige Symbol im System Tray or Zeige Symbol in Windows Task Bar
Hide Lightscreen while taking screenshots - Verstecke Lightscreen bei Screenshoterfassung
Periodically check for updates - Periodisch nach Updates suchen
Magnify around the mouse in Area Mode - Lupe um die Maus im Bereichsmodus benutzen (does this feature work actually?)
Language - Sprache
More information.. - Weitere Informationen..
Notify with - Benachrichtigen mit
Tray icon Popup - Task Bar Popup or Tray Icon Popup
Sound cue - Tonsignal
Screenshot quality - Screenshot Qualität

Advanced - Erweitert
Choose where and how to save each screenshot ("Save as") - Speicherort und -art für jeden Screenshot einzeln festlegen ("Speichern unter")
Copy the screenshot to the clipboard - Screenshot in die Zwischenablage kopieren
Include the curser in the screenshot - Mauszeiger im Screenshot einfügen
Grad only the current monitor - Nur aktuellen Bildschirm erfassen
Optimize PGN screenshots (OptiPNG not found) - PNG Screenshots optimieren (OptiPGN nicht gefunden)
Warn when hiding without a tray icon - Beim Ausblenden ohne Tray Icon warnen or Beim Verstecken ohne Tray Icon warnen
Check Updates Now - Updates jetzt suchen
About Lightscreen - Über Lightscreen

Updater - Updater
Checking for Updates - Suche nach Updates
No new versions available - Keine neueren Vesionen verfügbar

Close - Schließen

Hide - Verstecken or Ausblenden
Quit - Quit or Beenden

/cheers

Simeon's picture

I sent the dev a german translation a few weeks ago - lets hope he includes it in the next version Smile

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Honestly I am not sure if "Dev" ist still working on his project. Last Update was about 8 month ago =/
Or did you mean the original Devs of Lightscreen? (not portable)

Simeon's picture

the original Lightscreen Dev. His last work on it was November 2009 so I hope he is still working on it. There hasn't been and new version of the portable version of this App because there hasn't been any release since last summer.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate