bello il vs programma, peccatto che non ce il comandi cattura finestra (barra spaziatrice) se ce anche questo diventa fantastico !

Gran bel proggramma, complimenti e grazie!

Hi! i don't understand this language, but i hope it's possible to give request for future features here.

When i used windows, i used an application called imageshack quick shot. It took pictures of your screen, but it also automatically uploaded the pics to imageshack. if this is easy to code, i think a lot of people would be glad. i've been looking for this for mac for a long time.

if you didn't understand a shit of my crappy language, you can mail me at wilhel1812 [ at ] gmail

hello wilhel. Maybe you've not noticed but this article is available in English too, through the British flag in the upper right corner.
Anyway, we thank you for your feedback. We'll investigate the matter for a future release.

Thank you for this very useful program....
I insalled it, and enjoy it already

Literally yesterday I decided that I needed a way to take a picture of my screen every 5 minutes so that I would be able to better remember my activities so that I could accurately bill my clients. I searched the Internet but all screen capture programs were either for older Macs or cost a lot of money. Then today I saw a link to your program on The Unofficial Apple Weblog. That is kismet! Thank you for a wonderful, easy program!

doesn't seem to work on multiple monitors
am I missing how to do this?

bien ...
mais un plus qui démarquerait des autres utilitaires de ce type, serait de pouvoir lancer des captures multiples dans un un rectangle ...

Thanks for your feedbacks!
We'll probably add support for multiple monitors on the next release.
We were already thinking about using rectangles for the timed shots, so it will be a feature to look for in the next release too.

Great app, thanks! Here are a few ideas for the future:

Customizable keyboard shortcuts for the screen captures, so we can avoid mousing through your menus for each capture.

Allow the capture sound to be set by the user (I'd prefer a quick "click" to that clanking sound).

Remember the rectangle from the last capture, so if you're capturing the same spot repeatedly, the user doesn't have to keep re-drawing it.

Thanks Scott. We were already thinking about the "previous rectangle" feature. We'll also keep your other suggestions in high consideration!

Everyone: we're finding a new hosting solution for our projects as this unexpected popularity has outrun our current server's limits. In the meanwhile please do use the MacUpdate's mirror they are kindly offering us.

Love the way this app works. I have one request which is a preference to prompt for filename after each capture.

Thanks!

no problem!

Very valuable program. It appears that images captured to the clipboard are only in .tiff format which can't be used by a program I am using (ScreenSteps). Would it be possible to have a preference item for the clipboard format? Thanks.

How fast is this capable of taking screenshots? Because I set the multiple-shots mode it to 1/8 second intervals, and it wasn't keeping up.

@Jessica: I've just finished studying the problem, the option will surely be in the next version.

@Andrew: the gap you put is between the end of one shot and the start of the next one, otherwise if too short it would clog your machine. On my machine (a G4 1.67Ghz 1440x900) a shot takes between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds. The feature is actually thought to work in medium-to-long intervals (like 5 seconds to 5 minutes): when you put a very short interval the performance totally depends on your system's power. Also note that while choosing a compressed format (jpg) increases the time spent to compress the image, the data written to disk is much less.

If you add the prompt for filename, it would make a great app a perfect app!!!

I'll look for the MacUpdate mirror. It would definitely help your bandwidth to have a direct download link for various mirrors on this page.

I found this application from the Apple pages. Thanks!

I found the page on Versiontracker for this application.

www.versiontracker.com

Darryl, thanks for the link, I put it up myself and it's not pointing at any other mirror than our very one. The only other mirror apart from ours tha I know of is that of MacUpdate.
Anyway, our local mirror (on 110mb) should work perfectly now.

Thanks for a very useful piece of software.
The long interval between multiple shots is exactly what I was looking for.

Would like to be able to make multiple shots of a specific part of the screen.
Start multiple shots inside rect>

thanks for your feedback George. As a matter of fact we're already working on that feature for the next version :)

Why does the time vary between shots when using "multiple shots"? When I set the "multiple shots every..." preference to 5 seconds and timestamp the images (with the ":t" setting in preferences), most images are 5 seconds apart, but some are 6 seconds. The same thing happens if I set the preference to 10 seconds: most images are 10 seconds apart, but some are 11. My CPU in Activity Monitor is fine--never more than 15% (on a MacBookPro, 2Ghz, 1M RAM).

I wanted to take the images from InstantShot! and make them into a movie using QuickTime's "Open Image Sequence..." command, but InstantShot!'s multiple shot timing doesn't seem regular enough to do it.

Even so, this is a handy application!

thanks for your feedback. Please read the previous comment "re: clipboard & quickness". You're actually setting an interval between the end of a shot (grab & save to disk with compression) and the start of the next one, so the timing can't never be very precise.
We're considering to put an option for "exact timings" but I think it may be dangerous for very short intervals - it may very well hang your computer or expose unexpected problems. And anyway I guess that really exact timings would be utopian to achieve no matter what.

Im from brazil! and i use stant shot!
Geeting from brazil!
www.rfdslabs.com.br
Cya

Lovely app - and I second Scott's suggestions above.
I'm trying to capture a rectangle of iTune's File menu - any idea how I could do that?
Cheers,

Meromo.

Salve

scusate, ma come si fa a cambiare la lingua del programma?

Grazie

@Vame: le lingue sono disponibili dalle informazioni sull'applicazione da finder: c'è una linguetta "lingue" dove sono spuntate le varie lingue: il sistema sceglie quella con la priorità più alta in base alle preferenze del sistema. Puoi cambiare le priorità per tutto il sistema nel pannello "Internazionale" delle preferenze, oppure puoi disattivare le lingue a priorità più alta di quella desiderata togliendo le spunte dal pannello di informazioni della specifica applicazione.

i was very happy with instant shot until i downloaded the new version!!!
lovely app indeed...
this new version has an irritating pop up window below my screen when i select "shot inside a rec" option as i always do.
it says;
"click ona window to capture it or click and drag to define a generic rectangle.
right click to use the last rectangle.
press esc or cod- to cancel the operation"
OK, thats fine, i learned a lot from this, thank u; but there is no way to make it disappear!!!
i dont want this to appear in my shots, and it does!!!
i looked everywhere for a clue to turn it off but there seems to be no option for this.
i am a mac user, if this makes a difference in your comments.
please help...
thanx....naz

@naz: I'm sorry you experience this problem. It really isn't supposed to happen and you are the first one to say it. Does also the red frame around a selected window or the size tooltip of the generic rectangle appear in the final image?
I'll look into it tomorrow. Thanks for your feedback.

Great application. I found it as a result of a recommendation on the MacBreak Weekly podcast this week.

I really like the functionality provided by the application and it will be a useful tool to have available when required. I do find the icon in the menu bar to be over-intrusive compared to the others in the bar - Virtue Desktops, Slim Battery Monitor Menu Meters and then some from Apple. My preference would be to have the icon smaller and the lines thinner.

Thanks for your feedback, we'll ponder your idea for the next release!

veramente bello. grazie. è utilissima la possibilità di poter selezionare una parte dello schermo. lo consiglio a tutti.

Would be great if you add the ability to add edge effects like drop shadow, torn edge, wave edge, saw edge, sharktooth edge, and beveled edge instead of just the plain straight edge.

Your InstantShot! is certainly one of the most useful Mac utilities I have ever come across. Congratulations and thank you for saving me time and for making life easier.

Congrats for an extremely useful and well built piece of software. Many thanks for keeping it free for all of us!

How can I automate Instant Shot from the (Mac Terminal) command line?
What flags are supported on the command line? If no flags are supported, what are the defaults used by Instant Shot via command line?

If this is not yet supported, it would be a great feature, so that the application itself can be scripted with a shell script, for automated uses.

Awesome app and very useful! The one feature I would love to see is the ability to take a screen shot and have it auto-scroll to capture the whole window. The Windows-only program Snagit does this and I would love to have this capability on the Mac.

Thanks!

InstantShot! is really a perfect balance of features. I loved being able to have it launch GraphicConverter after each capture, making it easy to edit.

Now, I need to find a program that makes it easy to add call-outs and highlights.

I'd prefer you didn't put those features into InstantShot!

Great job!

Check out ImageWell to add call-out balloons, shadows and other basic effects to screens, then automatically upload them to the site you specify.

What a great program, thanks for making this. Is it possible to extend the functionality to work with multiple screens?

I would like to take multiple shots of all screens simultaneously, either to a single file for each shot or separate files for each screen pr shot..

in case someone else wants to do what I ask above, i found a way - just make a copy of the app and start both, so you have two icons in your menu bar. then just set each of them to work on its own screen, and other folder etc..

voila

you need a reasonably powerful computer

@SuperGMM: thanks, I'll try to add some features like those you ask for in the next version.
I'm sorry development has slowed down recently.

Thanks for your nice appication. There are two wishes:

Is it possible to optional add an preview icon to each screenshot?

I sometimes make screenshots in black images or movies but as the InstantShot cursor is also black I just can't see where I am to start. The workaround is to make a bigger screenshot and crop it in another application, but maybe you could do one of these features:
- show guidelines that cover the whole screen (like a crosshair)
- or add the ability to edit the starting point of the rechtangle (eg. by pressing a key combination before releasing the mouse)

thanks

@arthur: thanks for your feedback.

As a matter of fact the feature to resize the rectangle after the initial choice is already done and will be included in the next release.

As for the thumbnail it can be nice but it can also take some more cpu, and that's quite a nuisance especially when you're taking multiple screenshots. I'll think about it tho. In the meantime you can go to the Finder's display options for the folder in which you save the screenshots and enable just for that folder the "preview" mode: that way any image will get a thumbnail as its icon.

Thanks for the quick answer.

A short explanation for the thumbnail request: I use custom icon for all my folders cause it looks good and it's easier for me to find the right folder. When I eg. want to get the appropiate icon for my "fun video" folder I take a screenshot of scene of my favorite movie in that folder. The finder's preview mode wouldn't help here as it produces no icon to copy/paste.

I see the point with the cpu so I#d like an option in the preferences to add an icon.

Of course I could use third party software, but you know I'm a bit lazy...

or you can use OUR party software, FastIcns :)
The problem would be that you still would have to do copy+paste from icon to icon. So that would be the same number of operations of opening the image with Preview, copying it to the clipboard and pasting it over the icon in the Finder's info panel of the desired folder.

BTW as I said, I'll think about that feature for the next release.

Hi there, i just installed and tried your app. It's awesome!!

One thing that could be nice though is a small option to have the image uploaded to an FTP server... But without it's just as good :)

Hello everybody and thanks for this little but helpfully application.

Does it possible to get a snapshoot with the same file. In fact, i want to get a periodic snapshoot of my server but i need to make a single file with the same name, not multiple file with a name and a number as extension.

Thanks

@Gollhy: for now you could set a simple postprocessing script that mvs created files to a single file name.

@SHRIKEE: that is already possible via postprocessing scripts. It's not the simplest solution but I'll probably explain it in more details soon or later. I'm not sure on how to implement the upload directly in the application: it would contain too many options (ftp / http upload, usernames and passwords, proxies…) and I'm not really sure I want to add all that burden to such a simple application. My original idea for that was to make the user leverage another application or a script for that in some way. I'll work more on that in the future.

Capturing cursors does not seem to work (selected Capture Cursors Image)

Timer recording w/selection to Clipboard only worked every other time, had to do twice to get into Clipboard.

Looks like a nice program otherwise, easy to use and lots features-

:)

@tester: thanks for your feedback. However I use the timed shot in a rectangle with the cursor grabbing enabled and a delay of 5 seconds all the time and you are the first to report such problems. Which Mac model and screen resolution are you using? How much delay have you set for the grab? If you can, please send us an email detailing the situation in which the problems occur. The email address is in the footer.

Thanks for the software! Would it be possible to add a print function to the app so that a hotkey could be configured to spit out the selected screenshot to the printer?

@Steve: thanks for the nice suggestion, I'll think about it.
In the meantime you can get that functionality like this (sorry it's a bit technical):
- create somewhere a text file called (for example) print.sh, with this content (two lines of code):


#!/bin/sh
open -a /Applications/Utilities/Printer Setup Utility.app "$1"


- from the terminal give it execution priviledges with the command (issued from its directory):

chmod 744 print.sh

- open InstantShot!'s preferences, go to System and add print.sh to the scripts to execute after a file is created by InstantShot!

- make sure to check the boxes to execute the script in the situations you want to use it

Now whenever you use InstantShot! to create a file on disk (not when you're copying it to the clipboard), it will be sent to the (default) printer too.

before each space in "Printer Setup Utility.app" you have to put a backslash, like this (hope it renders):

Printer\ Setup\ Utility.app

Great tool. Freesnap seems to have finally given up the ghost and this is the best replacement tool I've seen. A couple requests:

1) It would be nice to have an option to "Always copy to clipboard" in addition to showing in preview, with the copy being saved in the same format the file is saved as -- just as Freesnap has always done.

2) It would be wonderful to have an option for taking "another shot" upon command of the last rectangular area that was previously captured.

Thanks so much!

@Ropher: thanks for your feedback
1) do you mean an option to save to clipboard a screenshot while also saving it on disk?
2) When you're asked for a rectangle, a single right mouse button click means "use the last rectangle".

Is there a way to "hide" this dialog box when taking a screen capture..? Even though the warning is transparent and at the bottom of my screen it is often difficult to see exactly what your are shooting if you are doing a large screen capture.

Love the app....THX...!!!

@PSA: thanks for your feedback. The option to show it or not will be present in the next version.

Thank you for great program.
I installed InstantShot! on Leopard, the program did start, could set preferences, and worked multiple shots mode (I didn't try normal taking screenshots). Seemed to be working fine.
But when restarting the program, it couldn't showing menu from menubar, the program had stopped. It's still working multiple shots.

Sorry for my poor English, I hope if possible works fine on Leopard. Thank you.

@monta: at the moment I've no Leopard to test it on and I've not received any other feedback about this problem so I don't know how to answer :)
Let me understand: if you launch it once it works well but if you close it and then re-open it, the icon doesn't show up in the menubar?

Thank you for quick answer.
When restarts the program, icon shows up in the menubar and works with multiple shots mode (images are saved). But if clicking the icon, it's going to go away.

How do I take a single screen grab of a page that scrolls below the fold rather than what is visible. Great app by the way.

Hello. Excuse me many times, I noticed that problem is occuring during the multiple shot mode. If the multiple shot mode is disabled, the program works fine, can set the preferences and take normal screenshots. When the multiple shot mode is enabled, the program takes screenshots normaly. But if I click the menubar icon, the program will stop.

I shoot the screencast if it's slightly difficult to explain in English.
You can see it here -> screencast.com
Thanks again.

thanks monta for the screencast: it seems like a bug on Leopard… I'll see it as soon as I install Leopard, in the next few days.

@Blake: unfortunately that's not possible on OSX, as scrollpanes are private objects of the applications. That means that without tampering with private objects and / or private APIs I see no way to do that in a reliable way.

Great application! very useful. Thank you! It would be a great feature to have a mode where you specify a fixed capture rectangle size in pixels (x and y). Then you just move the rectangle around to frame the portion of the screen that you want to capture. I often do screen captures for presentations and need all my images to be exactly the same size (ex.: 1024 x 768 pixels). The function I am suggesting would be great for this. When the 'fixed rectangle' function is invoked again, the previous rectangle position should be shown. The user would have the option to move it or simply hit return to grab. The x,y size of the rectangle would be entered in the preferences. Thanks again for the great work.

@Kurt: that's a feature already coming in the next version, stay tuned :)

Great! Glad to hear this functinality will be available soon. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

Sorry if this has been addressed before. Is there a way of using "shoot inside a rectangle" and capturing the Finder or Safari windows with the full color close/minimize/expand buttons? I always get grayed out buttons when I try to capture with the rectangle option.

What a fabulous program, thank you so much! I intend to use it for images in enhanced Podcasts and would find it quite helpful if these two features could please be in the next version.

* only save changed images: this would compare the previous image taken with the current image. If the same, then no file would be saved. This would take into account the mouse cursor being hidden / shown (I usually hide it.) Only saving changed images would save a lot of disk space for multiple shot sessions with short capture times.

* image sharpening (with slider to control sharpening amount): this would make reduced-screen size images crisper and smaller text more readable.

Keep up the great work!

@Alex: I usually do that with the timed shot in a rectangle. After I select the rectangle I give myself 5 seconds to enable the windows that I want to grab and to put the cursor where I want. You could put it over the buttons to enable them. Sometimes it can be necessary to click on another window (or the desktop) and again on the window to enable, if it was the current window when calling InstantShot!.

@Michael: I'll consider both your interesting suggestions. At least the first one can be done with some effort using the script-after-grab facility, anyway :).

Thanks for that tip. i was ready to look for a new screen capture app.

Hi,

I just love it that InstantShot creates files with continuous names instead of taking the lowest number/file name available. If would be great if it kept going forever...

-- GR

Just noticed the timestamp file name options, very cool! Having continuous file numbers is no longer a big deal.

Question: is there an option to make object captures have a transparent bg? The area behind the rounded top corners of windows and the expanded rectangle space to be invisible.

Is it at all possible not to have a menubar icon there? Just have it running as sort of a background application that you can bring up the preferences with by going to the app in the applications folder? Know what I mean? I'm trying to save space up there, Ive got so much shit in my menubar now....

If I invoke InstantShot's window capture mode, the current window becomes inactive. Quite weird.

@Gabriel: that's needed because the choice is made on a InstantShot window. If you enable Universal Access' services the window on which you click should be also brought in front before the capture. The best way is to use the timed capture with a short delay (5-6 sec) in which you can give focus to whatever you like.

Hmm, the mouse cursor isn't visible on my Intel MacBook, though the same version of InstantShot does this just fine on my PPC Mac. Both are running 10.4.11 - any ideas what's going on there?
Otherwise many thanks for a great tool!

This is a great ap, Thanks!

can you capture multiple image areas simultaneously?
I need to capture up to six images in different areas of each page as I flip through several pages. The images always appear in the same place on each page.

thanks!

I'm an enthusiastic user since January 2007 (I have the 7th comment here). I LOVE this program, and the recent changes have made a great thing even better. The two custom sizes, and the various abilities to adjust the overlay rectangle before taking the screenshot, are fantastic. They make even a tedious process like taking a hundred screenshots of images into a very easy one. This is excellent software. Software I would pay for tomorrow if you started charging. It's almost too good to give away free! Thanks for all your work.

What happened . . . all of a sudden every time I try to take a screen shot I get an error message. I simply says "Error saving the screenshot!"

Any ideas of what is wrong? I'm using InstantShot 2.5 on a Dual 2 GHz G5 with 3.5 GB RAM.
Thanks

are you saving to clipboard or to file? does it work in the other way or with another file/clipboard format (the clipboard format can be changed in the preferences)?
Also check that your disk is not full and try changing the output folder.

I loved it !!!because its simple and fast and lite .. dont need to open a new app to take the screenshots

Great for iMovie. Use it a lot.

The programs icon only shows in the menubar when finder is open. It disappears with any other app. How can I have it permanently in the menubar?

Mac OSX 10.4.1

InstantShot unfortunately gets broken when updating to Leopard 10.5.2

about the icon: it should disappear only when the menus are too many and OSX decides to hide some icons to make space for them... in any case in the preferences you can set up keybindings for most functions so that you can use them without accessing the menu from the icon in the menu bar.

@Stephen: what is broken? it seems to work fine to me... Do you get a crash? if that's so, send the report over by email please.

I was getting errors instead of captures. I quite InstantShot, restarted, and relaunched and it is working now!

Utilisateur de cette application depuis quelques mois, je suis très satisfait de pouvoir enfin capturer des menus sans encombre et nourrir mon site web beaucoup plus vite grâce à l'option rectangle…
De plus cette application est en français, ce qui ne gâte rien…
Vous pouvez lire sur le lien qui suit un résumé de mon utilisation…
www.urbanbike.com
Bravo encore pour l'ergonomie et l'intelligence des options proposées…

was great, then stopped working. this happened after i had to reinstall os x using 'archive and install' option using 10.4.3 disks. now get "error saving the screenshot".

@Jean-cristhophe: thanks for your feedback :)

@Meme: have you checked that the output folder is correct and still existing? Maybe it has changed after you archived and installed the system...

not sure what the output folder is but assuming its the 'path' then its still set at desktop as before. still not working after fiddling around altering settings and stuff -shame, i liked it.

@meme: yes is the path you set on the first page... It's quite strange, I never heard problems like these. Try closing the application, removing the preferences' file at ~/Library/Preferences/net.digitalwaters.InstantShot.plist and restarting it and setting the preferences anew. Thanks for your feedback anyway.

hi, i tried that didnt work sorry. i also deleted instantshot/prefs and downloaded again. still the same. works fine otherwise, just doesnt take screenshots.

Great program, I love it ! Thanks a lot, go on please :)

This is truly amazing. We use our Mac for documentation and technical writing and it is great to have a software application like this. Perfect 10!

Each time I reboot, the "Show Background Window" is checked. I have to click it to get rid of the white background. Shouldn't it remember that i have unchecked this setting when restarting?

@Eric: There's an option in the first panel of the preferences to show the background window up at start. Just uncheck it and you should be fine.

I have done that. and when I reboot, it is checked again. It does not remember that I unchecked it earlier.

Great Program! Thank you. I've been using a mac forever and this is the best screen capture for my needs. Love the new features.

I have learned objective-c for a few month and I don't know how to create applications with hot keys. Could you give me your advice or tell me any good pages on the web if you have some?

@Dice: google for "Shortcut recorder". That's what InstantShot! and a lot of other softwares are using.

Matteo, Thank you!!

This is one of my favorite little apps and I use it all the time. But I got a new laptop at work with Leopard (10.5.4) and I just figured out something depressing -- InstantShot is causing my desktop background to crash, and it is causing my desktop plist file to become corrupted. :( Very unhappy times. Any update on making this Leopard compatible?

I just discovered this app, and it seems to work wonders!
When I worked on a PC I used TimeSnapper to record my activity and better track my time.
InstantShot! is a good alternative. TimeSnapper has two useful features:
- a replay window to browse the recorded screenshots easily with a cursor, much like a video. But you can browse InstantShot! files easily in Leopard with the coverflow mode, it's really nice. Just add date and time to the file names and you're all set!
- in TimeSnapper you can set how long the files are kept, so you can tell it to keep only a week of screenshots and be sure your HD won't be filled if you forget to empty the capture folder once in a while.

I realize InstantSHot! is primarily a screenshot app, not a time tracking tool though :) It's already very useful to me as it is right now.
Thank you!

I just noticed InstantShot! doesn't stop shooting when the screensaver is active. It would be a handy option to stop taking screenshots when obviously nothing happens on the screen.

When you capture with a rectangle, the active window is deactivated when the InstantShot keystroke is entered.

Is there a way to start a rectangle capture, but also maintain the top-most window active? (Title bar not greyed out, etc.)

for how the operating system works it is slightly difficult to have that. Your best chance is to used a timed shot in a rectangle with a very short delay that allows you to focus the window.

Is there a way not to embed the display's color profile in each file?
I use a custom LUT profile, created with ColorEyes Pro, and the profile itself is 320Kb (compared to about 4Kb for the stock profiles in OSX) because they use a 3D table instead of a simple matrix.
Then even a small screenshot becomes quite heavy. A 20Kb jpeg becomes a big 340Kb one! I need to profile my screen for creative work, so I'm stuck.

@Totoro: of course it's possible (I think one of the first versions did that) but then what would you do? Use the 'standard' RGB profile? Doing that you'll get images that are different from what you see…

just excellent. Stable, effective, simple, flexible, FREE. Much better than the corresponding application by Apple. I am impressed.

An unobtrusive application that takes a quick capture with nice flexibility. However, for me (10.4.11), it refuses to allow a "paste" into the "save as" field when naming the capture file. Really weakens the usability in scripts. Anyone with similar problem or suggestions?

Tanti complimenti per questa applicazione, ne ho provate parecchie, ma questa è senza dubbio la migliore .
Non ho particolari suggerimenti per migliorare l'applicazione perchè secondo me è perfetta.
Al limite, l'unica opzione che aggiungerei è quella del "frozen screen", qualche volta potrebbe essere utile, ad esempio se si volessero fare più scatti a banner - gifts animati .
Per il resto è perfetta ed utilissima .
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Many congratulations for this application, I have tried several apps, but
this is without doubt the best for single shoots .
I don't have specific suggestions for improving the application because I find it perfect.
The only option that would add is a "frozen screen" option:
sometimes it may be useful, for example, if you wanted to do more
shoots on animated gifts or flash movies on the web but it's not so important.
Anyway it's perfect and very useful .
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Just wanted to say that Instant Shot is the first app I install whenever I re/install OSX. Its simplicity and ease of use make it the hands-down favourite of mine. Keep up the great work and thanks for all the time and effort you guys have put in thus far

Best Regards
Jona

Thanks for making Instant Shot available to all. It's *the* best app I have come across in a long time.

same here error saving the screenshot!, can't find the net.digitalwaters.InstantShot.plist in Library/Preferences?
Thanks

I just got a new 24" HP monitor ( 2405FPW ) and it will not capture the new screen. It states "Error saving the screenshot", but works fine on my 20" iMac screen.

Anyone able to confirm that this is the case and it will not save 1920X1200 ?

Thanks.

have the same problem here, can't find ~Library/Preferences/net.digitalwaters.InstantShot.plist, I have two mac the one not working is using ordinary keyboard (non-mac) but leopard OSx, while the working one is tiger. Is there any log file where I can view the problems?
Thanks.

Guys, try deleting the preferences file. It has to be there if you've opened the application at all.

From your HOME folder look inside the Library/Preferences folder for a file called net.digitalwaters.InstantShot.plist and delete it while the application is closed.

Unfortunately I can't test the multi monitor features now as I don't have an extra monitor. It used to work, sorry...

Found the .plist file, but still not working, is it because I'm not using mac keyboard? is there a log file for the errors? thanks.

Hello,

Great program! How can I grab a scrolling window / full html page that requires scroll?

Crazy. It has boiled down to me coming to your webpage every once in a while and downloading wathever new you have produced, eyes closed, and knowing it will be among the most useful and beautiful on my mac. How do you manage, I wonder...

Thanks a ton for your program. Well done. The only thing that would take it over the top would be making the arrow keys move the selection rectangle. This would tremendously help fine adjustments that are a pain with the mouse. For example, Up, Down, Left, and Right: move rectangle location. Shift Up and Down would adjust its size, i.e., the bottom right corner's location. Bonus: Option (or Control) would move in 10 pixel (instead of 1 pixel) increments.

What would it take to get your to add this? I'm at www.matthewcornell.org

really a well working tool. I use it every week in my Mac.

It's working just fine but nothing what shift-command-3 or 4 does, but I am looking for an application that takes 'reversed' screens. Any ideas?

@Tommy: what does 'reversed screens' mean?

This is a great program, thank you very much!

Is there a way to have the program assume the same path as the last place you chose, but still ask for confirmation so you could change it?

@Louis: at the moment the only thing that is possible is to have the applicaiton use a single default path and ask each time for the confirmation of where to save (just enable one of the first check boxes of the second pages of the preferences). It won't automatically save the last selected folder as the default output folder.

Hiya.
Tomorrow I'm getting my Mac. I've used your product in a friend's Mac.

I. Loved. It.

Now, I'm just downloading it in order to have it on CD so when I get my new computer I'll already have this software I **NEED*** ready to be installed.

Thanks a lot.

Hi,
I teach film and often have to grab a series of hundreds of frames. Unfortunately, the numbering then runs 1, 10, 100, 2, 3 etc. If you keep a file labeled (prefix)0000.jpg in your shot-to folder, the numbers will then run 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004 etc. Just remember to leave the 0000. file in the folder when its time to start a new batch.

It's also great for shooting double page spreads in page layout programs like Apple's Pages.

I love the software. Thank you for creating it and making my life a little easier.

First off, I really like InstantShot. VERY handy, & pretty flexible, too. Many options.... However....

I tried clicking on "Multiple Shots" the other day, had em sent to Preview in JPGs. So after every shot, Preview'd bring up the new screenshot. And another. And another.....
Kept on clicking & clicking & clicking away.
Pretty soon I had screenshots of screenshots inside of screenshots, like a hall of mirrors! LOL! Looked funny...

I tried all the usual shutoff keys: Esc (which I initially erroneously ASSUMED was the shutoff key, since there was no documentation as to which key it WAS, so I had to edu-guess), Cmnd-Q, Cmnd-S (stop... hell, I didn't know) even Cmnd-Opt-Esc to get the system's Quit Process window up. But that didn't work...... damn thing got covered up almost immediately by another screenshot being shown by Preview. Tried clicking on IS's menubar icon & clicking on Quit. THAT didn't work. Thought that my only option would be to hold down the power button on my Mactop, kill everything. But I didn't wanna do that 'cause I had good stuff open that'd disappear in a hail of electrons if I did that. Was actually gettin' kinda pissed.....

What I eventually did, after much trial & error, was get the system's Activity Monitor up, which I use often, & then when Preview brought up a new InstantShot screenshot I quickly killed Preview with Cmnd-Q, which gave me JUST enough time before Preview got re-invoked & then up & running by InstantShot (after 4 or 5 tries) to quickly Force Quit Instant Shot which was shown as a running process in the Activity Monitor window.

OK.... so.. ya'll have a good laugh??......
ok, so HOW is Instant Shot's multiple shooting STOPPED? Must be some key combination or somesuch. But darned if I could find it on this site or anywhere in IS's menu choices (for Help or useage, for example. HINT HINT).
Somebody drop me a line, would ya, anyone who KNOWS? (No questions about what system version I'm running, if I've got enough RAM left, & then speculative suggestions, please. Sorry, but I am looking for only the golden answer, that's all.)
Thank you!

@kevin: the fact that Preview opens all images is probably due to the fact that you may have inadvertently enabled the option in the InstantShot's preferences to open all created files with Preview. You can disable such an option in the preferences from the system tab.

As for how to stop multiple shots, you can stop them from the InstantShot menu, clicking on the same item that starts them, renamed to "Stop multiple shots" when they are running. If you want you can also start/stop them through an hotkey, you can configure that in the last tab of the preferences. By default there's no key assigned for the function. You also don't want to specify a common key sequence as Esc or Cmd-C as that would stop other applications from getting them.

Started reading the comments, but I unfortunately don't have time to tread them all. So I apologize if this is answered somewhere. However, I have webpages that are so tall, they require I take several screen shots and manually put them together. Can this app do that for me? Thanks!

@aadesign: unfortunately that's not possible with our software as that can't be done from an external app on OSX. You can try using one of the several extensions available for Firefox to do just that or specific tools that do that using webkit (Safari).

the more I use it the more I like it

Excellent. It's the only software I found that lets me define a rectangle first and then take subsequent screenshots of that area without user interaction. You'd think that expensive applications like Snapz Pro or LitleSnapper would allow that, but no.

As I am a whiny little nit-pick, though, I'd have a couple of feature requests:

1. As Matthew Cornell mentioned earlier, it would be tremendously handy to be able to fine tune the rectangle using the keyboard. I don't think a loupe like Snapz Pro is needed, one can always use Pixie, but maybe a dashed line for the rectangle?;

2. A way to define the rectangle without taking a screenshot would also be nice, just to avoid clutter due to unnessecary screenshots.

Thanks for a great tool!
I do all my app sceenshots with InstantShot!, it's just way superior to the built-in screenshot functionality of OS X.
Gotta love the timed snapshot feature!!

None of my attempts to take screen captures are working- such a shame! I tried reinstalling the program. I tried changing the saved location. I tried changing the file format of the captures...nothing. Can you fix this??

same problem, have tried everything suggested here. anybody solved it?

None of my attempts to take screen captures are working, pitty! I tried everything, reinstalling the program, changing the saved location, changing the file format of the captures, etc. Can you fix this?

We can't reproduce the issue at the moment so we just can't check what the cause of the issue is.
Possible resolution steps are:

- Check for the path to be valid in preferences panel.

- Close the application and delete the
preferences file.

You can also try to change the destination folder or to use the clipboard as destination for the screenshot.

How about some simple annotation/editing of captured images? Such as: draw a box around; draw a rounded-corner box around; draw a circle/ellipse around; draw an arrow, draw a small textbox and text; choose line-color of all the above.

InstantShot! has been a great apps, i have been using it for years. recently i switched my iMac to run in 64 bit kernel and noticed that this app is not on 64 bit yet. Can i ask if there is a plan to upgrade that in the near future ?

InstantShot! is not planned to be released on 64 bit.

I noticed that this soft does not work by Mac(SnowLeopard).Is this correct?

What kind of issues have you experienced?

How do I donate or Pay?
Thanks
AM

Hi,

first, congrats for this great software.
One thing I really miss (being a switcher from Fastone Capture) is the abitlity to have a zoomed preview of the area hovered by the mouse while capturing a rectangle area. This way, you can make really precise screen capture.

Thanks,
Guillaume

Thanks for a really awesome piece of software. Endlessly useful.

Programma veramente BEN FATTO, complimenti.
Per l'uso che vorrei farne io manca solo la possibilità di prendere screen quando un'applicazione è in full screen (testato con EVE online: non son riuscito a fare screenshot, in full-screen, che è la modalità normale a causa dell'interfaccia di gioco) mentre in windowed funziona perfettamente:
- applicazione leggera
- cattura immediata (con tanto di conferma sonora)
- scelta del path di salvataggio
- scelta del formato (importante!!!)
- scelta del formato del nome del file (eccezionale!!!)

Se decidete di implementare lo shot in full-screen suggerisco di:
- inserire la verifica dell'update (automatica o manuale)
- mettere almeno donationware l'applicazione (tramite il solito PayPal): magari 20 euro non ve li darei, ma 10 di sicuro sì! (e vedo che non sono l'unico).
(nel caso implementiate quanto sopra fatemi sapere ([email protected]) che aggiorno E pago)

P.S.
per una miglior lettura dei commenti, in genere, quelli nuovi vanno in cima. ;)

I use this great app for years but lately after upgrade my system to Lion 10.7, it's not working, when I shot within a rectangle I got a complete black image! Hope I can see your update very soon coz I need this app in my everyday work, can't live without it ! ! !

Thank you so much anyway

A Power

Hi there!

I'm a real fan of InstantShot! Great app!
Unfortunally it doesn't capture anything in Lion :(
Hope there will be an update soon.

Keep up developing these great apps!

Regards, Roger

InstantShot!
i love this app.
i hope your team will update app for New OS X
Thank You for Good Application.

not working with Lion... can you share an ETA for having this fixed (currently we get a black rectangle)

@Guillermo Stop talking like their manager!

Love iShot use it all the time I feel lost now that I am using Lion and only able to capture a black picture. Please Please bring out a new version.

Excellent app — I use 5-20 times a day. Bummed that it's not working in Lion...

Grazie mille per questa applicazione, la uso spesso in alternativa ad altre più complesse di cui non ho bisogno .
Vorrei che la prossima versione fosse compatibile con Lion 10.7 perchè al momento ottengo solo delle immagini nere .

Grazie mille ancora :-)

Thanks so much for this application, I use it often as an alternative to other more complex apps that I don't need.

I would like to ask the compatibility with Lion 10.7 in the next version 'cos using this v. 2.5 I just get black images.

Thanks again :-)

I'm also just getting black images saved under OS X Lion. A fix would be appreciated!

when i cature, not work
it black screen
Please, update for OS X Lion
Thank you very much

This app is perfect but now :( is not working in lion!!

Please take a small time to fix it!!

Please help update for OS X Lion, thank you very much.

Same here, just recently upgraded to OS X Lion and its not working. An update would be great.

Non funziona + con Lion Mac X 10.7......

Great, fantastic app!
But please ... PLEASE ... upgrade it for Lion Mac OS X !
Otherwise, only black images :((

Thanks!

We are investigating issues with Lion in order to release a fix as soon as possible.

THE BEST software to make screenshot with Mac OS, but with Lion it has some problems because the images taken are all "black" files !

Waiting for the update. Thanks!

I second everyone in the last comments. Greatest screen capture software, hope there'll be soon a fix soon to make compatible with Lion.

I really miss having this app. Recently try other screen capture software from the mac app store but none work as good as instantShot!. Please update. Thanks!!

This app rocks, but with Lion doesn't work :-( ...
I hope to see an updated version soon :-) .
Thanks.

Why don't you put it on App Store for $3? Great app, by the way!

Not working with Lion, all grabs are black.

BTW, how will you guys send an update, is it automatic or are we supposed to check the website periodically? thanks [email protected]

Same too here. I would be happy with an Lion compatibility.

I'm missing it.

Great app, have just upgraded to Lion and it's made me realize how often I use it.

+1 for the update.

Is there an estimate for when? If it will take long I need to find something else in the meantime....

I'd kill for OSX Lion compatibility.

Just to let you know how much we miss your app.
please let me know when you get a fix for it.
by the way, you should put a price (low if possible) on it.

'... by the way, you should put a price (low if possible) on it.'

I concur !!!

Please update it to work with Lion :)

Please add compatibility for Lion :)

Yeah, having the same trouble as everyone else. Can't find anything this good that's cheap (let alone free). Hope you get to the bottom of it soon! :)

Bonjour

un portage sous OSX lion serait cool
ce petit utilitaire me rends bien des services.
don paypal possible ou bien passer par le mac ap store
merci.

It would be great if we could hear from you on this thread to know you're listening and perhaps working on an update. Please! Your software is perfect for my needs and nothing else works well for me.

I'd be happy to pay a few bucks for this.

Thanx for the coming update

Miss this app sooooooooo much!

Try using Grab. It comes with Lion. It's in the Utilities folder.

I just bought GrabIt in the app store for $1.99. It is a lot easier to use than Grab and a perfect replacement for InstantShot.

Grab is been around for ages and stink only good if you want the picture to stay in your desktop for a while. Grabit I don't know. As what you say a replacement of the BEST capture program since 2006 I don't think so and the way you say it after using it for 6 years for free. That is not respectable look at the list of Lion user me include hoping this guys find a solution to our desire. Guys I hope you find the solution and thank you for all this years.

teladoy

I found this small free program that is very similar not as complete but helps my need here is the link:
www.macupdate.com
I hope this can reduce the pressure over the InstantShot developer meanwhile they find a solution.
I look at Grabit and see nothing fitting my needs.

I guess the other option for now is Skitch, which has just gone free in the app store. A lot 'heavier' that instantshot! but has some nice functionality.

What I love InstantShot! most is the "repeat previous screenshot area" function.

Can someone advice me some other app also has this function please?

I like InstantShot, but I really need it to add a drop-shadow effect under the capture.
I use Moodysoft's SPX Screen Capture for Windows, and it does this and more, like torn paper. You can also control the degree of these effects, offset, transparency, borders, colors.
I hope you will consider adding this to your product as well.
thanks.
Dave

Hello,
InstantShot! 2.6 beta for Lion only is now available in the download page! :)
Thank you for the patience and have fun!

Great News
InsrantShort! Coming
Thank you team Develop.

Big thanx from all your fans !
Big thanx from all your fans !
Big thanx from all your fans !
Big thanx from all your fans !
Big thanx from all your fans !

Fantastic job.

Thanks

Many, many thanks for the update. Love InstantShot!

I have installed v2.6b under Lion but, having clicked open the app, it cannot be found! Force Quit fails to show it either yet - if I then try to delete the app - I am told it cannot be deleted as it's still open!

How do I delete to re-install, please?

...when Google Chrome is closed, so please ignore my query, above!

Thanks a million for the Lion update!!

Very appreciated effort on your part best wishes.

Hi, on a brand new lion machine instantshot is freezing consistently whenever i choose the "System" tab on the Preferences window.

Great app, been using it for years! Thanks.

I'm having the same problem as above. Whenever I choose the last two tabs in preferences the program freezes and I need to restart. Other than that I'm thrilled to have this available for Lion. Thanks.

We are aware of this issue and we are currently investigating. Stay tuned for updates! :)

I can not do serialized framed screenshot. It does not react on alt-click or rightclick. Only on hitting space it begins. Latest Lion version used.

@Peter and others: the freezing has been solved in 2.6.1.

@Markus: the right click should bring up the last rectangle selected. Depending on whether the option in the Advanced panel of the preferences is selected, the app lets you review the rectangle before the screenshot starts. Deactivate the check box in the preferences and it should start the screenshot as soon as you press the right click. At least for me it does, on Lion.

Since upgrading to OSX 10.7 Lion, screeen-caps of a movie playing in DVD player now just appear as blank transparencies.

I understand this is Apple's code at work... but any chance of InstantShot being able to override this?

Hi,
I love your product. Are you going to release it also through the App Store? That would be great!

App works great but I am using Lion 10.7.2 and InstantShot version 2.6.1 and it still freezes when I select Preferences > System.

everytime I take an screenshot it comes out black. is there a trick? macbookpro

You can find InstantShot! 2.6.1 beta, which fixes the black screen issue, in the download page.

I encountered a problem with the Desktop Picture mostly disappearing. It disappeared except under the menu bar. I traced it down to the "Show Background Window." When “Show Background Window” is checked the Desktop Picture disappears. Just a white space shows except, as noted, under the Menu Bar. I unchecked “Show Background Window” but every time Instashot! restarts, “Show Background Window” is checked again. Is there any way to stop it?

We are currently investigating this issue. Stay tuned for updates!

@Jim: you can try to delete the preferences file located inside the Library/Preferences folder of your Home: it's called
net.digitalwaters.InstantShot.plist.

Hi,
Do you have plans for InstantShot on the Mac App Store ?
It's more convenient for updates.
Also, with Mountain Lion coming this summer and its new Gatekeeper feature, it would be better if InstantShot is a Mac App Store application.

Sorry, currently we are not planning to upload InstantShot! on Mac App Store.

I have used this software in the past on my MacBook Pro and it's been great. However, I have now upgraded to a new 27" iMac running Lion and when I run the multiple shots inside a rectangle it just records a black image every shot. Is the software not compatible with Lion or can you think of any other reasons why it isn't working?

InstantShot! 2.6.1b for Lion is currently available on the download page.

Hi, I used InstantShot! until now (with Snow Leopard); unfortunately I upgraded to Moutain Lion and my screen shots are now all black... A pity really, I am missing my "InstantShot!". Hoping that the developers will issue very fast an update for 10.8. Kind regards,

How can i take multiscreen capures of a portion screen?
I can drag a portion screen area but i cant start the multi capture process it.
If i start capturing the instant record programm captures always the hole window including the portion area with the help menu.

The solution is a double click with left mouse button.

Hiys, great product I've used a long time. With 10.8 I sometimes get a normal shoot inside rectangle, it works on my desktop, but when trying to shoot a copy of my work schedule on the internet I get no tone and no shot. Thanks.

Love this programme, used it often to capture screenshots for making Gifs, but ever since I updated to Mountain Lion, all I get are black images. Hope things get updated soon. Thanks!

Hey guys ... PLEASE fix for Lion!!!... When you Clip a large shot to Clipboard the program blows up (Ends) ... I have your latest release too! Thanks!!!!!!

all i get are black images..mac 10.7

Please release an absolutely compatible version for OSX.8.2 Mountain Lion...
www.macupdate.com

We are currently investigating Mountain Lion issues. Stay tuned tor updates! ;)

Please also add support for Retina MacBook Pro.

Thanks.

InstantShot! 2.6.2b for Mountain Lion is out!
Check it out in the related download page. :)

Great program, thank you so much for this. Works great under 10.5.8.

When U try to go to system in the preferences the whole program locks up. I have an imac 10.7

InstantShot! 2.6.2 beta is out!

I tried it six times to Sunday, the app does not install. You have to physically move it into your applications folder. Then it fails to open. I'd be updating this plugin real soon or forget it.

Thanks for this great little utility. I like just because one intriguing function: it snaps the screenshot including mouse cursor. Mac's default snap app can do that, but you have to select cursor to be included in your screenshot beforehand. That means, if you select default arrow and hover your mouse on a link, you'll have arrow in your snapshot, not a hand cursor that you actually see on the screen at that moment.


Application itself just somewhat works and does one thing I needed: saves the screenshot of a screen in an interval so I can fetch it on my website (and reload when it changes, it can save with the same filename every time).

Version 2.6.2b crashes a lot, probably every 15-20 minutes and every time i turn on the display. It could be probably caused by saving one file over and over, I did't look into that. Stable Universal Binary version 2.5 doesn't work on Mountain Lion.

I've made the following file to auto-restart InstantShot when it crashes (run at launch and keep alive). The only thing I notice when it reload is that it's icon briefly flashes in the menubar (I use Bartender app to hide menubar crap).

Location of the file: /Volumes/Home/Users/{your_username}/Library/LaunchAgents/InstantShot.restart.plist By default, app-name contains character "!".

Content of the file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "www.apple.com
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>SomeApp.restart</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Applications/InstantShot.app/Contents/MacOS/InstantShot!</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I just downloaded the new 2.6.2b for mac lion. sadly it doesn't capture the image but shows as a large grey and white cheque pattern. can you help please? thanks!

Solved by email.

Hi (and sorry for my bad english),

Since a long time, i take screenshot every 5 secondes when i'am working to make a movie at 30 pictures/secondes after...

For that, InstantShot is a wonderful software but they are something i can't do with it... :

I need to open instantShot when i start to work, and i need to close it when i make a pause, and i need to restart it after the pause... And i forget that very ofen!

How i can run automaticaly Instant Shot juste when i am in my computer?

I search how i can close an app when the screensaver start for exemple but i don't find anything for this solution,
I search apple script to do it but i'm not expert in applescrit and i don't find solution with it...

Do you have an idea???

Thanks for your work and thank you to read me with my bad english :-)

Hello AleXXi,
take a look at this page:

darren.stanford.edu

Maybe you should adapt this script to your needs. :)

Thank you very much Juna, I think i can do it with that...

I try and if I find i post my solution here!

Thank you Juna, i change a little the script and it work fine!!!

I paste the script :

-----------------------
on run

idle

end run

--You need to save this script as executable and chose the case "save open after…"

on idle

tell application "System Events"

if exists (process "ScreenSaverEngine") then -- If screen saver is on:
tell application "InstantShot!" -- The script close instantshot!
quit
end tell

else


tell application "InstantShot!" -- The script open instantshot!
run
end tell


end if

end tell

return 60 --execute this script every minutes
end idle



on quit
continue quit
end quit

-----------BYE-------------

I'm very pleased to help you, thank you for sharing! :D

Hi,

I found InstantShot great since 10.5. But recently I upgraded to 10.8.3, it started to act weird.

I did some screen shots and it did the job, but it somehow not showing in my folder instantly.

While I can see it (instantly) by clicking "browse" in Preferences -> General -> Path, it's not showing in the Finder. And it shows up after few minutes. So I know the screenshot was taken, but just don't know why it's not been seen via Finder.

Weird issue and hopefully it can be fixed soon. Hopefully I can use InstantShot! normally soon.

Leon

It's not InstantShot issue. It's the file system I guess. After repair start disk with Disk Utility, the Finder works just fine as before. Hope this would help someone out there. Cheers.

Ooops, the problem is still there...I guess it's Finder's issue, but at least for now, it's only effect InstantShot!...

Just an update. I think it's OS problem (just happen to occur with InstantShot!), I tried to delete all .DS_Store files in the filesystem (onyx can do that) and it worked well now. Hope this could help someone out there.

Leon

For the last several weeks IS (the most recent version running on Lion) has given an error that it had an "error saving the screenshot." I have written two emails asking for help and have not received a reply. Is IS still being supported or do I need to find another utility. I have used IS for years and am disappointed that it isn't working. Help pls. Thx. PBeck Toronto