How to ...

• Capture the Rectangular Region
• Capture the Elliptical Region
• Capture the Freehand Region
• Capture the Region of Fixed-Size
• Capture from Media Player or DVD.
• Cropping of one-color background
• Magnification
• Capture of Windows
• Capture of Scrolling Windows
• Capture Menu
• Capture Cursor
• Capture Color
• Repeat the last capture
• Edit an image
• Record a screen activity
• Extract images from EXE,DLL,SCR,OCX files

Capture the Rectangular Region

1. Click button on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Region menu command or press the <Capture Region> hotkey (default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+R).
2. Move the mouse pointer to any corner of the desired rectangle.
3. Depress the left mouse button and drag the mouse to select the rectangular region.
4. Release the left mouse button to finish selection.
5. Click the right mouse button to invoke the context menu and choose Grab now item (<Return> key) to grab the selected image or Cancel item (<Esc> key) to cancel operation.

See Rectangular Region Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture the Elliptical Region

1. Click button on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Region menu command or press the <Capture Region> hotkey (default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+R).
2. Check the Elliptical region mode in the context menu (to invoke it click the right mouse button).
3. Move the mouse pointer to any corner of the desired rectangle.
4. Depress the left mouse button and drag the mouse to select the elliptical region.
5. Release the left mouse button to finish selection.
6. Click the right mouse button to invoke the context menu and choose Grab now item (<Return> key) to grab the selected image or Cancel item (<Esc> key) to cancel operation.

See Elliptical Region Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture the Freehand Region

1. Click button on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Region menu command or press the <Capture Region> hotkey (default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+R).
2. Check the Freehand region mode in the context menu (to invoke it click the right mouse button).
3. Move the mouse pointer to the start point.
4. Depress the left mouse button and draw the freehand region.
5. Release the left mouse button to finish drawing.
6. Click the right mouse button to invoke the context menu and choose Grab now item (<Return> key) to grab the selected image or Cancel item (<Esc> key) to cancel operation.

See Freehand Region Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture the Region of Fixed-Size

1. Click button on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Fixed Region or press the <Capture Fixed Region> hotkey (default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+X).
2. Depress the left mouse button inside the frame, move and place it over a region to capture.
   
3. Click the right mouse button to invoke the context menu and choose Grab now item (<Return> key) to grab the selected image or Cancel item (<Esc> key) to cancel operation.

See Fixed Region Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture from Media Player or DVD.

1. Run Mr. Captor.
2. Make sure the DirectX method is selected.
3. Run the DVD/Media Player).
4. Use commands/hotkeys <Capture Screen>/<Capture Frame> for method 1.
   Use a common screen capture procedure for method 2.

That's all.

Note: You need to run Mr. Captor before you run DVD/Media Player/Game.

See Capture of DirectX output topic for details.

Cropping of one-color background

Magnification

Capture of Windows

1. Click button on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Windows menu item or press the <Capture Window> hotkey (default is Ctrl+Shift+W).
2. Move mouse. Window located under cursor will be framed.
3. Click the left mouse button to grab a window under cursor or execute theGrab now context menu command.

To capture an active window press the <Capture Active Window> hotkey (default is Ctrl+Shift+A).

See Window Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.
To capture a group of windows see the Capture of Group of Windows topic.

Capture of Scrolling Windows

1. Click button, located on the Capture Bar or click the Capture | Automatic Scroll menu command.
2. Point out the window to grab and click the left mouse button. The selected window will be scrolled and captured automatically.

You can stop this process at any time by clicking the Stop button of the Cancel Dialog box.

See the Capture of Scrolling Windows topic for details.

Capture Menu

1. Display a menu.
2. Place the mouse cursor over it.
3. Press the <Capture Menu> hotkey (default is Ctrl+Shift+M).

Warning: Don't place the mouse cursor over the menu bar. It results to the wrong capture.

Use the Options | Preferences | Main page to adjust the menu options.

See Menu Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture Cursor

See Cursor Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Capture Color

1. Click button or click the Capture | Color or press the <Capture Color> hotkey (default is Ctrl+Shift+C).
2. Move the mouse cross-hair cursor to the specified point.
3. Click the left mouse button.

The selected color is copied to the Clipboard as a hexadecimal text string.
Use standard Paste command to paste it into the text document.

See Color Capture and Hotkeys topics for details.

Repeat the last capture

See also Hotkeys topic for details about using hotkeys.

Edit an image

Record a screen activity

1. Click button and select a region to record.
2. Click the Start... conext menu command to start the recording.
3. Click the Red button to stop the recording.

It is also possible to use the hotkey to Start/Stop a recording.
If you don't specify the Video Path at Options | Timer/Video dialog, Mr. Captor will ask you a path to save a video. You can also play a video immediately after the recording is completed.

See the Timer/Video topic to learn more.

Extract images from EXE,DLL,SCR,OCX files

1. Click the File | Extract from EXE, DLL menu command,
2. Select a file to extract from.
3. Select an image and press the Extract button.
   
   

See the Extract images from resources topic for details.