What is Ashampoo Snap 6?
Ashampoo Snap 6 is the ideal solution for quick screen captures. Have the means to record and document anything you see on your screen as screenshot images and video screencasts with audio support.

Create images, tutorials, screencasts and presentations or simply share information with friends and colleagues - Ashampoo Snap 6 is your premier tool to communicate your thoughts and ideas.

Why Ashampoo Snap 6?
What you see is what you get

With Ashampoo Snap 6, you can store your screen contents - permanently. Anything you see, Ashampoo Snap 6 can capture. Document your screen contents with ease and share valuable information with others as screenshots or screencasts.
Ashampoo Snap 6 is ...

Е unobtrusive!
Running silently in the background, Ashampoo Snap 6 does not get in the way of your daily workflow. It is always ready yet only shows up when you need it.

Е visual and intuitive!
Ashampoo Snap 6 is ideal for both beginners and experts. It features a highly readable and intuitive user-interface that makes most operations self-explanatory and the many visual cues make also more advanced multi-step processes a breeze.

Е comprehensive!
Ashampoo Snap 6 not only captures information but provides a myriad of functions and effects to add annotations and to further illustrate your point, making it ideal for educational and business settings. You can even process existing images, no additional image editor required. Once your work is finished, distribute it right from within Ashampoo Snap 6.

New Features Ashampoo Snap 6:
- Hassle-free Upload to Ashampoo Snap Webspace:
o Share screenshots with a single click - it can't be easier!
o No LogIn or cumbersome account creation required.
o Once uploaded, share the link to your screenshot via instant messaging or by email, post it at social network sites or use them at some website as a reference.

- Image Capture Technology:
o All new support for full 32bit transparency (RGBA). The whole capture and edit mode process and viewing backend has been updated to work with translucent areas and shapes.
o All existing tools (eg erasor, blur pen) have been updated to proper work with transparency. For example, the erasor tool erases parts f the alpha channel instead of drawing into the capture itsself.

- Edit Mode / Dynamic Capture Objects:
o All new support for dynamic objects added to the screenshot itsself.
- Any effect like DropShadow, MouseCursor, Watermark, Timestamp, Shape or Border can be modified even AFTER the capture was taken.
- The user can change effects like DropShadow in real-time with a live preview.
- Completely new GUI elements ease the use of those new possibilities, and offering a new workflow without classic OK/Cancel-boxes.
- When using Ashampoo Photo Commander Document v2 (APCDOC2) format as output format, those effects can even be changed when the file was saved
and loaded the next day!
- It never has been easier to change the shape of a screenshot, to add a fancy border effect or to show the name of the window captured as a watermark on top of the image!
o New effect browser showing live previews of 15 available effects useful for screenshots.
o New commands "flatten layers" and "convert to 24bit" for advanced users.
o Choose Color Window integrates an additional color picker enabling the user to choose any color available on the desktop without switching outside the application.

- Video Capture:
o Redesigned video recording options for ease of use.
o New video capture mode "time lapse" offers creating an accelerated view of motion, which is useful for creating tutorials.
o Webcam Capture supports capturing still snapshots as well.

- Windows 8 Support:
o Capture new Windows 8 Style Apps, Windows 8 Store, etc.
o Improved support for capturing classic desktop windows applications.

- Workflow Improvements - CaptureBar:
o New default position at the top-right screen edge and size in order to not interrupt the users desktop workflow.
o Easily switch between single- and multi-shot mode by switching a button on or off.

- Improved Output Format Support:
o Load and Save in PDF Format with a new Encoder/Decoder, working on Windows Server Systems as well.
o Full support for APCDOC Format v2.0. When using this format, all important layers like DropShadow, MouseCursor, Watermark etc are saved into the file and can be edited afterwards in EditMode!

- Color Picker:
o New Capture Mode specifically designed for capturing colors from within the desktop.
o Collect multiple colors in a batch, useful for web designers.
o Export those color collections to files in several formats. For example in Adobe Color Swatch Format, which can be imported in Adobe Photoshop.

- Other Improvements:
o Multi-Core:
- Full support for dual-core, quad-core cpus resulting in great speed increase, especially for cpu-intense calculations. Multiple cores are detected automatically and used whenever useful, for example when applying an effect.
o Timed Capture:
- Timed Capture supports additional time intervals.