If you want to take screenshot of the whole web page (including its invisible part which is below the fold), most of the screen capture software will not help. Pressing the PrintScreen key will also not help since it can capture only the visible area of a web page. Enter FireShot. It can capture the whole web page, including its invisible part, with a single click irrespective of how big that web page is. No need to scroll down and take several screenshots to cover a single web page. FireShot can also capture only the visible area of a web page if you so wish or any region of the visible area.
FireShot is a free software which is available as add-on / extension for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers which cover about 90% of Internet users between them. FireShot for the Firefox browser is available here. FireShot for Internet Explorer can be downloaded from here.
In addition to being able to create screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part), FireShot also provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which enable you to quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations to them. These capabilities of FireShot can be useful for web designers, bloggers, testers and content reviewers.
You can do several things to a screen captured by FireShot:
FireShot works as a button on the toolbar in the above two browsers from where you can capture screen images with a single click; see the image below for Firefox:
The following image shows the full screen image of FireShot in action in the Firefox browser; different functionalities of FireShot are explained in this image (click on this image to see an enlarged view):
FireShot can integrate into the right-click context menu of the browser, from where you can directly capture the entire web page or the visible area of the web page with single clicks. See the figure below:
It also supports many image-editing functions which can be helpful to instantly edit the captured image or you can directly send it to an external image editor of your choice to edit it.
FireShot has following three screen-capture modes:
FireShot has several graphical tools that work with the selections on the screen on which you want to work. These tools include Crop tool, Fill tool, Gaussian blur tool, Grayscale tool, Color inversion tool, Glowing edges tool, Interfaces tool. Have a look at the following image to see the effect of applying some of these tools to an image:
FireShot also provides several Vector instruments for quick and effective annotation of the captured screens, including the Text tool, Text and Shape tool, Text and Freedom drawing tool and Text and Line tool. It has some image-editing tools which can be used instantly used on the captured image from a web page right within the browser window itself.
As FireShot is absolutely free, it is worth giving it a try. You would definitely like its rich features with several options and customization settings. [Note: FireShot also has a paid version called FireShot Pro. However, what has been discussed in this article relates only to FireShot’s free version.]
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