WebKut Makes Blogging Easier
Adobe AIR App WebKut allows you to take screen captures of websites. I’m not really a big fan of these apps for various reasons. Normally, they only let you take the entire page, or they’re just plain slow. However, WebKut doesn’t fall trap to these limitations.
Note: I have a thing for Adobe AIR apps. I don’t know why, but there’s something about them that’s just…sexy.
WebKut For Image Capturing
Normally when I blog about an app or service, I go to its website and manually grab a snapshot of its logo. Then, I edit it all in Microsoft Paint. I despise opening up Paint, but I despise opening up Photoshop even more for small things like getting a logo. WebKut makes that process a lot simpler and in turn, is making my blogging efforts easier.
WebKut Features
There are 3 capture options for WebKut:
- Entire Page
- Current View
- Only A Selection
The first option is self explanatory. The second option is pretty neat. You can resize WebKut to take a snapshot of the page exactly how you see it in WebKut. I love the last option (selection only) because I usually just need a small portion of a site.
The entire process is really simple and the settings for saving are great. You can save an image in JPG, PNG, and even PDF, though I’m not sure why I’d save an image in the last format. I hope they’ll also add support for more image formats, mainly GIF. You can also tweak the image quality and ratio for each format and choose where you’d like the image to be saved.
WebKut Limitations
There are only a handful of limitations and none that bother me enough to dump the app. WebKuts homepage notes that:
On Microsoft Windows, PDF document and some Flash animations in web pages will be replaced by blank spaces.
The maximum height for an image is 2880 pixels.
Another limitation, though I think of it as an annoyance, is that you can’t manually name your screen captures to whatever you’d like. If the developers are listening, please fix this.
Awesomesauce Approved
Yes, WebKut is awesomesauce approved. Why? It’s simple, efficient, small in size and memory, and it’s saving me a ton of time! Now if only this could work for desktop screenshots. It would be almost perfect!….almost.
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