WebKut Makes Blogging Easier
Apr 29 2008 
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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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very kool AIR app that I plan to use with my blog now. thanks for introducing it to us.
It works really well! Thanks for finding this!
Meh. Skitch is going to be releasing their Windows version very shortly (I have it on good authority!) and all you poor Windows users will wonder what you ever did without it. Name it whatever you want, resize on the fly, send it up to the web, Tweet it, whatever. So hold onto that Awesomesauce badge. ;)
I've been waiting forever for Skitch to release their Windows version! It
looks awesome enough. WebKut is staying for now though. It's way too
convenient for me.
I agree re: sexiness of Adobe Air apps. So hot right now.
Thank God! I thought I was the only perverted one out there. ;)
Corvida. please, forget about this weak app, the app i cannot live without is Jing..jing is where the action is.
But Jing requires registration and a login. WebKut doesn't.
THIS IS SO AWESOME! (This is why I'm using all caps, lol!)
I have wanted something this easy for a long time. Yay Corvida – you always find the best stuff! :D
Aww yay! I have another in the works. A similar program that you may like.
I'll Twitter you when it's done :P
This app isn't that good. I have to re-open the site i browse in the WebKut window? How lame!
Use the Microsoft SnippingTool instead. Free selection on the fly (ok, no entire web page), mark text oder draw on the screen shot and save it or send it via Email to your skitch.com-Account, which you already can use as a windows user (even without the skitch app).
The problem with this app is that it's only for Windows Vista and I'm
forever and always on XP. :P Thanks for the recommendation though.
The developer is listening!
Thanks for the article and feedback.
I think the idea of providing the ability to change the name of the created image is nice, I may add that in the next update.
Also: I've been contacted by Skitch to add a way to auto publish your WebKuts to your account.
I'll keep you informed!
I used to use the toolbar from eSnips.com to do screen captures. It gave you the option to select the part of the screen you wanted and even a choice of different shapes to make the screenshot in. It also let you upload directly to your eSnips account or save it to the clipboard.
But I find myself using MWSnap (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html) more often now. I wish it had the option to save to something other than a file but besides that it's one of the best free screenshot tools for Windows I've seen.
I will definitely be early in line to try out the Windows version of Skitch though! Been drooling over that one since I first saw it.
I use WebKut for simple things. For more heavy stuff, try Jing http://www.jingproject.com
I've used Jing before… it's pretty cool but sometimes I had problems with it locking up. I used it more for the 5 minute screencasting than screenshots. I had some problems trying to use it making a screencast of a .Net application I was developing a few months ago and that was the last time I've used it. I think since Jing is built on .Net it was having a conflict. I haven't reinstalled it since I had to rebuild my computer most recently, mainly since I haven't had felt the urge to make another screencast.
Have you tried Kwout (http://kwout.com/) for Firefox? It's even post to Flickr or Tumblr blog directly if you want. Really helps while blogging.
That is true.
another good one that does support full page and section capture and GIFs, along w/all the other image types, plus naming ot what you want is FastStone Capture: http://www.FastStone.org. Works wonders for me & it's free.
another good one that does support full page and section capture and GIFs, along w/all the other image types, plus naming ot what you want is FastStone Capture: http://www.FastStone.org. Works wonders for me & it's free.
another good one that does support full page and section capture and GIFs, along w/all the other image types, plus naming ot what you want is FastStone Capture: http://www.FastStone.org. Works wonders for me & it's free.