I am always pleased to find new utilities that make blogging quicker and easier and kwout, a brand new online screenshot and ‘quote’ capture service does just that.
Callling itself a “simple quote tool for bloggers”, kwout lets you highlight any area on a webpage and grab it as an image or an image map. Unlike other screenshot programs, you do not have to save the image to disk and then upload it to an image storage service, your server or blog image store before posting. Instead, the code is given for you to copy and paste and embed the image into your blog, leaving the image on the kwout server indefinitely. You also have the choice of uploading the image to Flickr or Tumblr.
Kwout works via the a browser toolbar bookmarklet. Simply click on the bookmarklet and highlight the area of a page you wish to capture (images, text, links etc). You have the options of adding borders, shading and background color to your saved image as well as saving in different sizes.
The beauty of this tool is its ability to create image maps, which means that any links, within the area you captured, are retained. This is difficult to achieve yourself; without html knowledge and html program.You can see examples of image maps below, captured from this site.
If you do wish to save the image to your normal image location you can still retain the image map details. Save the captured image to your hard disk, upload it to your storage area of choice and just substitute the kwout image location URL for your saved picture URL , retaining all the rest of the code. I have done this with the kwout capture below, saving the image to my own server:
Importantly, kwout is easy to use and more features are planned. I am impressed.
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Sue – Kwout sounds brilliant – thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for all your up to date information, it is appreciated.
Thanks for the Kwout tip. Sounds like a good tool for bloggers.
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