Free screen capture tools software for mac

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

By default, the System generates screen capture PICT files at startup disks root level as SimpleText (TeachText) graphics.

ScreenCapture2PhotoshopPICT is an AppleScript that converts all screen captures found at the startup disks root level to Photoshop PICT format.

Completly freeware.

Once in a while, I need to take a picture of the screen with a menu pulled down, in order to document one of my shareware programs. If I did this every day, I suppose I wouldnt mind paying for a screen capture program with all the bells and whistles, but as it is, I resist. Years ago, there was a tiny freeware extension called StillDown, by Gregory M. Robbins, that enabled command-shift-3 screen shots with menus pulled down. But StillDown doesnt work with Mac OS 8. Therefore, I decided to write a new free bare-bones menu snapshot program: MenuCapture.
In Mac OS 8.1 and later, if you pull down a menu with a click rather than a click-and-hold, you can snap its picture without the aid of MenuCapture. Thats why MenuCapture is on the Obsolete page.
To install MenuCapture, drop it in your Control Panels folder and reboot.
To use MenuCapture, open the MenuCapture control panel and click the "Enable" checkbox. Then pull down a menu, and press the keys command, shift, and control simultaneously. What happens next depends on what version of the system you are running. With System 7.6 or later, the cursor turns into a cross-hair; let up the mouse button, then click and drag to select a rectangle to be copied to the clipboard. With earlier systems, a snapshot of the whole screen is saved as a picture file on your disk.
The actual picture-taking is done by the built-in screen capture FKEYs: FKEY 4 in the case of System 7.6 and later, FKEY 3 in the case of older software that did not have FKEY 4.
Enhancements:
- Makes it more obvious how to capture a contextual menu, by ensuring that the cursor changes to a cross-hair.
- I also attempted to clarify the text in the control panel.

DVD Capture is a helper application for the Apple DVD Player. It enables the user to take screen captures of the DVD Player Viewer in window and full screen mode. The captures can be saved to a file or placed on the clipboard. An AppleScript is provided for the DVD Player script menu that launches DVD Capture. Select "File" or "Clipboard" to assign a location for the capture.
Enhancements:
- New features include enhanced improved file handling
- DVD Player controls
- improved settings retention and conversion to JPEG and cropping capability.

Capture That! 1.2 has come with the ability to allow you to change the default file format and the default path for screen capture service in Mac OS X

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Apple Image Capture SDK contains the version 2.0 release of the Image Capture SDK for both application development and camera/scanner module development.

It includes sample code and documentation demonstrating how to use the Image Capture framework on Mac OS 10.2 to access camera/scanner devices and how to write camera/scanner modules.

It also includes the CameraCheck tool which allows you to test your device with Image Capture, the Image Capture Brower, a tool for browsing ICA objects and properties, and the ICANotificationListener tool to check for ICA notifications..