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+Greenshot - a free screenshot tool optimized for productivity
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+Welcome to the source repository for Greenshot
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+What is Greenshot?
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+Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
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+* Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.
+* Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
+* Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.
+and a lot more options simplyfying creation of and work with screenshots every day.
+
+Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots.
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+
+[If you find that Greenshot saves you a lot of time and/or money, you are very welcome to support the development of this screenshot software.](http://getgreenshot.org/support-greenshot/)
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+
+About this repository
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+This repository has all the sources of Greenshot, but we have multiple branches of which two should be important to know about:
+
+**1.1**
+Greenshot 1.1.x can be found in the 1.1 branch, this branch represents the current release.
+
+**1.2**
+Greenshot 1.2.x can be found in the 1.2 branch, this branch will be coming soon.
+But it mostly has a few more bug fixes and changes as are in our Greenshot release, as we collect multiple fixes before releasing.
+1.2 is a "dying" branch, as we want to change a lot of the underlying application for 2.0 and most of Greenshot will need to be rewritten.
+This means pull request with fixes or **small** changes are very welcome!
+
+**master**
+The master branch has that which some day will be available in Greenshot 2.0.
+As we are re factoring and changing a lot of code for 2.0, this branch should be considered highly unstable!
+We accept pull-request for 2.0, but it might be better to wait with bigger changes until things settle down a bit.
+
+
+Developing for Greenshot
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+We develop Greenshot with Visual Studio Express 2013 and tested our solution on Visual Studio Professional 2012.
+It should be possible to compile Greenshot directly after a checkout, eventually Visual Studio needs to upgrade the solution.
+What doesn't work are the plug-in for cloud storage (like Box, Dropbox, Imgur, Picasa and Photobucket) as these need "API keys".
+These keys are not in our Greenshot repository, if you want to develop on one of the plug-ins you will need to create you own keys by registering with theses services as a developer.
+I will add a description here later to explain how include your API keys so you can develop.
+
+P.S.
+Statistics on the Greenshot project, supplied by Ohloh, can be found [here](http://www.ohloh.net/p/greenshot)
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