Dave's PNG Capture

Capture screens, selected regions, scrolling pages, and scrolling regions as PNG images.

**Capture exactly what you need — from a quick snapshot of the current browser view to a full scrolling webpage — and automatically saves it as a crisp PNG in your downloads** Dave's PNG Capture was built to be fast, flexible, accessible, and __privacy-first__. Whether you're documenting a website, saving a dashboard, capturing a long page, or selecting a precise region, the extension gives you straightforward capture tools without sending your screenshots or preferences anywhere. *Highlights* - Your data is private in your browser - Screen data not stored in extension once file is saved - No data transmitted anywhere, Ever! - Capture an entire scrolling webpage and automatically stitch it into one PNG - Capture a selected region while scrolling — ideal for dashboards and complex web applications - Capture the current visible browser screen instantly - Capture a specific static region using an easy crosshair selection tool - Intelligent handling of many fixed and sticky headers, navigation bars, and page elements - Adjustable scroll settling delay from 0–3000 ms for pages that lazy-load or animate content - Customizable crosshair size, thickness, opacity, edge snapping, and colors - Accessibility-focused themes including Accessible Default, High Contrast Light, High Contrast Dark, and Color Vision Safe (extension may not be fully screen reader compliant, apologies I'm vibe coding, not an accessibility expert but I do care about my fellow human beings who are vision impaired) - User-selectable interface themes and custom colors - Helpful ESC-to-cancel guidance during region selection - Minimum region-size checking prevents accidental unusable captures - Clean, filesystem-friendly PNG filenames based on the current page title - Saves directly through Chrome's normal Downloads system - No account, registration, cloud storage, subscription, or external capture service required Four simple capture modes Dave's PNG Capture keeps the main interface intentionally simple. 1. Save Screen (scrolling) Capture the full scrollable page from top to bottom and save the result as one PNG. 2. Save Region (scrolling) Choose the exact portion of the browser you care about, then let the extension scroll through the page while capturing only that selected region. This can be especially useful for dashboards, reports, analytics pages, long tables, and websites with persistent navigation panels. 3. Save Current Screen (static) Save exactly what is currently visible in the browser viewport with no scrolling or stitching. 4. Save Region (static) Use the crosshair selector to draw around the precise portion of the current screen that you want to save. *Built for modern web pages* Modern websites are not always simple printable documents. Navigation bars may remain fixed while content scrolls. Sidebars can stay pinned to the screen. Dashboards may contain dynamically rendered charts, tables, or content that loads only after scrolling. Dave's PNG Capture includes capture logic specifically designed to work around many of these situations. For scrolling captures, the extension can temporarily account for fixed and sticky interface elements so they do not appear repeatedly throughout the final stitched image. It also restores the page to its original state and scroll position after the capture is complete. For pages that need extra time to render after scrolling, the optional Settling Delay can pause between scroll steps before each screenshot is taken. *Precise region selection* The region selector was designed to be useful beyond simple click-and-drag selection. You can customize: - Crosshair line thickness - Crosshair size - Crosshair opacity - Individual colors for each crosshair direction - Center marker appearance - Edge snap distance - High-visibility selection borders - Selection dimensions and coordinate displays Edge snapping also helps users select the exact border of the visible browser area without needing perfect single-pixel mouse positioning. If a selection is too small to create a useful capture, the extension tells you instead of silently failing. And at any time during region selection: Press ESC to cancel capture *Accessibility matters* Dave's PNG Capture was designed with accessibility as a core feature rather than an afterthought. The interface includes: - Adjustable UI scaling - Larger control options - Enhanced keyboard focus indicators - Reduced-motion support - High-visibility selection borders - Accessible light and dark themes - High-contrast themes - A Color Vision Safe theme - Customizable crosshair colors and sizes The default theme uses strong luminance contrast and does not rely solely on subtle color differences to communicate important interface states. The goal is for the extension to remain understandable and usable for people with a wide range of vision needs, including users with color-vision deficiencies. *Privacy by design* Dave's PNG Capture operates locally inside your Chrome browser. The extension does not upload your screenshots to the developer. The developer does not receive, view, collect, or store: - Your screenshots - The websites you capture - The contents of captured regions - Your extension preferences - Your capture history Screenshot pixels are processed locally in your browser while the requested PNG is being created. Once the capture has been completed and handed to Chrome's Downloads system, the extension does not maintain a stored copy of your screenshot. There is no developer-operated screenshot server, cloud capture service, analytics pipeline, advertising system, or remote screenshot database. What you capture is your business. *Customizable without becoming complicated* The main popup stays intentionally small: choose a capture mode and go. More advanced options are available through Settings, including: - Appearance and color themes - Selection tool customization - Capture timing - Accessibility settings - Crosshair configuration - Theme customization - About and policy information Your preferences are stored locally in Chrome so the extension remembers how you like to work. *PNG files designed to behave nicely* Page titles can be extremely long and can contain characters that cause trouble in Windows, Linux, PowerShell, command-line tools, and file managers. Dave's PNG Capture automatically cleans up filenames by: - Limiting the page-title portion of the filename - Replacing spaces with underscores - Replacing incompatible filesystem characters - Adding useful capture information and timestamps The result is a filename that is descriptive without becoming unwieldy. *Great for* Dave's PNG Capture can be useful for: - Website documentation - Technical support - Web development - QA and testing - Analytics dashboards - Reports - Research - Tutorials and training material - Bug reports - Saving receipts or confirmations - Archiving visual information - Capturing long tables or dashboards - Saving a particular section of a webpage - Creating reference images for presentations and documentation *No cloud required* There is no login. There is no account to create. There is no screenshot cloud to manage. There is no requirement to send your capture through somebody else's server just to turn pixels already visible on your screen into a PNG file. Click. Capture. Save. ***Did I mention Free to use! No Paywall! No limits! Just a useable tool, that's it.*** All Dave841 (Dave's) Chrome Extensions are built for himself and shared with the world, I'm just a guy who wants cool extensions to help me in my life, hopefully you find them as helpful as I do. That said, you are responsible for your use or misuse of this extension, I can't imagine anyone trying to find a nefarious purpose for this extension but realize that if you use this in a browser which has private, confidential, personally identifiable information that is your choice. *Policies and disclosures* Disclaimer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UEP8E96i6PuLe1CYWZR2M130PsjSSCEB/view?usp=drive_link Privacy Policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqhpTQb7x8LQNDj3FNIM8qC3Ph0H9loc/view?usp=drive_link Data Practices: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z4iZGAUpi46MxTvhOF8Sq_V2YhkjDJHw/view?usp=drive_link