Taking a screenshot can be so quick and short task for you that you don’t want to buy some heavy softwares available like winsnap, snagit etc. Screenshot Taker is the most simplest tool to take a screenshot of the a specific screen area or the complete screen with in single click.
After installing screenshot taker you can either click the first button to choose area of the screen or click the second button to choose the entire screen. This small software is really simple and meant to do screen capturing with any funky or confusing menus and options.
If you are looking for straight forward simple tool for screen capturing and it automatically saves the image as .jpg, how ever it does not support any hot key activation to run the program.