1) Start Program.
You can't do much until you start the program.

2) Select Modifier for Hotkey
We like to use F11 as our hotkey. The hotkey is the key you push to make the screen capture happen. If you have software that uses the F11 key, then try adding Alt, Control, or Shift to F11 so that the F11 by itself will function normally in your programs.

3) Select directory where images are to be stored.
To do this, click on the white box in the upper left corner of the olive colored area. It might look a little like directory tree. That was the idea anyway. Click on this button. That will open the directory selection box. Select a directory and come back to the main program. Whatever directory is printed to the side of the white box is the target directory.

4) Select the name root.
The file name root is the front part of all screen captures made during this session. We prefill with "kapr" so the box isn't empty. You may want to select a more discriptive name for whatever project your are working on that requires the screen captures.

5) Select a color depth.
The 8bit 256 color images are smaller (480k) but they have fewer colors to work with. The 24bit color images have practially infinite number of colors but they are larger in size (1.4 meg). If you aren't sure which to use select the 24bit color. By the way, we selected these two color depths because they work well with PhotoShop.

6) Press the Switch ON button.
The "Switch On" button is in the upper left corner of the program. When you press this switch several things happen.

• The HotKey is registered with windows so that the program can do screen captures.
  
• The various options on the screen are disabled so that you can't muck around while the program is in its delicate running state
  
• Some images change on the screen so that hopefully you can tell that the program is now ready to capture screen shots
  

Above is a screen shot of Kap-R in the running state. Notice the Hotkey modifier buttons and the color depth buttons are turned off. This will help to prevent Kap-R getting confused during processing.