Maybe I’m a little slow, but I just spent about an hour looking for a freeware app to just take a snapshot from my webcam and save it as a jpeg. I know this is a simple function that is included in just about every webcam software out there. But, I didn’t want to install a full video editing suite or a webcam package. Just take a snapshot. That’s all I want!
Well, lucky me. I discovered the Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard, which is located in your Start Menu Accessories folder. I’d used this before to download photos from my digital camera. But, I never realized that it works great with a webcam as well. If you have a webcam, I’d recommend giving the Scanner and Camera Wizard a try. It’s really slick for grabbing a quick photo and saving it as a jpeg.
