Mazio

Mazio enables you to take screenshots in several ways, draw on them, make adjustments, and save them to file, and upload them to a few hosting websites.
This is an approachable software tool that includes intuitive options, which even casual users can quickly figure out.

Setup and UI

The installation procedure is fast and shouldn't give you any trouble, thanks to the fact that the wizard has familiar steps. The only notable aspect is that the application needs .NET Framework in order to work properly.
It's wrapped in a user-friendly interface, where you can capture the full screen, all screens (for systems with multi-monitor support), or custom region. Keyboard shortcuts are supported in this regard.

Capture, edit, save and upload snapshots

The grabbed image is added to the main window, where you can draw two types of arrows, lines, ellipses and rectangles, use a pencil tool, add text, draw magnifying glasses and censorship bars, as well as insert local images into the current one.
Moreover, you can crop the picture, zoom in and out, save it with its full size to PNG, JPG or MAZ (Mazio) format, adjust the JPEG quality, undo and redo actions, copy the image to the Clipboard, as well as upload it to Flickr, Jira Server, Picasa, or Skitch. The picture can be cleared to replace it with a new one.

Evaluation and conclusion

It had minimal impact on the overall performance of the computer in our tests, running on a low amount of CPU and RAM. It captured, saved and uploaded pics swiftly, without triggering the operating system to hang, crash or prompt error messages.
Too bad that it hasn't been updated for a while. Other than that, Mazio facilitates a simple environment for taking screenshots to save locally or upload on the web.