VB Doodle

VB Doodle is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you take screenshots and edit them.

Look for the program in the system tray

The tool resides in the system tray and provides easy access to its functions. As soon as you take a snapshot, VB Doodle automatically reveals the suite of available editing options. You can preview the captured photo in a dedicated panel.

Editing and exporting features

There’s support for only two modes for capturing images of your desktop: full screen and active window. You cannot capture a user-defined area of interest, application, and object.
Drawing utilities can be used for personalizing the photos and highlighting important ideas. You can draw free-hand designs using a pen, insert rectangles, circles, and lines, as well as use a marker and eraser.
In addition, you can change the color and size of the pen, and embed user-defined text messages which can be altered in terms of font, size, color, and bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough options.
The captured images can be exported to JPG, BMP or GIF file format. In addition, you can copy screenshots to the clipboard or print them. You can also add an image from your computer and edit it.

Configuration settings and performance

A few tweaking parameters help you set up a hotkey for taking screenshots in full screen mode, run the application at Windows startup, and configure the default editing tool, color, size, and font.
Tests have shown that VB Doodle executes tasks quickly and delivers very good output quality. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

Bottom line

All things considered, VB Doodle is useful if you want to quickly capture essential parts of your projects and annotate them. It does not offer support for advanced features so you cannot assign hotkey for triggering diverse functions, set the delay time before taking screenshots, add shadow, embed text/image watermarks, and include or exclude the mouse cursor, just to name a few suggestions.