Captures are automatically saved in a proprietary. When your image or video capture is complete, it is sent to the Snagit Editor, which has a large selection of vector drawing tools to change, annotate, and dress up your images. The All in One capture also has a small magnification window near the crosshairs, allowing you to select with more precision. If you want to pick your own screen region to capture, just click and drag the crosshairs. This scrolling window trick doesn’t just work with Web browsers I used it to capture the entire contents of my Applications folder. Moving the cursor onto a Web browser’s content area resizes the selection to the content, and if the window is scrollable, clicking a yellow arrow at the bottom or sides of the selection area automatically scrolls and captures the window contents. If you move the cursor over a window, the selection area automatically resizes to the window’s dimensions. As you move the cursor around the screen, a border appears around different regions on your desktop. After you invoke the capture, crosshairs appear on the screen. This single capture type allows you to capture the whole screen, a selected region, a window, or the entire contents of a scrolling window, including a web page. The primary capture mode-and the one you will probably use the most-is the All in One capture. If you don’t like the capture palette, Snagit also installs a menubar extra that has access to the same features.Ĭapture Palette: Snagit’s Capture Palette discreetly loiters at the edge of your screen until you’re ready to snap a picture. Clicking the tab slides the palette out to display two capture mode buttons (image or video) a large red capture button a button that toggles the cursor’s visibility in the capture a button that places the capture on the Clipboard a field that displays (and lets you change) the main capture hotkey and buttons that open Snagit’s image editor, the help system, and displays additional capture options. The unique capture palette normally hides at the right side of your screen, with only a small tab visible. Snagit 2.1.5, by Techsmith, is a full-featured image and video screen capture application that should be at the top of your consideration list.Īfter installing Snagit (which ideally should be set as a login application), there are three default ways to invoke a capture. Screen capture keyboard shortcuts and the Grab application). If you need to take a lot of screenshots, chances are you’re going to want more capabilities than you can get from the two methods provided with the Mac (the

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