Thursday, 11 October 2012

Snagit is a tool that you can use to easily take a snapshot of your screen, edit it, and then send it to an application or website.

It is designed for users with any experience level, as you can clearly see when initiating the software. Two video clips are available in the Snagit Message Center, for both novices (to learn how to get acquainted with Snagit) and power uses (to find out what's new in this version).

The Snagit interface (which is user-friendly and attractive) is mainly divided into five parts - the menu bar, quick launch, related tasks, profiles, and profile settings.

Here, you can choose one of the basic capture shortucts called Profiles - all-in-one, full screen, copy to clipboard (with or without preview), web page as PDF with links, free hand, or menu with time delay.

Below that section you can change the profile settings for a capture - mode and input, output, and effects. Once you have configured this, press the Print Screen key or click the red button. A selection tool that criss-crosses the screen appears, so you can easily choose the part of the screen you want to capture, by using the click-and-drag method.

In the Snagit Editor you can apply touchups to your captures, organize and share them with your friends. You can completely customize Snagit Editor, batch convert images, assign flags (e.g. important, idea, personal), use the library to organize captures, use canvas, add callouts, arrows and stamps, and more.

You can easily get lost in this software. Its user guide and video tutorials are wonderfully built. However, Snagit has its downsides in the trial edition (e.g. you can only capture video up to 2GB). Also, the Editor takes a while to apply effects.

All in all, Snagit definitely deserves to be taken into consideration, whether you already know how to use this type of program or not. It consumes a small amount of system memory, and the price for the full version is cheap



Snagit description



With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology  it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you. Snagit will help you capture any image you want straight off your computer screen.

Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Easily organize your images and use them again and again for other projects.

Then show off your Snagit creations to anyone. Just add them to your documents and presentations… or share using your favorite applications. It doesn’t take much to explain a concept or an idea with Snagit. The images you create do the talking. And the more you use Snagit, the more ways you’ll find to use it!
Here are some key features of "Snagit":

Combine images:
· Create custom graphics easily by taking multiple captures and putting them together.

Spotlight and magnify:
· Draw attention to a specific part of your image. Just select the portion you want and Snagit will blur and darken everything else.

Markup tools:
· Add effects to your image, even if you don't have a design degree. Draw attention with arrows, add a text callout or torn edge effect…just to name a few.

Auto-storing:
· All of your captures are automatically saved to your Library with the most recent viewable all the time. Save time by quickly finding all your past captures.

Tagging:
· Along with saving your capture, Snagit also stores information so you can find it again later. Search for your captures by date, website, or a custom flag that you create and assign.
Requirements:

· 2.4 GHz single core processor (2.4 GHz dual core required for video).
· 1 GB of RAM (2 GB required for video).
· 125 MB of free hard disk space.
· Internet Explorer 8.0 or later.
· .NET 4.0 or later required for video.
· Video capture on Windows 7 requires Windows 7 supported video and audio hardware.
· Video capture on Windows 7 N requires the Media Feature Pack for Windows 7 N.
· Snagit add-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook works with Office 2000, Office XP or later.
· Snagit requires Active Accessibility 2.0 to capture links from web pages.



What's new in Snagit 11.1.0 Build 248:

October 9th, 2012

· Added system audio recording.
· Added Video COM support.
· Updated the look of Snagit Editor's toolbars and added a File tab.
· Resolved the DLL Preloading Vulnerability due to Snagit loading libraries with elevated privileges.
· Fixed a scrolling bug in Firefox that results in a corrupt image if Firefox's zoom setting is set to anything but 100%.
· Fixed a bug where Snagit failed to capture a web page's URL in Chrome.
· Fixed a video recording bug that resulted in green ghosting when attempting to record the taskbar.
· Fixed a bug where Snagit activated a webcam on start up.
· Fixed a bug where the second arrow added to a line does not match the first arrow.

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