SnagIt: An Amazing Screen Capture and Image Editing Software

A picture is worth thousand words and now a days it’s quite a must to display some screen captures and photos along with the content on your site and presentations you create to make them more appealing and easy to understand to your readers.

SnagIt, is a product from TechSmith, does an outstanding job of capturing screens and image editing. SnagIt lets you select any area of your screen, could be an error message or a dialogue box or a small portion of screen displaying some grapgh, capture it, edit and save in different file formats.

» SnagIt has built-in editor that lets you edit the picture to add different shapes or objects such as Arrows, Lines, Shapes, Callouts, Cursors, Stamps and Text to enhance and make your screen capture look much better.

» That’s not all of it. SnagIt will also let you add effects to your captures and most of these effects are similar to the effects in professional image editing softwares such as Photoshop, Paint Shop etc. A quick rundown of these effects:

• Give edge effects such as shadow, sharktooth edge and beveled edge to your captures
• Add nice looking borders to your image
• Add digital processing effects such as blur, sharp and embossing
• Embedding watermarks in your images is very easy with this tool

» You can even add a flash hotspot to your captures using SnagIt. This will enable you to add hot spot in selected areas within an image, which upon hovering will display text based information.

» The video capture feature will let you create short videos as a result of capturing your own desktop and add text to it. This is very handy for people looking to create tutorials and quick presentations.

» Using another great feature to capture text from your screen, you can capture text from screens which were previously difficult to capture and edit, such as capture of a listing of your playlist or listing of files/folders in windows explorer. After capturing, the text becomes editable for you to take it further.

» If Video and Text capture features have impressed you, Web capture will add to it. Simply point the tool to a web site/page’s address, mention what you want to capture and it will do the rest. It’s capable of downloading images, documents and excel sheets etc. Check this link for a list of all features of SnagIt.

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