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1. #USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE FULL#
2. #USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE PC#
3. #USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE WINDOWS#

I should point that the only gotcha I found is that the latest two versions take some time to load and run. I have to say that SnagIt always impressed me very well because of its stability and rich feature set, and it keeps improving over the years. Indeed, I've been using the new version since very short.

And as always happen, too, this little program does a lot of things I didn't discover yet. The new preview window not only allows you to check how the screenshot looks, but also to edit it, replacing color, applying batch changes, effects, scaling, etc.Īs usual with this column, the tool deserves much coverage than what I can include.

#USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE WINDOWS#

Yes, you can print to SnagIt and get an image of what could be sent to the printer (cool, isn't it?).Īdded to this, you have lots of options as getting the scrolling regions, capturing or not the mouse pointer, getting video from your screen activity, get off-screen windows content, send the image right to your desktop wallpaper, or to an email recipient, and more.īut after capturing any image, you still have a lot of chances. Other features allow you to grab all the images from a Web page in a single pass, slippery pop-up menus, the clipboard contents, DOS screens, DirectX or DVD content, scanner or cameras pictures, just the text from some of these sources, or your printer output. When you select this option, the tool captures the content of a Window starting on the visible part, and all the way down to where it needs to be scrolled.

#USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE FULL#

Some of the cool features around capturing is the ability to capture scrolling windows, which I use to get the full covers of this magazine.

#USES OF SNAGIT TOOL IN AGILE PC#

Let's take a look at the main screen, and then go into some of the features I like most.Īs you can see, SnagIt doesn't just captures anymore, but actually allows you to edit and organize the images you grab from several sources as: the whole PC screen, a specific Window or region, a particular object, etc. The latest version, released at the end of last year, added a few more nice details and productivity features to the already impressive list. SnagIt ( This little product from TechSmith is commercial, but not too expensive, at USD 39.95, considering all the features it packs, which you can check for yourself by checking the 30-days trial.Īs I said, SnagIt is basically a screen capture tool, but as it has been on the market for so much time (this is one of the first products exclusively oriented to do this that I remember), it is very complete, although I don't consider it feature-bloated. Using JPG screen-captures in documents or web sites produce badly readable text and a poor presentation. This have to be used for real-life pictures, where the importance is in the color quantity. Never use JPG or other format more oriented to compress high quality pictures.

Always use plain-color formats like GIF or PNG for desktop applications without much picture quality, and you'll get crisper images (like the ones we try to present always at this magazine). One small tip that can be helpful no matter what method or tool you use. Indeed, I remember I started using it under (Ugh!) Windows 3.11 in the early nineties. I'm using one of these since many years ago: SnagIt from TechSmith.

You can do it with ALt+PrtScrn and the more than limited Paint, or you can use some of the several screen capture tools available on the market. DescriptionAt some point on your work as a developer, you face the need to document your applications, or you need to prepare presentations, articles or just some advertising, and you need to get some screenshots from your cool user interfaces.