Magazine
Snagit
5/31/2012 By: Carol S. Holzberg
www.techsmith.com Retail Price: $29.95, educational pricing. Volume pricing
available.
The latest release of Snagit from TechSmith (available
for both Mac and Windows) offers digital “publishers”
a very helpful tool for adding visual impact to electronic
documents.
Quality and Effectiveness: Snagit does much more than
simple screen capture. Version 2.0 for Mac and Version
11.0 for Windows add support for video, giving users tools to capture
narrated clips of screen activity in addition to static screens. Teachers
interested in showing students how to use a feature in a particular
software program can create narrated step-by-step tutorials. Thanks to
a powerful editor, users can still crop, resize, or select a portion of the
screen for copying, cutting, adding callouts, and other image effects.
Ease of Use: Editor tools in Snagit toggle on or off. Each tool can
be customized to suit user
needs. On the PC side
you can create profiles for
capture tasks and download
additional profiles from
the Snagit Web site. Mac
doesn’t have options
for profiles, but you can
customize the tools in the
editing palette and save
those customized tools for
later reuse.
TOP FEATURES
• Captures both static and moving
screens with or without time delay.
• Comes with an editor to add special
effects or markup the captured screen
with annotations, stamps and filters.
• Sharing options allow users to send
images to social media sites or copy
images to the Clipboard for pasting in
other programs.