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Capture Screenshots Quicker and Easier with “SnagIt”
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on Monday, September 28, 2009 
at 11:20 AM 
in Since I’ve been working with computers I can’t imagine how many times I’ve hit that “Print screen button”… if I had a nickel 
. The print screen / screen shot key is probably one of the best features on the key board (except for Ctrl + Alt + Del of course). But as helpful as a screen shot can be to show off your software product, latest pc error message to send to IT, or your high score in Tetris it can also be time consuming to bring it into paint, photoshop, whatever you use to edit and crop it down.
So I wanted to bring attention to a piece of software I started using a few months ago to speed up my production on producing screen shots for emails, powerpoints, ect.
A program called “Snag It” by Tech Smith.
Snag It allows you to capture content on your screen in an easier way. You can select the area you want to capture by drawing a square around it instead of capturing the whole screen and cropping it down. Or select the one of your six windows open on your screen you’d like to capture. Even capture a scrolling window instead of piecing it together in an editing program.
Snag It has more options than that and you can see them in the image below but those are the most common functions I use.
Everything is also stored in your Snag It library so if you hit your screen shot key a 2nd time it won’t over ride your first screen shot. The software also allows you to do some minor editing of the images by adding drop shadows, arrows, text, call outs and more.
But you can check out all these features on their website – http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp
Tech Smith offers a free trial download so test it out and see if you like it – if you do let other’s know about your exspeirience by posting in the comments section below.
