My love affair with SnagIt

This post written by Sean Conta, Founder & CXO

Besides web browsers, the program that I use most often and most successfully is definitely SnagIt. If you haven’t heard of it, SnagIt (made by TechSmith) is a screen capture tool plus an image editor. Basically it lets you capture an image of what’s on your screen (or a portion of it) and then you can edit that image, move things around and add text and arrows and stuff. That’s just the basics really, it does a whole lot more.

~disclaimer - there is no disclaimer! I have no relationship with TechSmith - I just love SnagIt!!~

I’ve used SnagIt for a few years now and I’d like to think I’m pretty good with it. But the best part of the program is that it doesn’t take long to get good with it. The Editor portion of the program has just enough of what you want to do. It’s like Photoshop but without all the slew of tools and buttons that you can’t easily figure out how to use and wow there are a lot of them and man all you really want to do is grab this line of text and move it a few pixels down! With the SnagIt editor you just draw a box around it and move it.

We find SnagIt invaluable for quickly testing out interface ideas or making mockups or pointing out something in an interface.

Enough said - if you’re at all curious they have a free 30 day trial. Seriously now, I don’t know anyone at TechSmith!! But maybe they’ll send me a T-shirt??

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This entry was posted on March 25, 2009 at 7:33 pm and is filed under Features and Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “My love affair with SnagIt”

  1. Matthew Skywalker Says:
    April 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    All I gotta say as a programmer, is being able to capture scrolling text (in a dropdown) is priceless…awesome for doing up specs.

  2. Brian FitzGerald Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Mr. Sean,

    SnagIt’s cool, but what do you think about Fireshot?? Free plugin for firefox, offers all the goodies and more :)

    Well, maybe not all, but still a damn good tool IMO.

    Cheers,
    BFitz

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