Show, don't tell: 6 great tools for capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots

November 20, 2013

Snapping and sharing screenshots is invaluable. Whether you need to offer a quick bit of tech support to a client or a fellow worker, document a procedure for an in-house manual, or produce professional-looking screenshots for a promotional website, these handy utilities will help. Several are cross-platform, and most of them are free. Snagit $50 Snagit bills itself as "the ultimate screen capture tool," and it is indeed a powerhouse. Snagit's interface is divided into a capturing utility and an image editor. The capture tool works with presets: You can decide whether or not you want to capture the mouse cursor along with the screenshot, if you want a delayed capture, and even capture a scrolling window (Snagit will scroll it for you and produce one long image). Snagit's editor is full-featured and versatile. Snagit's editor is equally powerful, letting you apply effects such as drop-shadow, resize and crop your image, add text and callouts, and more. Because of this division of labor, you can use the editor to annotate screenshots captured using other tools, too, and even just plain photos. Because Snagit tries to do so much, it isn't the most elegant of tools. Chances are it can do whatever you need it to do, but this flexibility means there are many settings to fiddle with. I tested the Windows edition, but it's available for Mac as well. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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