Snagit Version 10

by TechSmith

Product Features

• Snag anything, on the fly.
• Use the newest capture profile to grab your entire desktop, a region, a window, or a scrolling window all with a single hotkey or click.
• Keep the rounded corners from a captured window or create a custom shape & only background you'll see is the one on your website, document, or slide.
• It's easier than ever to send your captures out for review with built-in, online hosting from Screencast's website.
• Now you can share your images with an embed code or give them a URL with a clickable thumbnail.
• Snagit will automatically move through the page capturing it both vertically and horizontally at your command. Just point and click.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003M73RJO
• Item model number: SNAG01-10
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 14, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #8 in Software > Graphics > Photo Editing
  • #71 in Software > Business & Office

Product Description

Snagit | The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you. Use Snagit to capture any image you want straight off your computer screen. Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Easily organize your images and use them again and again for other projects. Then show off your Snagit creations to anyone. Just add them to your documents and presentations… or share using your favorite applications. It doesn’t take much to explain a concept or an idea with Snagit. The images you create do the talking. And the more you use Snagit, the more ways you’ll find to use it!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT and SIMPLE program, July 14, 2010

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Glenn Cooper (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snagit Version 10 (CD-ROM)

It's rare to come across a program that works this well, and this easy. I've yet to read a single help page or manual, and can do all I want with it to capture screen images. It has these GREAT capture modes - like automatically selecting an obvious object or of automatically scrolling a full web page and capturing that as one image. It works this easy: Start the program, press the big red "capture" button, then press the left mouse button when you've selected what you want (or more correctly, when you see that it has selected what you want). It pops up the screen in the Snagit Editor from where I simply right click > copy and then paste it where I want - an email, a Word Doc, etc. I've also made .PDF documents very easily.

I'm sure that sooner or later I'll need to read at least a little bit of the instruction manual, but it's so great to be up and running with it so fast!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I don't go anywhere without it!, September 10, 2010

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D. Bach "Artist" (Bothell, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snagit Version 10 (CD-ROM)

Fasting shipping, love the product! Snagit is a product you won't want to be without, ever. I even ordered it special at the office, it's so invaluable to me. The large company I work for (can't mention, sorry) agrees that there isn't anything else out there like it and presently offers it as a special request. They promise one day it will be a regular item to download from their standard list of software choices. And why shouldn't it be, it's reasonably priced, easy to use, and the best product for screen capture available. In addition to snagging images and editing, Snagit has separate capture settings for copying Web sites, text, including video and you can even record your screen's action in the AVI format. There are even annotation varieties like arrows, speech bubbles, and more make it easy to customize your captures. With more than 40 ways to capture your screen, what's not to like?! Presently, this software is windows-based only, but there's been such a demand for a mac version it's in beta stage now and I'll be first in line for my other computer! Don't hesitate . . . it's grrreat!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If your job depends on screen captures, you need Snagit, July 23, 2011

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techdad review (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snagit Version 10 (CD-ROM)

Founded in 1987, TechSmith has been a pioneer in screen capture and recording technology for Windows computers since they released Snagit, 20 years ago. How could a company thrive for over 20 years, selling software that does something that the Windows OS has always been able to do for free?

PROS:
- Very easy to use and intuitive
- Numerous capture methods
- Nice image editor
- Many file types supported, including PDF
- Lots of markup options
- Good selection of image effects
- Captures the rounded corners of a window
- Manages screen captures in a library
- Basic screencasting with audio
- Terrific value

CONS:
- Resizing images reduces some image quality
- Save As option seems to get confused changing file types
- Not enough professional-looking stamps
- No "save for web" feature
- No built-in option to start Snagit minimized

I used to use Snagit several years ago to create instructional documents for IT staff. The print screen option in Windows (via the Print Scrn key) created a lot of extra work because I had to crop just the sections I wanted and the resolution wasn't optimal. Snagit was a godsend for its ability to capture just the windows I needed and the resolution was more ideal. Windows print screen hasn't evolved at all, but with the release of Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft added a new tool called the Snipping Tool. The Snipping Tool is better than just print screen, because it allows you to capture windows, rectangular areas, and in free-form. It even allows very basic markups. For the casual user, the Snipping Tool is all you will need. However, the reason why Snagit has been so successful for all these years, is because it's always been able to do more--much more. The Snipping Tool is basically what Snagit was, maybe 10 years ago.

CAPTURES
Snagit 10 can capture a region, windows, fixed region, or active window. It can include or exclude the cursor, capture an entire web page (rather than just what's visible on the screen), capture text and video. Video screen captures are very basic, so any heavy screencasting projects should be done with a dedicated screencasting tool like TechSmith's Camtasia Studio.

Though you can choose specific capture methods, I only use the all-in-one tool because it's drop-dead simple to use. Captures can be outputted to a variety of file formats including PNG, JPG, GIF, and PDF. Capture files are clean, clear and look great. One feature I like is how captures of windows include the curves on the corners. You may not have noticed, but Microsoft Windows windows aren't perfect rectangles; they are curved in the corners. If you use the Snipping Tool, captures are a straight rectangle, which means a portion of the background is captured with it.

EDITOR
When I first began using Snagit 10, I really didn't expect to use the editor. I figured it was just a throw in and it wouldn't be a compelling part of the package. After all, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, GIMP, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Paint.NET for graphics, so what would I need a built-in editor for, right? Simply put, I use it for the incredible selection of markup options. My presentations look professional and clean. There are many options to choose from and their selection of effects are also very cool. In addition to the amazing selection of markup tools, I'm also in love with the blur tool and spotlight & magnify tool. The blur tool allows me to easily blur certain parts of a capture I don't want to share, like serial numbers, names, phone numbers, etc. The spotlight & magnify tool, allows me to put the focus on a specific part of the capture.

The editor isn't perfect, however. I would suggest to TechSmith that they improve the quality of their stamps. Stamps are graphics that look like a hand-drawn circle or maybe a mouse cursor clicking on a button. I really would like to use these stamps but to be perfectly honest, they look amateur-like clip art from the 80s. Also, resizing captures seem to reduce the image quality when compared to the same action in Photoshop Elements. One last feature I would love to see in the Editor, is a "save for web" feature, like in Photoshop Elements. Sometimes my captures end up being rather large in size, so being able to reduce the size without reducing too much of the overall quality would be a huge benefit for me. As it is, I end up working on my captures in both Snagit Editor and Photoshop Elements. I do any resizing, or cropping work in Photoshop and then use the Snagit Editor for the effects and markups.

LIBRARY
The capture library in Snagit Editor is a nice feature. It allows you to keep track of all your captures in a neat, organized fashion. You can tag your captures and then find them later using those tags. The library also organizes images by date and by folders. The lower part of the Editor screen also displays thumbnails of your most recent captures so you can quickly access images you've been working on. The default size of the thumbnails is medium, which I find hard to use since many of my screenshots look pretty similar. Luckily, you can increase the thumbnail size to large. You can also hover over the thumbnails to get a preview of the image but it takes a couple of seconds to display so I prefer just using the large thumbnails to start.

MISC
I prefer to have the Snagit program minimized and out of the way when I begin working. Unfortunately, there is no option to start it up minimized. You have to minimize it yourself when it starts up or manually edit the shortcut to have Windows minimize it on start up. It's not hard to edit the shortcut, but I can't imagine it would take much to add the option to Snagit either.

CONCLUSION
Snagit was a godsend 10 years ago and it's a godsend today. Snagit 10 is the most powerful screenshot program that I know of and is a steal for $50. The efficiency I gain from using it is well worth the price. If you're a teacher, trainer, writer, or someone who needs to take screen captures to do their jobs, it's a no brainer; you need Snagit.

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