Techsmith SnagIt Screen Capture Review

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johncart's Review of Techsmith SnagIt Screen Capture

14th Jan 2006

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
Good Points

Easy to use - even for novices
Huge number of features
Good support
Well priced (around $40.00)


Bad Points

None!


General Comments

The Techsmith SnagIt Screen Capture software package captures images (and a lot more) using a Capture Profile. SnagIt provides a large number of standard Capture Profiles, which you can use, edit or delete.

You can define whether to capture the whole screen, part of it, just the active window, a fixed region on screen, a manually specified region, a specific object or menu. You can even capture a 'freehand' area.

You can automatically apply effects or edit the image in a clipboard view (or create a file and edit it later using the SnagIt Editor). The Editor can do a huge number of image manipulation tasks.

You can specify the format of the captured image from a huge list of graphics file types - so you don't get stuck with the huge .BMP image file you get from using Ctrl+PrintScreen.

You can specify the output type: Clipboard (or none), file, email, printer, IM program, FTP or any appropriate program you have installed.

Then there is text capture, web page capture, DirectX capture (for taking in-game screenshots to PROVE to your mates that you killed that Boss!), and video capture (although Techsmith do another product that does this last item better - Camtasia).

SnagIt is currently on release v7.2.5. I have been using it for around 5 years (since version 5.x). Each release is very stable and provides more and more features (which you can choose to ignore if you so wish).

This application plays well with NT4.0, Win2K and WinXP, and integrates with MS Office, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and IE. I can't comment on earlier OS's because I have not used it on these.

My main use of this product is for helping to describe software bugs to developers, creating PowerPoint shows for product demos, illustrating User Manuals and capturing online receipts from purchases I have made.

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