While evaluating and reviewing TechSmith's Camtasia product, my curiosity
got the better of me when I was exploring the CD they sent me, and I stumbled
upon their image capture tool, Snag-It.
To be honest, I use many capture tools during the course of my day
depending upon the task at hand. I've never really found one capture tool that had all
the features I needed -- until maybe now.
Snag-It
absolutely takes the
cake for image capture. Pound for pound it has more features than any other
such tool I have come across to date.
To say that Snag-It
is feature-rich is an under-statement, and I would need a great deal of room
to explain all of its nuances. Rather than compare and contrast products in
the same class, I want to focus on a few features that put Snag-It
in a class of its own.
First, Snag-It
enables you to capture and send the results to a file, the clipboard, the web,
the printer or to an email all simultaneously. This means that once Snag-It
is configured to your liking, you can capture and print all in the same mouse
click -- repeatedly, over and over again. This feature is great for
documentation where you are trying to describe how to use an application.
Second, the AutoScroll feature enables you to capture
the image beyond the visible screen, so now you can capture a web page in its entirety
in a single file instead of slicing and dicing a web page to bits.
Third, Snag-It
has the ability to capture full motion, so you can create short movies to
demonstrate how to use a feature of an application.
Lastly, Snag-It
has built-in graphics editing and image annotation tools. You can capture an
image and annotate it and edit it all from within Snag-It
-- no third-party tools required.
All in all, when compared to other image capture tools, it's
hard to beat Snag-It.
To download a free trial, click here.
