I love the fact that SnagIt 8 has all the tools you need in one place – changing tabs is like walking into another room and it just slows me down. Ok, I admit that if they manage to fix the fact that the quick styles keep being lost (and kept in view every time) it’ll make things slightly better, but nevertheless for my workflow – which is nothing special – it would mean a lot of flitting between the ‘Draw’ and ‘Image’ tabs and indeed that’s been the frustration. Now to add the edge effect, as usual it’s forgotten my quick style so I click Edges > Torn Edges and set the values I want (click ‘Add to Quick Styles’ and hope it’s there next time).Click Resize > Resize image – pretty much the same as SnagIt 8.Ok, time to resize the image, that means clicking the ‘Image’ tab.Now to draw the arrow I’ll have to go back to point 3, but click the arrow instead of the box button – sigh.Click the arrow next to ‘Styles’ to add the current style to ‘Quick Styles’ knowing it’ll be forgotten later.Next click Effects > Shadow > More Shadows so that I can change the default shadow (note that in SnagIt 8 I’d do this once only and it would be remembered for ever more).Use the default box and draw it, then click the ‘Outline’ button and choose the red colour I prefer to the default dark red (note that red isn’t in any of the presets).Click the drop-down next to the styles to find one I’ve saved before in ‘Quick Styles’ noting that after a reboot my quick style has disappeared so I have to….Click the ‘box’ button and find that it’s chosen the default one and not the one I want so I have to….Now I have to do the following (and note that I’m assuming I’ve run through the process before so SnagIt should really remember my presets like SnagIt 8 does): In SnagIt 9, things are no longer as simple. Click the ‘Edge Effects’ button then choose ‘Torn Edge’.Click the ‘Resize Image’ button on the right and choose the size.Click the ‘arrow’ tool and draw an arrow.In SnagIt 8 I’d do the following (and I’m assuming I’ve run through the process previously and SnagIt has saved my preferences): I’ll capture an image, draw some boxes and arrows, resize it, add a torn edge effect and save. And in a straw poll of one person (me) I have to say that SnagIt 9 has actually made my life harder and as a result I’ve rolled back to version 8 – the first time I’ve ever preferred an older product over a new one. OK, there may have been a lot of thought about it, but unlike the Office team TechSmith didn’t have the usability statistics to see how people actually use the product. While the ribbon looks sexy in SnagIt, it’s pretty clear that not a great deal of thought went into deciding what goes where. After struggling with it for a bit myself I have to admit that Office is far better for the new ribbon. However Microsoft put a great deal of effort into deciding what controls to put on which section of the ribbon so that commonly used controls lived next to each other and were easy to discover. When Microsoft introduced the ribbon a lot of people complained – people hate change after all. and when you click on one it reveals a bunch of related controls). The first thing to note is that it uses the fancy new Ribbon control that was introduced by Microsoft in Office 2007 (it’s the strip at the top of the dialog labelled Draw, Image, Hotspots, Tags, etc. Since everything is in one place it takes the minimal number of mouse clicks, all the tools such as the arrow tool remember the settings I’d used before (such as the colour, thickness and depth of shadow) so once I’ve used SnagIt one time it’ll remember everything from then on. I frequently capture an image, draw some boxes, arrows and text on it, then add an edge effect – usually that torn paper one – then resize it and save it. The image you’ve captured is in the middle and all effects are on the right such as resizing the image, adding a drop shadow, a torn effect (which is what I’ve used), adding a caption and so on. The tools you need are on the left, such as boxes, arrows, highlighter, text and so forth. You can then annotate it all you want and save it in the format of your choice.
You click a button and it captures either a window or you can draw a box around what you’re interested in.
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It’s fantastic for putting together documentation or explaining to someone how to use a piece of software. It’s a great tool for taking screenshots of things and adding boxes, arrows and a variety of effects to explain something. I’ve been an avid user of SnagIt for a few years now.
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