You probably won’t use this one much directly because you can set up multiple keyboard shortcuts. It is screen-capture software, after all.

Effects (color adjustment, dimming, borders, etc.)Īdditionally, Snagit has a Capture tool.

The UI has 5 major components, and you will be interacting with most of the time.

You learn what stuff does almost immediately. Snagit does a lot, like I said, and the Snagit Editor UI itself is intuitive. (It’s what I personally did, and I bought the full version before my time ran out.)įor this article, I want to walk you through some of Snagit’s primary features, primarily the ones that the Content Team uses for the Elegant Themes blog on a day-to-day basis. Plus, Techsmith offers a free trial, so you can see for yourself whether or not it’s worth picking up.

Snagit also automatically puts captures into the editor, eliminating the extra step of finding and loading the new file you created. And more than that, you don’t have to bounce between multiple programs. Why would you pay $49.95 for something that you could ostensibly do with the Print Screen button?īecause Snagit just kind of does it better. Not to mention any kind of arrows, notes, resizing, and effects could be done in any of those as well. We can resize images easily in Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET, whatever. After all, MacOS has Grab, and Windows has the Snipping Tool.

And because of being branded that way, a lot of folks (myself included) didn’t see what the big deal was.

Snagit scrolling screenshot