Thread: Image Editors pick

QUITE SIMPLY PUT, Tech¬smith's Snag It 9.0 is a top-of¬the-line screen capture and image editing tool. Not just limited to capturing your Desktop, you can select images from a Web page (keeping links intact), capture text. and even record screen video. The latest version, SnagIt 9.0, extensively improves upon menu display and navigation. After installation, and at first run, the program prompts you to choose a profile. This is where you get to see the whole gamut of SnagIt's functionality with regards to screen capture. You can configure time delays before freezing a frame and then edit it.

In order to help you stop wasting time searching for routine functions and commands, the image editor is jazzed up to make them all easily accessible. The linear workflow environment is realigned to sport a similar navigation toolbar (the ribbon inter- face) to Microsoft Office. It simplifies work a lot. You can choose a lot of effects and save images in a variety of file formats.



Snag It's Preview Window opens up every time you take a screen capture, and then you fix or add effects to your image in the editor. Another new feature that SnagIt 9.0 has is the ability to export image projects to MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Other accessories include Firefox integration, options to upload screen captures on Flickr, your blog or an FTP server. SnagIt also keeps track of all the images ever captured or edited through the program; so searching for a particular image edited in the past is easier. Images can also be properly man¬aged by tagging them with flags.

Designing a professional quality presentation or creating a step¬by-step on-screen software tutorial is made a lot simpler using a feature-rich tool like SnagIt 9.0. Listing all its new features goes beyond this article, so do check it out.