Description

When you're trying to explain an error message, show your geeky friend a strange quirk that keeps cropping up on your computer, when you're trying to share information from a web page or save it for posterity, it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Snagit from Techsmith is a great way to capture all or a portion of your computer screen. We'll show you how.

Transcript

Hi this is Michael Han doctor file finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on capturing the screen with SnagIt. Now I’ve got SnagIt upon the screen, I’ve also got the TechSmith web page who makes SnagIt. Go there download the program, install it and then open it up. Now SnagIt is an amazing program for capturing the screen that has huge number of configure with options. In this tutorial we are just going to look at capturing a region of the screen, but SnagIt can capture text, it can capture scrolling windows, it can capture video and much more. Well with SnagIt open you see we have some basic capture profiles here, window full screen, scrolling window. So we’ll select the region and then we’ll click this red capture button. You can also use a half key. When the SnagIt disappears we’ll go up here, you see the little hand with the crosses, left click, pull down and see there in red, its outlining the area we want to capture, when I got exactly what I want I let go and it will opens up and Snag Its’ built in editor. If I want I can make all kinds of changes that can create hotspots, I can put on tags and arrows and color and much more. But for today I just wan to save it so I click up here the little icon with the S for SnagIt, click save as. You can see I have a variety of formats. I can save it on the graphics format, a SnagIt capture file on Adobe PDF, or an Abode flash file. But today I am just going to pick a standard format, widow comes up it gives the default name within the date and then time and it’s currently save it as a PNG, I’ll click save and that’s all the risk to it.