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2. You have an image and you want to edit it tomake it look more professional or more fun orwhatever. You want to do one or more of thefollowing: Crop it or cut out or blur pieces to keep itprivate. Resize it precisely for a website or other job. Add text or arrows etc. Or any number orstamps. Add a border. Or two. Play with the perspective or add a reflection. Combine it with another screen shot or make acollage with a number of screen shots 3. Snagit by TechSmith the Rolls Royce of screencaptures Snagit does everything from taking screencaptures, to screen recordings, and lets you shareeverything in a myriad ways. It is hyper-flexible! Cost: $49.95 (shoppers like the # 9) 4. Jing (TechSmiths free app) similar to Snagit, fewerfeatures CaptureMe (free) floating window always up front InstantShot (free) multiple & pre-configuredscreenshots Backdrop (free) provides custom backdrop forscreenshots Paparazzi (freeware) screenshots of webpages Constrictor ($10) resizable, moveable snapshotutility iShowU ($20) record audio & video instantly Layers ($25) all items on screen as psd layeredimage Other Similar ProgramsOnde ($30) full featured program (similar to Snagit) Little Snapper ($40) pixel perfect + organize tools Snapz Pro ($69) full featured program (similar to 5. Skitch and Snagit are similar. Skitch is cuter and smaller but it is not so intuitiveto set up and use. If you take a few screen captures to upload toFacebook or email to your kids Skitch or Jing arethe ones for you. Snagit is a big, beautiful, full-featured program witha ton of functionality. If you want to use graphics for the web or printedmaterials (books, manuals, leaflets, flyers etc.)then Snagit may be the program for you. 6. You have to open Snagit to use it but when you openit nothing much happens except for this funny thingthat pops out at the side and tends gets in your way.If it isnt there the screen capture doesnt work. You can use Snagit as a quick and easy screencapture and I did for quite a while which wasstupid and a shame. I selected Cmd+Opt+P for Print Screen. File Menu > Preferences > Keyboard. 7. This is a little tray that youcan set to lurk (show) or hide. Window Menu (show or hide) Preferences > General >Show Snagit CaptureWindow (at top) Capture a picture or video (w/shortcut) Show or hide the cursor Capture to clipboard or not Open Editor | Help | Additional Options 8. Show and Tell 9. Save to clipboard (as a preference) or temporarily(using Capture window) Default sharing options to email, ftpprogram, Screencast.com, Camtasia Studio andYouTube. Social network sharing available, includingFacebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. Note sharing including OneNote, Evernote etc. Save to File including Word, PowerPoint, Excel Save graphics as jpg, png, tiff, gif, bmp or snagproj Send to printer or pdf 10. Techsmiths web hosting (Tech cloud!) http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing-what-is-screencastcom.html 2 GB of storage pm 2 GB of bandwidth Free. Lossless images Great video quality 11. The Help Manual is a mixed bag Havent had to use it much The pages with graphics are a bit more helpfulthan those without They often assume prior knowledge The help about the Capture Window for example iswrong in places (maybe it hasnt been updatedfrom a previous version). The TechSmith Video Tutorials are great. 12. Jing Snagit Screencast.com TSs private video/image hosting site Camtasia video recording/editing software Camtasia Relay recordmeetings, lectures, presentations Morae research tool for tech pax/businesses/schoolsetc. Coachs Eye iOS5 app to capture, analyze, sharevideos The Forge web shows Flipped Classroom TSs products used extensively.More... 13. TechSmith Video Tutorials YouTube http://youtu.be/zQ_933X9vQU General Intro http://youtu.be/dViND8KsZDE The Editor http://youtu.be/aTbT0K1ofkM New features inSnagit 11 Snagit Guide tips, tricks and secrets Some tutorials show Windows version of Snagit Many tutorials show Snagit 10 (the older version) 14. TechSmith was founded in 1987 byWilliam Hamilton, who remains thecompanys president today. He was asked in a recent interviewwhere he thought his field/industrywas headed : I wish I knew the answer to that.Wherever its going, its going toget there fast. Thats been thecommon denominator: things aregoing to change dramatically andits going to happen quite rapidly.Its that energy and buzz thatmakes this a great industry to bein."