So if the provided defaults aren’t good enough, you can adjust to your hearts content. Snagit will also allow you to adjust certain options, such as width, opacity, or fonts. With a variety of tools to choose from, you have the ability to enhance your screenshot before saving it or sending it off to a friend or relative. It’s incredibly simple to use, since all you have to do is click an option, then draw it on your screenshot. Since the tools pane is all we have to work with, that’s what I’ll cover. Along the bottom we have our standard crop, zoom, and pan tools, along with our navigation bar where we can work with multiple snapshots. On the right side you have a tools & effects pane (the effects pane being temporarily unavailable during beta) where you can pick and choose just what exactly you want to put on your snapshot (arrows, lines, text, blur, etc). This is where you’ll crop your picture and apply your edits. At the center of it all, you have your snapshot. If you’re familiar with Camtasia Studio, the layout is pretty similar. Once in the editor, there’s lot of really cool things you can do here. All you have to do is select the window you want a Snapshot of, and Snagit will capture it with a single click.

No matter how many windows are on screen, Snagit will take those windows and portray them in a sort of Exposé mode. Like All-in-One Capture, it also features some nifty transitions. Window Capture allows you to focus on specific onscreen windows to take snapshots of. Pressing the escape key will exit the capture. Letting go of the left mouse button will take your snapshot and toss you into the editor.

Once you hold down the left mouse button, the screen dims and you can begin to select the area you want to take a snapshot of. If you pause, a pop up hud will display the resolution of the current screen area selected (or the resolution of the monitor if nothing is selected), and will also display a magnified pixel-per-pixel view of the area at the center of the crosshairs. Selecting an area (aka “All-in-One Capture”) presents you with a pair of orange crosshairs that you can move around the screen.

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