We often read some documents with illustrates, such as software tutorial, electronic book, on-line help, courseware, lantern slide and so on. The illustrates can make our learning very easy and more effective. I am a technician of the customer service department and my job is resolve questions which our customer have inquired. I usually use illustrates in the document in order that my customer can understand the solution easily. So a powerful screen capture tool is very important for us. Fortunately, thank for Techsmith Corporation, the publisher of SnagIt, the powerful and full-functions screen capture tool. Do you know that?

SnagIt allows us to capture, manage, manipulate, and print images, text and video. We can capture the entire screen, a window, or any specified selection, and the save it in 23 file formats, print it or send it by email. SnagIt is capable of capturing menus, the entire contents of scrolling windows (e.g web pages), DirectX sources such as games and DOS screens, and desktop animations sequences. It also includes tools for image editing, as well as adjustments of brightness, contrast, hue, sharpness, scale, color reduction and more.

The detailed functions and benefits of SnagIt include: Capture Anything - With SnagIt, capturing anything on our screen is just a few clicks away. SnagIt is easy to use but powerful enough to handle all of our custom screen capture and editing tasks. What To Capture - This brief review of just a few of SnagIt most commonly used screen capture modes can help us choose the best one for the task at hand. Region Screen Capture - Select a specific rectangular region of the screen that we want to capture. Quickly capture an image, or part of a Web page, to edit and share. Scrolling Window Screen Capture - Capture all of the contents of any window or Web page that has a scrollbar.

SnagIt automatically scrolls the window during the screen capture, so we get all of the images and text in the window. This capture mode is perfect for saving those long articles we find online for easy reference later. Menu Screen Capture - Capture a single menu or cascading (multiple-layer) menus from Windows applications. This mode is particularly valuable for those who work in technical support or documentation. Video Screen Capture - Capture a short video of our own desktop activity.

With SnagIt in this mode, we can make quick tutorial videos to share with others. Text Screen Capture - Capture text from our screen - especially text that we can not easily copy and paste. Using this mode, we can also capture file lists from Windows Explorer, and the lists become editable. This is a convenient technique for creating lists of tracks from CDs that we have stored digitally, for example. Web Page Screen Capture - Enter a URL and automatically capture all of the images, video and audio files from a Web site. In this screen capture mode, we can also choose the file types (.doc, .ppt, .xls, etc.) we want to download from the site.

SnagIt offers other, more advanced, screen capture types as well. Profiles - Choosing the screen capture options for complex tasks can be time-consuming. But, if we use a certain combination of screen capture settings often, we can save them in a custom profile. There are a few default profiles installed with SnagIt to get us started, and it is easy to create new ones. We can even assign a keyboard (hotkey) combination to each of our screen capture profiles, keeping our most common captures right at our fingertips. Pre-Capture Effects - If we know before we take our screen captures that we want them to have a particular border or a certain resolution; we can select these options from SnagIt Effects menu before we take the screen capture. Then, after capture, the effects will be automatically applied. This is a great way to quickly get a consistent look across repeated screen captures.

Options - SnagIt offers a few additional screen capture options to make the capture process easier and to help us explain things more clearly. These options allow us to: Include the cursor in our screen capture to show a viewer where to click; Set up a time-delayed screen capture; Keep the links on a Web page screen capture intact; Select multiple areas to capture; Turn the Preview Window on or off. Edit and Add Effects - SnagIt powerful Editor lets us crop, resize, adjust color, add text and apply custom effects to our screen capture without ever opening another editing application.

Enhance our Screen Capture - Use SnagIt Editor Paint Tools to enhance our screen capture with: Arrows, Lines, Shapes, Callouts, Cursors, Stamps, Text etc.

Add Professional Effects - SnagIt lets us customize our screen captures with professional effects, including: Edge effects, like drop shadow, torn edge, wave edge, saw edge, sharktooth edge, and beveled edge; Image processing effects, like sharpen, blur, and emboss; Magnify, spotlight, and dim; Perspective and shear; Borders; Watermarks and so on.

Change Screen Capture Color Properties Quickly - If the color or size of our original screen capture is not quite right, we can make adjustments easily in SnagIt Editor. With features like crop, trim, resize, color substitution and correction, halftone and grayscale, changing the color and size properties of our screen capture is painless. Move our cursor over the objects in the cell to see their name.

Add Interactivity - Adding interactivity to our screen captures makes them more engaging and informative. Add a clickable link on our screen capture that takes our viewer to a specific Web page. Or, create a Flash hotspot that displays text or a graphic when hovered over. This is the perfect way to include more information without cluttering up the capture.

Easily Edit or Convert a Group of Images - With SnagIt helpful batch conversion wizard, we can convert all of the screen captures in a project to the same file type, give them same look, or make them all the same size, in an instant.

Share Easily - SnagIt makes it easy to share our screen capture in print, by e-mail or IM, or on the Web. This section describes just a few of the many ways we can share our screen captures using SnagIt.

Email our screen capture - It takes fewer words to communicate an idea when we use SnagIt to embed a screen capture directly in an e-mail message.

Send it by Instant Messenger - SnagIt IM option lets us instantly send any screen capture over Microsoft Windows Messenger, so our colleagues can see and discuss images in real time.

Send it to our favorite application - Use SnagIt output accessories to send our edited screen capture directly from the Preview Window to many of the applications we use every day.

Print our screen capture - With SnagIt easily adjustable print options, our printed screen captures will look exactly the way we want them to ¨C the right way, every time.

Copy and Paste it - SnagIt lets us copy our screen capture directly to the Windows clipboard, which means we can instantly paste the screen capture into almost any application.

Upload our screen capture - Post our screen captures to a Web site by FTP directly from SnagIt.

SnagIt 9.1.3 is a Screen Capture product from techsmith.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, SnagIt allows you to capture, manage, manipulate, and print images, text and video. You can capture the entire screen, a window, or any specified selection, and the save it in 23 file formats, print it or send it by email.
SnagIt is capable of capturing menus, the entire contents of scrolling windows (e.g web pages), DirectX sources such as games and DOS screens, and desktop animations sequences.

SnagIt also includes tools for image editing, as well as adjustments of brightness, contrast, hue, sharpness, scale, color reduction and more. Additional features include a thumbnail browser, audio-recording option, MS Office integration and more.
Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later. The more you use SnagIt, the more ways you'll find to use it! For a complete feature list, download the PDF.

TechSmith is giving away fully licensed copies of SnagIt screen capture program for free - no strings attached. To see what SnagIt can do, read these SnagIt Tips and Tricks.
Other than regular screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and more. Read detailed SnagIt review. The license of this graphic software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of SnagIt, you can buy this graphic software.