1. www.techsmith.com

2.  You have an image and you want to edit it to
make it look more professional or more fun or
whatever. You want to do one or more of the
following:
 Crop it or cut out or blur pieces to keep it
private.
 Resize it precisely for a website or other job.
 Add text or arrows etc. Or any number or
„stamps‟.
 Add a border. Or two.
 Play with the perspective or add a reflection.
 Combine it with another screen shot or make a
collage with a number of screen shots

3.  Snagit by TechSmith – the Rolls Royce of screen
captures
 Snagit does everything from taking screen
captures, to screen recordings, and lets you share
everything in a myriad ways. It is hyper-flexible!
 Cost: $49.95 (shoppers like the # 9)

4.  Jing (TechSmith‟s free app) … similar to Snagit, fewer
features
 CaptureMe (free) … floating window always up front
 InstantShot (free) … multiple & pre-configured
screenshots
 Backdrop (free) … provides custom backdrop for
screenshots
 Paparazzi (freeware) … screenshots of webpages
 Constrictor ($10) … resizable, moveable snapshot
utility
 iShowU ($20) … record audio & video instantly
 Layers ($25) … all items on screen as psd layered
image
 Other Similar Programs
Onde ($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 intuitive
to set up and use.
 If you take a few screen captures to upload to
Facebook or email to your kids Skitch or Jing are
the ones for you.
 Snagit is a big, beautiful, full-featured program with
a ton of functionality.
 If you want to use graphics for the web or printed
materials (books, manuals, leaflets, flyers etc.)
then Snagit may be the program for you.

7.  You have to open Snagit to use it but when you open
it nothing much happens except for this funny thing
that pops out at the side and tends gets in your way.
If it isn‟t there the screen capture doesn‟t work.
 You can use Snagit as a quick and easy screen
capture and I did – for quite a while – which was
stupid – and a shame.
 I selected Cmd+Opt+P for Print Screen.
 File Menu > Preferences > Keyboard.

8.  This is a little „tray‟ that you
can set to „lurk‟ (show) or hide.
 Window Menu (show or hide)
 Preferences > General >
Show Snagit Capture
Window (at top)
 Capture a picture or video (w/shortcut)
 Show or hide the cursor
 Capture to clipboard or not
 Open Editor | Help | Additional Options

20.  Show and Tell

24.  Save to clipboard (as a preference) or temporarily
(using Capture window)
 Default sharing options to email, ftp
program, Screencast.com, Camtasia Studio and
YouTube.
 Social network sharing available, including
Facebook, 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

25.  Techsmith‟s 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

26.  The Help Manual is a mixed bag
 Haven‟t had to use it much
 The pages with graphics are a bit more helpful
than those without
 They often assume prior knowledge
 The help about the Capture Window for example is
wrong in places (maybe it hasn‟t been updated
from a previous version).
 The TechSmith Video Tutorials are great.

27.  Jing
 Snagit
 Screencast.com … TS‟s private video/image hosting site
 Camtasia … video recording/editing software
 Camtasia Relay … record
meetings, lectures, presentations
 Morae … research tool for tech pax/businesses/schools
etc.
 Coach‟s Eye … iOS5 app to capture, analyze, share
videos
 The Forge … web „shows‟
 Flipped Classroom … TS‟s products used extensively.
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28.  TechSmith Video Tutorials
 YouTube
 http://youtu.be/zQ_933X9vQU General Intro
 http://youtu.be/dViND8KsZDE The Editor
 http://youtu.be/aTbT0K1ofkM New features in
Snagit 11
 Snagit Guide … tips, tricks and secrets
 Some tutorials show Windows version of Snagit
 Many tutorials show Snagit 10 (the older version)

29.  TechSmith was founded in 1987 by
William Hamilton, who remains the
company‟s president today.
 He was asked in a recent interview
where he thought his field/industry
was headed :
 “I wish I knew the answer to that.
Wherever it's going, it's going to
get there fast. That‟s been the
common denominator: things are
going to change dramatically and
it‟s going to happen quite rapidly.
It‟s that energy and buzz that
makes this a great industry to be
in."