The text tool does a good job of making the text readable by slapping it down with a nice fat font and an outline and a subtle shadow.

There’s a text tool, but no text box tool, though you can certainly draw your own if you were so inclined. Also, a quick note, I had trouble accessing the color changer on my second monitor–had to drag it to my main screen to get it to display correctly. For each element, you can choose the Size and Color, the former of which is limited to five notches on a slider, rather than a much preferable integer field where you can input specific pixel widths. None of the elements can hold a candle to SnagIt Editor, in my opinion, and your abilities to customize each element are very, very limited. Each of these can be customized by color and size.įor the most part, these can get you by for some quick doodles and call-outs. You’ve got a pen, a line tool, an ellipse tool, a rectangle tool, a fill bucket, a text tool and one style of an arrow. The free editing features with Skitch are limited but sufficient. I imagine it’d be equally as handy for serious Skitch users. Scrolling capture is featured in SnagIt, and I must say, it’s occasionally useful. These are Snag from Safari and Snag from Link, and they are designed for capturing entire webpages, including the scrolling area. There are two other capture profiles in Skitch which I can’t show you since I haven’t invested in the Plus version ( currently $14.95 a year, regularly $19.95 a year). This puts your mug right into the Skitch editor, so you can mark it up and share it. This saves you from the work of doing all the markups again but lets you update the underlying screenshot.įor those who can bear to look at their own faces, you can also snap from your iSight camera. There have been many a time when I’ve gone through the trouble of marking up a screenshot only to realize that there was some element missing from it. Re-Snap lets you take another screenshot while keeping your markup. One clever feature that Skitch has is Re-Snap. Not entirely groundbreaking when compared to the typical cross-hair capture, but if you’re trying to get a collection of screenshots at the exact same dimensions, it may be helpful. Click Snap to capture whatever is framed in the editing window. It turns the Skitch editing window see-through–like a frame–and then lets you move the window around your desktop. The Full-Screen snap is self-explanatory. While grabbing a screenshot, it shows you dimensions as well. If you want a countdown, say, if you’d like to capture a menu, you can hold shift while drawing your capture region. It lets you click and drag around a region to capture it. Each of these can be assigned its own global hotkey. You’ve got your standard crosshairs snap, a full-screen snap, and a frame snap. Let’s dive into each of these Skitch features one at a time.įor the free version, you get three kinds of “ snaps” with Skitch. Skitch is also working on amping up its social capabilities with stats and analytics for your images ( coming soon) and Twitter-friendly shareable links. So, the main thrust of Skitch is that it’s a tool that allows you to capture screenshots from your webcam, your desktop or your web browser, edit and tag your screenshots with markup, text, and callouts and then share them using Skitch’s free image upload and sharing service. Watch it if you want, and then meet me below.īack? Okay, good.

I’d leave this job to this fuzzy pink bear featured in the video below, but in spite of his cutesy wutesy-ness, there’s not a lot of meat in that introductory video. I apologize for this brief stylistic departure.) Meet Skitch: The Camera for the InternetĪllow me to introduce you to Skitch. That’s so I can show you how Skitch works with blogging. ( Also, notice that this will be the rare groovyPost article where the screenshots are not taken with SnagIt.

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