► TITLE & VERSION: SnagIt 7.2.2

► LICENSE: shareware

► HOMEPAGE: http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

► Software Publisher's DESCRIPTION: SnagIt screen capture provides a convenient and efficient tool to sidestep the time-consuming limitations of the copy, paste and print screen commands. Use SnagIt to collect, edit and share content from the computer and Internet. Activate your captures through a toolbar built into Microsoft Office, and customize images with SnagIt’s powerful, yet intuitive graphics editor. Save time, enhance your communications and illustrate your ideas with this award-winning, easy-to-use software solution. With more than seven million users and four PC Magazine awards, SnagIt is the everyday computer tool for beginners, experts and everyone in between. SnagIt SolvesIt, every day.

► RATING & REVIEW (Download.com): ***** Capturing screenshots may not be glamorous, but SnagIt can turn this chore into a quick walk in the park. SnagIt lets you capture any part of your screen, from a partial image to the entire contents of a scrolling window. In fact, you can snag anything you see on Web sites and software applications, grab images from scanners or digital cameras, or capture video and record screen action in AVI format.

The Editor and Studio tools appeal to creative types. Editing tools let you manipulate and enhance captures using effects (such as Brightness, Hue, and Saturation), filters, and borders. You can add arrows, substitute colors in the captured image, or create dark or light backgrounds with a single click.

This program outdoes itself in features, so it may take a while to figure out the menu structure. However, even with its package of powerful options, we found SnagIt to be a flexible and easy-to-use program. Balloon tips and an online video tutorial make it work for beginners, and sophisticated capabilities--such as the ability to export images to graphic applications, to send text and images to a word-processing document or spreadsheet, and to make direct e-mail captures--will satisfy advanced users.

► NK's RATING & NOTES: Almost in every software category there are free apps which do their jobs as well and sometimes even better than their commercial analogues. I have tried several screenshots capturing freeware but none of those apps could do at least a half of what SnagIt is able to do. Besides wonderful performance in regard to its main task of screenshots capturing SnagIt offers lots of additional tools. Thus I often use its graphics editor to edit even those of my pictures which actually are not screenshots just because it's very simple to use this editor. I would highly recommend SnagIt to all those who often need to make screenshots and want them to look professional. I think it's needless to say that almost all the screenshots I use to illustrate my software reviews at TC forums are made with SnagIt... (Though the screenshot above has been made with another tool as I didn't manage to force SnagIt to make a self-portrait... )

NK

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