Apps For Mac

Snagit for Mac Key Features

• All-in-one Capture – Snagit for Mac’s capture interface is slick and smart. Grab a screenshot of a window, region, the entire desktop or even a scrolling window all with a single hotkey.
• Delay capture – Set up a delay to capture the screen as-is. Handy for capturing menus, contextual menus, splash screens and other fleeting moments.
• Attractive call-outs and markup – Snagit’s wide range of customizable arrows, speech bubbles, shape and highlights bring clarity to your screenshots with a professional look and feel.
• Effects – Borders, shadows, perspectives and custom edges give an extra touch of class to your captures. Blur lets you censor appropriate data as well.
• Sharing – Go from Snagit Editor to iWork, Microsoft Office and other applications with a simple drag-and-drop. Also has built-in FTP, email, and publishing interfaces.
• Organization – Stress-free capture tray lets you keep track of recent captures and Auto-Storing gives you peace of mind that all your work is saved and secure.

Sounds pretty standard, I know, but the true joy of working with Snagit is the signature TechSmith ease and intuitiveness that this company infuses in each of its products. Let me show you.

Capturing with Snagit for Mac

There are two ways to activate the All-in-One Capture with Snagit for Mac. You can either click the red Capture button that hides unobtrusively in the Snagit drawer on your desktop or uses the global hotkey. For convenience sake, I set my global hotkey to Shift-Command-1, thereby overriding OS X’s built-in screen capture hotkey.

You can also activate the capture tool by clicking the icon in the status bar at the top of the screen. Either way, when you go into capture mode, all traces of Snagit for Mac skedaddle, leaving you with a clear shot of your desktop.

With the All-in-One Capture tool, whatever ends up in the orange box gets captured. For a window capture, simply mouse over the window that you’d like to capture and the tool automatically sticks to the edges. You can also have the window capture focus on a certain pane of a window, or even an element on a web page. Click once to capture the window or pane.

Capture more than what is on your screen

For a custom region capture, click and drag to draw a box. When you start slowing down, Snagit magnifies where the crosshairs intersect, which lets you get your screenshot tight, right down to the pixel. It also keeps track of dimensions for you.

Scrolling capture is a truly revolutionary feature. This lets you grab the entire contents of a web page or window, even if it can’t fit on the screen all at once. To activate scrolling capture, start your window at the top/left-hand corner of the page and click one of the arrows.

This is a very groovy feature. Check out the result by clicking the thumbnail next to the above screenshot. (Note: Unfortunately, scrolling capture doesn’t currently work on some applications. Namely, Google Chrome.)

Delay capture can be activated by clicking the Settings icon (looks like a gear). Here, you can check Delay capture and choose the length of your delay. Now, when you hit the Capture button or the global hotkey, it’ll capture freeze the screen after your pre-set delay. You’ll see a countdown in the bottom-right of the screen. Once the countdown expires, you can capture a region, window or the full screen.

While we’re here, you’ll also notice that you can choose to include the pointer in the screenshot and/or send the screenshot to the clipboard right away, where you can paste it into whichever application you choose. If you capture the mouse pointer, it gets incorporated into the screenshot as a separate element, allowing you to move it, resize it or remove it as you see fit.

Snagit Editor for Mac 2022.4.4 

I love Snagit Editor. I love it so much that I use it to edit screenshots and images that I didn’t even capture with Snagit.

For those of you who are coming from the Windows version of Snagit, you’ll immediately notice that everything is rearranged. But don’t worry—almost all of it’s still there. Let me show you around. (And yes, I am now using Snagit to capture screenshots of Snagit Editor wherein I have screenshots of Snagit open. I’ll give you a moment to regain your grip on reality.)

Your screenshots get put into the Snagit Editor tray right when you capture them (if you have Edit after capturing selected) and you can quickly switch between the ones you want to edit. You can also drag and drop images into the tray if you want to edit something that wasn’t captured with Snagit.  The tray keeps a set amount of recent captures, but you can remove ones you don’t need by clicking the X in the top-left of the thumbnail.

Snagit for Mac Download

The Snagit Editor tray is one of those quiet triumphs that I really appreciate. It makes the workflow very simple—I usually go through and take all the screenshots I want for a given blog post at once. Then, I go back and remove the ones I don’t need and before marking up the ones I do need in sequential order. As you can see, Snagit Editor marks the screenshots with unsaved changes with an Asterisk, which is a handy reminder.

The real stars of the show that you’ll see in the final product are the various call-outs and effects. To start, you can crop, resize and merge screenshots using layers and transparencies. You can also add text boxes and speech bubbles, arrows, stamps (things like stars, check marks and other icons that come pre-loaded), free-hand drawings with the pen tool, highlights, lines and shapes (rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses).

Snagit for Mac Samples

If you are a frequent groovyPost.com reader, then you’ve already seen what can be done with these tools.  If not, then why haven’t you subscribed yet?

Let me show you how with a screenshot that incorporates many of the Snagit Editor for Mac features:

Here, you’re seeing three kinds of text boxes, a rounded rectangle around the Join Us button, highlighting (around “Enter your e-mail”), freehand beneath the blurred text and a bendy arrow with a dotted line. The whole thing has Edges, Border, Shadow, Perspective, Reflection applied to it as well. Groovy, huh?

Sharing and Exporting Snagit Screen Captures

By default, Snagit for Mac uses .snagproj, TechSmith’s proprietary format, which retains all the elements and layers so you can go back and edit them. But for sharing, publishing and incorporating into blog posts, you’ll obviously want to get your screenshots out of Snagit for Mac. You can do so by saving them as a PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF or BMP, which is the most portable method of exporting your screen capture.

But the fastest way to go from annotated screenshot to blog post is to copy and paste the entire screenshot. There is a Copy All button hiding along the bottom of the screen which you can reveal by clicking the arrow. You can make this button more prominent by going into Snagit > Preferences > Outputs and swapping the Copy All button for one of the defaults.

Anyway, this will put the image onto your clipboard, where you can then paste it into any application which supports multimedia items from the clipboard. iWork and Microsoft Office products work well with this, but web-based apps won’t (such as Google Docs). Here, you can see I’m posting a screenshot right into TextEdit.

You can also upload your images directly via FTP, or to your Screencast.com account, or automatically attach them to a Mail or Microsoft Entourage email. Personally, I’ve never found a need for this.

Conclusion

Snagit for Mac will let you take professional screenshots from manuals, tutorials or presentations. The powerful screen capturing and image manipulation software records stills and videos. Other than traditional full screen, the capturing area can be set to window, region or scrolling area. A large range of tools allows creative image editing, such as re-sizing, cutting, annotating, coloring, framing and image combining as well as numerous effects like perspective, shadows and page-curl.

Snagit for Mac also supports instant images and video sharing on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or over Email and FTP. Overall, if you need a highly polished screen capture application for the Mac platform, then look no further than Snagit for Mac.