Snagit10 Review

As those who work extensively with screen captures on a consistent basis, you must be familiar with screen recording program. In modern technology times, there are some many these genres recording program in market, which may make people confused to make choice.

Snagit is one of the most professional screen recording programs developed by TechSmith in 1990, its latest version Snagit 10 was released in May, 2011. Snagit 10 is one of the most comprehensive and powerful screen recording programs available for windows, providing superior functions to record, organize, and edit recordings.

Updated features of Snagit 10

According to TechSmith released, the screen record features in Snagit 10 are more or less have something in common with the previous versions, but it also add some new features, which makes you to grab everything on computer screen with efficiency.

• All-in-one capture

The previous version provides different capture profiles modes for custom size, window, full screen and roll web. After the completely improvement of previous version, Snagit 10 offers the new all-in-one capture profile function, which including image capture, text capture, video capture and web capture.

Capture window: by clicking on a window.
Capture region: by clicking and dragging the mouse to select the region you have chosen.
Capture full screen: by clicking the top of the screen.

The all-in-one capture can satisfy your entire requirement to record on computer screen. You can record any portion, windows, and scrolling webpage just by a click, rather than choosing the capture mode beforehand.

• Image transparency

Snagit 10 add the new function to make image transparent, so that users can blend images with different backgrounds, cut out the parts you want from an image to create a new image.

• Upload to Screencast.com

  

The new version makes it easier to send whatever you got to screencast.com, so you can share the link to others with a clickable thumbnail. Overall, the editor’s been revamped to let you do basically all the image editing you need without having to open up the captured images in Photoshop for instance, making it much more efficient to use.

• Improved Auto-scroll

The new improved feature can sense when you’re on a web page that scrolls, and it also will automatically move through the page to capture the page both vertically and horizontally. The new faster auto-scroll capture includes a new notification window to signify when scrolling is in progress.

• Text editing

  

With the new product, you can now easily extract and edit the text from any websites and applications along with all its formatting. You can edit formatting and layout, such as text color, font style, size, and more using Snagit’s editing tools.

Installation

Step 1: go to its official websites www.techsmith.com/snagit.html to download.

Step 2: fill the blank with your email address to get the program for your windows or Mac.

Step 3: it will pop up a message box to ask you choose the store folder and click “Download”.

Step 4: go to the folder to open the executable file, and install it, finally click accept.

Step 5: click “Finish”.

Pros and cons of the Snagit 10

Every program has its advantages and disadvantages; there is no exception with Snagit 10. Some settings really need to improve further. Follows are the pros and cons of the program.

• PROS

• One of the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and intuitive screen capture programs available.
• Saves captures automatically and provides numerous capture modes to allow you combine multiple captures easily.
• Offers many unique, advanced extras in the powerful SnagIt image Editor.
• Support many file types, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, even including PDF.
• Ability to save often-used settings in a library as a profile.
• Supports to capture the rounded corner of a window.

• CONS

• Reduces some image quality when resizing images.
• No built-in option to start Snagit minimized
• No history list of edit changes.

Summary

Snagit 10, with a whole bunch of new features, is a versatile tool for you to capture everything from screen, such as graphics, videos, and even text. The operations are easier than any other picture capture program and there are other formidable functions for users to edit, crop and trim the images. The price of the product is $49.95 USD for a single license.

Written by: Alice Wang on November 4, 2011