Click “Copy all” in the Snagit Editor to copy a capture to the clipboard
Click “Share Link” to upload a capture to Screencast.com and copy a link to it to the clipboard
Click the arrow to the right of “Share Link” to send the capture to other apps and services or save them as files
On Windows, new share extensions can be downloaded from the Techsmith website. On macOS, all share extensions are already installed.
By default, copied/exported captures will be “flattened” (uneditable). To allow another Snagit user to continue editing them, save as a SNAGX file and share it.
After customizing a tool (e.g. changing the color and width of an arrow), click the ➕ icon on the temporary representation of the customized tool in the “Quick Styles” area of the right sidebar to save it as a quick style for future reuse.
Create a theme to configure custom colors and fonts, e.g. from a brand style guide.
Colors can be picked from the screen using the eyedropper.
Themes can be exported and shared with colleagues.
Click the star icon at the top right of tools to add them as favorites.
The toolbar can be customized to show the most used markup tools and other features, such as “New from clipboard”.
Applied Workflows for Organizational Use and Communication
Use Fill to fill an area of a single color with another color. That “color” could also be “transparent” to e.g. remove a white background.
When exporting a video, or a portion of one, to an animated GIF, there is an option to “fade to black”. This is useful to signal that the “video” loops (repeats), which is the default when viewing animate GIFs.
To add technical information while taking screenshots, e.g. when reporting error messages to technical support, apply the effect “Capture Info” on the Image tab of the Capture Window. The technical information to add to the screenshot can be customized using the gear icon.
To add technical information after taking a screenshot, in the Snagit Editor, go to the Effects tab and choose “Capture Info”.
Use Crop to remove unnecessary areas near the borders of an image.
Use the Dimensions button at the bottom of an image to resize it.
Use “Cut out” to remove unnecessary areas inside an image and replace them with an edge effect to clearly inform the audience that something has been removed.
Use Step to add number or alphabetical markers in ascending order.
Use Border from the Effects tab to add a border around an image.
A “Simplified User Interface” (SUI) graphic that reduces elements of a software interface to simpler shapes is often used in web applications while the actual content is still loading (think of bars instead of text and grey people icons instead of avatars). In technical documentation, it can be used to prevent the documentation from getting out of date quickly, e.g. if labels are retranslated, and attract the audiences focus to what matters most.
The Simplify tool automatically generates a color palette that contains the colors used in the image.
This tool has quick styles for common UI elements, such as text paragraphs, avatars, and rectangular blocks.
After using the Auto Simplify feature, one can check “Show Original” to make the automatically added objects semi-transparent, in order to decide which of them might need modification or removal.
Click “Create (➕) Image from Template” if you have not yet captured one or more images, but already know how many you need for a given template, and want to create a new document and capture the images for it as you go.
If you already have captured one or more images and want to create a document based on a template with them, select them at the bottom of the Editor (e.g. by holding Ctrl or ⌘ while clicking them one by one), then right-click and select “Combine in Template”.
The available templates can optionally be filtered so they fit the number of selected images.
Screencast.com is a service for sharing images and videos from Snagit and Camtasia, and discuss them with others.
With the “Standard” tier, users can share up to 25 videos (at the same time) and unlimited images. The Pro tier supports sharing an unlimited number of videos.
Comments can add highlights (arrows, shapes etc.) to videos and are linked to timestamps.
Users who are adding comments do not require a Techsmith account.
By default, owners receive a notification when their content receives comments. This can be toggled off per image/video.
Registered users viewing others content can also opt in to receive notifications about new comments.
Click “Create (➕) Video from Images” if all required images are in the list at the bottom of the Editor.
Alternatively, hold Ctrl or ⌘ and click all of the required images in the list at the bottom of the Editor, then right-click and select “Create Video from Images”.
Before starting the recording, optionally drag them into the order they should be presented in.
Optionally select the desired background color, especially if the images do not have the same dimensions.
Just like when recording the screen, the camera can be turned on or off, and its placement and size can be modified by dragging and resizing the camera preview.
When presenting, the arrow keys of the keyboard can be used to navigate between images, just like when presenting using Microsoft PowerPoint.
To add to an existing video, select the video that should go first from the “Recent Captures” (the tray at the bottom of the Editor), then click “Add videos”, and select the video(s) to add to the end of the first, in the desired order.
Alternatively, hold down Ctrl or ⌘ while selecting videos in the “Recent Captures” in the desired order, then right-click and select “Combine videos”.