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Snap a pic of your screen with Snagit

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Tutorials

Friday January 23, 2009

When you're trying to explain an error message, show your geeky friend a strange quirk that keeps cropping up on your computer, when you're trying to share information from a web page or save it for posterity, it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Snagit from Techsmith is a great way to capture all or a portion of your computer screen. We'll show you how.

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Show Notes

- Download Snagit and install the program on your computer.

- With Snagit running, select the type of screen capture you'd like to do.

Region allows you to select a portion of the screen using a crosshairs.
Window lets you capture the visible part of an open window or web browser.
Full screen lets you capture everything on your monitor as one image.
Scrolling window lets you capture the entire contents of a web page, even the data that's not currently visible on the screen.

- Hit the big red Capture button. Depending on the type of screen capture you're performing, your experience may be different from that shown here. The steps remain largely unchanged though.

- In our region capture example, select the portion of the screen you'd like to capture by clicking and dragging the red selection box.

- Release the mouse button to complete the capture. Your image will open in the Snagit image editor.

- Save your image in the file type and with the name that you want to use.