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While we normally appreciate user guidance, the pop-up how-to guides got in the way of what proved to be an effective tool for capturing and manipulating images.
Ashampoo Magical Snap adds an expandable toolbar to the top of your window that lets you capture entire Web pages or specific selections. It also captures desktop and window screenshots--basically anything that appears on your screen. Once you make a selection, pop-up how-to guides walk you through the editing process. We found them a little overwhelming, and appreciated the option to turn them off. Once you capture an image, the toolbar smartly changes to offer more editing options, and two other expandable toolbars are added to your window for more editing and saving options. We were able to quickly capture whole or partial screens, add basic elements, rotate, and resize the image. Results are saved to your location of choice.
Much like the how-to guides, the Help file is extensive and overwhelming. But once you get the hang of the program enough to not need the guides, it is much easier to navigate. Ashampoo Magical Snap offers a short 10-day trial period, but if you request a promotional code, it gets bumped up to 40 days. Once you get down to using this smart screen capture tool, you'll like what you see. We recommend it to any user with a need to create, customize, and save images.
Publisher's Description
From Ashampoo:
With the new Ashampoo Snap 4 you can capture just everything on your screen. Ashampoo Snap 4 enables you to create high-quality screenshots, videos, and demos of your screen content. Edit, save, and share your excellent results with others. With Ashampoo Snap 4 you can make effective, informative, and individually created screenshots of the Windows desktop, single windows, selected areas, or complete Web sites. In school and the professionals use a spontaneous idea or important information is quickly send. Just as quickly an interesting image is mailed to friends and acquaintances.
Use the video mode to create videos and demos tailored to your needs. Capture film sequences or computer games (in a window) and save them as high-quality video files. You can also produce demos like video tutorials for software or presentations of Web sites. Videos and demos can be saved in different formats using various codecs. Fantastic features, like cursor and zoom effects, are available during video capture.
What's new in this version:
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All versions:
4.4 starsout of 218 votes
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Current version:
4.7 starsout of 31 votes
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"Easy to use, excellent results."
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
very quick to start up.
good quality on video and stills.Cons
nothing so far.
Summary
A lot for your money.
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"Powerful tool for all kinds of users"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Very simple in use, powerful capturing for web-pages that does not fit the screen, professional after-capture graphical editor with many nice tool (like a balloon comment) and many more, does not lag the OS
Cons
none of them. Best tool.
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"THIS IS A GREAR PRODUCT!!!"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
IT DOES EXAACTLY WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH THAT i BOUFHT IT!!!
Cons
I CAN'T THINK OF ANY.
Summary
THIS PROGRAM IS WORTH TAKING A TRIAL RUN BECAUSE I THS MAKES THINGS SO EASY TO CAPTURE AND SAVE.
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"Excellent for screen captures"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Captures about anything so far
Cons
I don't care for the tabs sticking out on the side of my window
Summary
I had the original Snap program and just got Snap 4. They have certainly upgraded from the first version.
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"Makes screen capture simple"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Good and easy to use
Cons
Activates when trying to open tabs
Summary
I like
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"Worthwhile ap, from the Haus of Spams-a-lot"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Works. (Even on flash videos)
Cons
Documentation a little weird. These guys are all about email marketing.
Summary
I needed to grab some pix from a video on one of those comedy video sites. You know, one of those sites that protect their content with URL obfuscatrion, etc... (RTMP, really? For a giggle-video site...?) Anyway, if you know what I meant by allofthat, you also know that flassh videos tend to hide from Windows' on-board screen capture fuctionality (doncha' just love flash?). Sometime ago I saw a thing on the CNET cheapscate blog that the ashampoo folks were offering some kind of super-cheap promotion on their products and, as I needed a screen cap ap, I paid about $5.00 for Snap3. I didn't have ocasion to use it till now. After some fiddling around with the skin which was fightng some kind of stupid war with my video driver, I got my pix [ F-U atomfilms!].
I found the UI a little off-putting (I'm an old XP fuddie-duddy and not used to all of these new-fangled screen-overlay thingies) I --might-- have had an easier time if I had actually read all of those help screens... Oh well. BTW, Ashampoo is a German outfit so the documentation can be a little strange, in a strange Yoda-esque way the sentances are sometimes written...
These guys are really into email marketing. Get ready for a lot of messages from Ranier and Das Boys. You can opt out I guess but then you'd miss out on potentially cool stuff, like the $5 upgrade to Snap4 I just took advantage of... You can probably do better than the list price on the site if you wait for one of their frequent sales -
"Makes screen etc etc capture a breeze!"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Fast, efficient, easy to use!
Cons
I do not have any problems with this software.
Summary
Excellent - user-friendly
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"Bought 2nd license to use on laptop."
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Used on desktop few months, then bought 2nd license. Fairly easy to get started. Can capture all or part of screen & save in format of my choice - most useful. Choice of screen capture modes.
Cons
Have problem activating program by accident when mousing near top of screen, which I frequently do a lot.
Summary
Usefulness more important than problems. Best program of its kind I have found and very reasonable price.
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"works well"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
Very handy..
Cons
None for now
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"Excellent and easy to use"
Version: Ashampoo Snap 4.3
Pros
WYSIWYG. Very useful
Cons
None to date
Summary
I don't buy many software programs but had to buy this as the previous versions were so good
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