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Anyone who needs lightweight screen-capturing and editing software will love Skitch for Mac. Although it lacks some of the tools -- such as mask and layer -- that you find in a high-end image editor such as Photoshop, its well-designed, intuitive interface guides you all the way through the quick and effective editing actions, and the result speaks for itself.
The app launches in a gray window with a white canvas in the center, while the outer borders contain all the available options, allowing you to perform a long list of actions. But since Skitch is centered around screenshots, you will first use the Snap button in the upper-right corner, which places crosshairs on the screen, allowing you to select the specific area you'd like to capture. We liked how the app uses information boxes to teach you about the available options; for example, it taught us that by pressing Shift during dragging, a 3-second countdown is activated. Also, the app displays the snapshot's width and height while dragging, which makes a great addition to the software, and useful information. In addition, you can use the Mac's iSight camera to snap a picture of yourself and save both the screenshot and the picture in a wide variety of popular formats for further editing, including the editable Skitch format.
The fun begins as soon as the snapshot is ready. You can choose from a variety of tools, and you can customize them at will. Skitch makes editing fun; you can add an arrow or various other shapes to the photo with one click, so you can point out something on a photo, but this is just the beginning.
Skitch for Mac goes beyond a basic screenshot tool by becoming a lightweight image-editing tool as well. Considering its sharing options, the app is a must-have for anyone who works with screenshots and needs basic image-editing tools all in one place.
Publisher's Description
From plasq:
Skitch Inc was formed as a company in 2010 by four partners spread across Australia and Norway. With help from contributors based in Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Australia and the US, Skitch has become our beloved 'Swiss Army knife' of visual communication. We built Skitch and skitch.com to solve our own needs of sharing a visual idea, fast -- and if you have the same need, then we're sure you will fall in love with Skitch too.
What's new in this version: Improvements that includes many of your favorite sharing and customization capabilities.
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"Little handy app"
Version: Skitch 2.0.2
Pros
I am absolutely satisfied with it.
Cons
Can't find any
Summary
The app is not overloaded with useless options. It just does its job. Very good for a free app.
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"HUGE step backwards for all existing users"
Version: Skitch 2.0.1
Pros
The 'old' Version 1.x used to be an awesome Screenshot tool that I and many of my friends used. 2.x is NOT!
Cons
NOTHING is as it used to be. I did love and use Skitch every day, but today I can't even figure out how to downsize an image I have in Skitch, pretty much every step I was used to has changed (or the feature was removed).
Summary
Yes, Evernote got me to use my inactive Evernote account again, but it doesn't turn me into a happy customer with this Upgrade, that is in fact a downgrade. And thus I will now in fact UPgrade to the 1.0
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"DO NOT UPGRADE to Skitch 2.x of you are a user of 1.x."
Version: Skitch 2.0.1
Pros
This used to be an awesome product. Get version 1.x if you can.
Cons
Version 2.0 syncs your system intimately with Evernote. There is no avoiding it. Every few minutes, Skitch reports on communication status with Evernote's servers. I do NOT want all my clipboard items uploaded to someone else's web servers.
Summary
Skitch was indispensable. Now Skitch is bloated and uploads your activity to the publishers own servers. Check this through the Mac App Store to see HUNDREDS of other negative reports.
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"Fully satisfied by your product."
Version: Skitch 1.0.4
Pros
Very easy to use.
Cons
No problem so far.
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"This is seriously my favorite app"
Version: Skitch 1.0.3 (v4163)
Pros
As a web developer I love using this to capture bugs on the site and pass pics of them around as URLs, and you can comment, and mark up the images, etc.
Cons
I liked the fact that you used to be able to send just the image and not the whole Skitch page. But, I suppose it's only fair to make people use their interface, since they are providing us with such a great service.
Summary
I know that there are other ways to accomplish the same things, but, Skitch is so easy and such a great interface, that I love it. I think it's a great tool for capturing funny stuff on the internet, especially if it's hard to reproduce, like an ad, or a bug. Anyway, I feel this is a great resource for anyone who does web development, and also great for archiving just stuff that you like from different eras.
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"Easy to use and doesn't hog resources"
Version: Skitch 1.0.1 (v3984)
Pros
It's a very easy to way to grab selective screen shots for educational presentations.
Cons
There really isn't anything I didn't like about it although I'm sure that some power users will find it slow and the interface a bit limiting.
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"The best"
Version: Skitch 1.0b8.5
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
It's simply the best snapshot tool for the mac, and the integrated free web hosting gives it the extra points for ease of sharing. -
"Skitch Rulez!"
Version: Skitch 1.0b8.3
Pros
I love Skitch, it's so cool how you can share and I had no idea having a camera to take pics of what you see on the internet would be!
Cons
I wish they had a version for your phone!
Summary
This is one of my top 3 Apps for Mac.
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"Five Stars!"
Version: Skitch 1.0b6.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
What a fantastic tool this is! If your not a techy person, download Skitch because this application is made for people like us. It's fun, fast and so very useful for heaps of different situations such as quickly inserting pictures into your email or just grabbing a picture that takes your fancy when browsing the internet to store for use later on. Every Mac user should have this handy little app sitting in their dock. It's an absolute delight! -
"Love It!"
Version: Skitch 1.0b6.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I, too, was a beta tester as well as being a bit of a techno wienie. Skitch is so easy to use and wonderful to look at. I think I might be smiling every time I open it up!
