CNET Editors' review
When it comes to premium software for capturing what's on your computer screen, SnagIt 10 is one of the best in its category. As with other apps, you can choose exactly how much of the screen you'll shoot. Snagit's edge is that it now combines the most oft-selected capture profiles into one, so that reaching for the Print Screen keyboard shortcut gives you a mega-tool for capturing either the whole screen, a window, a region, or a scrolling area, with just some considered cursor placement and a single click. We have to admit that the new default capture profile may confuse at first, but those who find it too much of a visual riot can always swap in a different default.
In addition to snagging images, Snagit has separate capture settings for copying Web sites, text, and even video; you can record your screen's action in the AVI format. This version of Snagit improves on the text capture tool, retaining the style formatting in Snagit's editor and adding some editing tools so you can further manipulate the text.
As with the previous version, which overhauled Snagit's user-friendly editor, Snagit 10's image editor stores screenshots in an icon library that's accessible from the main pane, making it a breeze to revisit past shots, even if you've never saved them to your drive.
The search bar is also a lifesaver for finding the automatically-indexed screenshots of yore. Though Snagit's editing tools aren't as professional as some other high-end editors, it does provide a satisfying array of tools to annotate, resize, recolor, and otherwise manipulate images with hyperlinked hot spots, tags, and visual effects, like the newly introduced page-curl effect. We think a few of the stamps, art, and tools could be more versatile, but we were able to do most of what we set out to accomplish on a daily basis with speed, ease, and consistent results.
Watch the CNET video review of Snagit:
Publisher's Description
From TechSmith:
Snagit - The ultimate screen capture tool. Snagit gives you all the tools you need to create engaging images and videos. Snag any image and enhance it with effects or create a quick video of your computer screen with no time restrictions. Then share your creations instantly with anyone. With Snagit's quick and easy screen capture process, you can snag anything - your entire desktop, a region, a window, or long webpages - all with a single click. Capture any image you want straight off your computer screen, and enhance with callouts, blur, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-catching visual. Snagit lets you instantly show off your creations to anyone. With the Screencast.com output you can upload, manage, view and share all of your images and videos. Snagit also gives you the freedom to share to YouTube, your website, blog, or anywhere you like. With Snagit, it doesn't take much to explain a concept or an idea - your visuals do all the talking. And the more you use it, the more reasons you'll find to use it and love it!
What's new in this version: Video Capture: Using .mp4 video format you can now create screen videos for demos or quick reviews, and share them instantly to YouTube, Facebook, and more! New Stamps: Add some flair to your screen captures with new and improved stamps! Centered Canvas: When your capture pops up in the Snagit editor the canvas now automatically creates a border around your image, giving you plenty of room to add annotations, arrows, and other effects. Easier Resizing: Whether you resize by pixels, inches, c... See all new features
More Popular Photo Editors downloads
- PhotoScape
117,831 downloads
- IrfanView
97,967 downloads
- FastStone Image Viewer
29,698 downloads
- Adobe Photoshop Extended
21,741 downloads
- Photo Pos Pro
15,036 downloads
-
All versions:
4.1 starsout of 273 votes
-
Current version:
3.5 starsout of 6 votes
-
My rating:
Write review
Results 1-6 of 6
-
"ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE"
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Cons
COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO ONE SINGLE THING WITH IT. COULDN'T CAPTURE A SCREEN SHOT, COULDN'T CAPTURE A WINDOW, COULDN'T CAPTURE A VIDEO, COULDN'T FIND THE SHOTS I TRIED TO TAKE, COULDN'T FIND OUT HOW TO CHANGE DEFAULT SAVE FILE LOCATIONS. WAY TO COMPLICATED FOR THE AVERAGE USER. WAY TO MUCH BS FOR THE AVERAGE USER. THE ABSOLUTE WORST PROGRAM I EVER TRIED TO USE. JUST USE SNIPPING TOOL WITHIN WINDOWS FOR A SIMPLE SCREENSHOT OR WINDOW CAPTURE.
Summary
ABSOLUTE GARBAGE OVERLOADED WITH BS.
-
"Easy tool to do screen captures"
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
Very easy to use.
Cons
Somewhat pricey.
-
"Wonderful tool...capture anything!"
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
Multiple capture modes
Ease of use
Image editor saves past captures so you can easily refer back to them
Image editor has many useful tools to be able to quickly point out areas of interestCons
none that I've found
Summary
I love the different types of captures that can be used. 95% of the time, I use the all-in-one which can quickly capture the entire screen, a select window or a hand drawn selection. You can also capture text, menus with time delay and quickly capture a scrolling view of an entire webpage (even with links). The fact that the editor saves past images has proven valuable on multiple occasions. I use this tool everyday for emails and professional documentation. I could not live without it!
-
"Snagit it is full of snags."
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
Basic features work.
Cons
I was dumb enough to believe that the upgrade would solve the scrolling window capture problems.
-
"cant live without tool"
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
price
frequency of updatesCons
feature overload?
-
"One of the most used programs I have ever owned"
Version: Snagit 11.0
Pros
Everything I could ask for in an imaging capture program
Cons
So far have had nothing negative to say about it period
Summary
I literally use this program every day and several times a day at that. You can capture anything, even things that you can only see in a popup bubble when you hover over it. In text capture mode you can capture text in situations where you cannot copy text. Once you capture that text you can edit words and add to words and these words become searchable. If you need to capture everything on the page but you have to scroll down to see it all, it has a scrolling capture mode as well. This baby lets you do things that you never even thought about doing, it's a life saver in many cases, at least it has been for me. I couldn't live without it!
Results 1-6 of 6
Add Your Review
Submit your reply
E-mail this review
Report offensive content
See more CNET content tagged:
Previous Versions:
