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Before I learned about SnagIt, I used Paint Shop Pro. The scrolling window capture alone has already saved enough time to pay for SnagIt. With PSP, I would take two captures and paste them together if I wanted a single image for an entire scrolling screen. Even at my best, that would take a few minutes, but with SnagIt, I can get the entire image in an instant. I've also found that SnagIt resizes images with much more clarity than PSP. It's a beautiful thing.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:37 AM
To: Rick Stone
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: SnagIt and StarDock
> I'm what one might call a "light" SnagIt user. While
> I do find the features interesting and very helpful, I'm
> wondering how you achieve what you listed with a "single
> keystroke". I'm assuming you meant to convey that
> you somehow have managed to configure it to do all that
> with a capture profile or
> something? Is there a tutorial or help topic in
> SnagIt that explains this?
Yes, Rick...I did have to configure these settings first, but you
save it to a keystroke combination and its always available. To do
everything I described, figure about 30 minutes or less. The hard
part is defining the color definitions used to swap the grayed out
items in the menu . While the active menu item is one color (black),
the inactive menu item is two colors (a gray and a white shadow). You
need to swap both of those; the gray to black and the white to the
menu background color, although there is a color picker icon to help
you. It makes it easier to select the color if you first zoom the
image to 200 to 400%.
There is a wizard that takes you through the configuration of a
profile, the "Add New Profile Wizard". I'd be happy to help you along
if you get snagged...get it? Snagged? SnagIt? :-)
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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