Re: Snag-It 9.0 Again

[Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Hi Roger

SnagIt makes some of the editing tasks super easy. Keep in mind that I'm 
comparing to RoboScreenCapture (RSC), so HyperSnap may well do some of 
the things easily that I've noticed are either outright impossible to 
achieve, or very difficult.

Want to add a callout to your capture? Click the callout icon and add 
it. With RSC, you had better have the text positioned exactly where you 
want it, as it isn't added in another layer. With SnagIt, you add the 
callout and can move it around and adjust the callout pointer. Same goes 
with highlight shapes like arrows or circles or other outlines. 
Highlights seem to be limited to four colors with RSC

This next feature falls more into the category that some will view as 
pure fluff, but that little SnagIt torn edge effect is like crack to me. 
I love it. I think it's great because it allows me to illustrate (quite 
easily) that I'm calling focus to one corner of a much larger dialog. 
More exists, but we are looking here in this area.

With SnagIt, if you rescale the image, I find the results more pleasing 
to the eye than rescaling using RSC. So the algorithm used must be 
different for each app.

Now here is an area where RSC has a definite advantage over SnagIt. 
Touching up images. Using tools like Microsoft Paint offers to touch up, 
remove portions, stuff like that.

Cheers... Rick :)

Roger Bell wrote:
> Regarding Snag-It in general...not this particular version, what is the
> upside of Snag-It over less expensive screen capture and editing
> programs such as HyperSnap? We use the most recent version of HyperSnap
> and it works like a breeze and has had the multiple image feature for
> quite awhile. RoboHelp's included screen capture utility is based on
> HyperSnap, although it may be an older version. I tried an older version
> of Snag-It but didn't see any feature that stood out.
>  
> Thanks,
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