Version 8.1 SnagIt Online Help Guide - Headtex Limited

1 Version SnagIt Online help Guide By TechSmith Corp. SnagIt Online help Guide Online help Guide SnagIt Contents Getting Started With SnagIt 1 Welcome to SnagIt !..1 Taking Your First Capture ..3 SnagIt Tutorial Videos ..4 Interface Getting Familiar with the Main Screen Part Getting Familiar with the Main Screen Part SnagIt s Most Popular Captures ..7 Information for Previous SnagIt Command Line Options ..11 The SnagIt Main Interface 13 The SnagIt Main Interface Overview ..13 Normal View ..13 Classic Compact File Menu ..17 Capture Menu ..18 Classic View and Compact View Tools ..19 Input Menu ..20 Output Menu ..22 Filters Menu ..23 Mode View Menu ..26 Tools Menu ..27 Contents i SnagIt Online help Guide Program Preferences ..28 help Menu.

2 31 Main Interface Hotkeys ..33 Working with Profiles 35 Overview of The Profiles Context Sensitive Menu ..36 Preconfigured Profiles ..37 Basic Capture Profiles ..38 Other Capture Using the Profile Settings Pane ..40 How to Change the Capture Settings ..40 About the Unsaved Profile ..42 Save Settings as an Updated Save Settings as a New Using the Add New Profile Wizard ..44 Step 1. Selecting the Capture Mode ..44 Step 2. Selecting the Step 3. Selecting the Output ..45 Step 4. Selecting Options ..46 Step 5. Selecting the Step 6. Saving the New Profile ..47 Setting Profile Hotkeys ..48 Remembering your Setting Hotkeys for Existing Setting Hotkeys for New Organizing Your Profiles ..50 Organize Profiles Dialog Box Tools ..51 Importing a Single Profile.

3 52 Importing a Single Profile via the Windows Explorer ..53 Importing a Group of Profiles ..53 ii Contents Online help Guide SnagIt Importing a Group of Profiles via the Windows Explorer ..54 Import Group Dialog Box ..54 Exporting a Profile or Group of Profiles ..55 Exporting All Profiles ..55 Include the Following Items to Import / Set Up Your Capture 57 Capture Setup Overview ..57 Capture Modes ..58 Image Capture ..59 Text Capture ..59 Video Capture ..60 Web Capture Capture Mode & Input Combinations ..63 Input Properties ..78 Capture Accessing Effects ..87 Effect Options Description Color Depth Effect ..91 Color Substitution Color Correction Effect ..96 Image Resolution Effect ..98 Image Scaling Effect ..99 Caption Effect ..100 Border Effect.

4 104 Edge Effects ..105 Watermark Effect ..107 Trim Effect ..109 Text Layout Effect ..111 Set Font Word Wrap Effect ..112 Contents iii SnagIt Online help Guide Text Caption Effect ..113 Video Caption Web Capture Effect ..117 Capture Include Cursor ..120 Preview Window ..120 Timer Setup ..120 Keep Links ..124 Multiple Area ..124 Record Audio ..125 Working with the Scroll Features ..125 Auto Scroll Window Capture ..125 Scrolling Region Capture ..127 Scroll Active Window Capture ..128 Custom Scroll Capture ..129 Edit Your Captures 131 Editing Overview ..131 Capture Preview Window Introduction ..131 Enhancement Viewing a Capture in the Capture Preview Window ..134 Turning Off the Capture Preview Window ..134 Getting Familiar with the Preview Window Looking at the Preview Window Toolbars.

5 136 SnagIt Capture Preview Window Menu Options ..140 Capture Preview Window File Capture Preview Window Edit Menu ..143 Capture Preview Window View Menu ..145 Capture Preview Window Image Menu ..147 Capture Preview Window Colors Menu ..148 Capture Preview Window Effects Working with the Paint Tools Pane ..153 iv Contents Online help Guide SnagIt Working with Vector Objects ..154 Pan Tool ..157 Zoom Tool ..157 Selection Tool ..158 Eyedropper Line Tool ..159 Arrow Tool ..159 Shape Highlight Tool ..160 Paintbrush Tool ..160 Stamp Tool ..161 Callout Text Tool ..163 Fill Airbrush Tool ..164 Eraser Tool ..164 Working with the Tasks Pane ..164 Tasks Pane and Task Page Tasks Pane Options Description Table ..166 Edge Effects Task Page ..168 Spotlight & Magnify Task Perspective & Shear Task Watermark Task Page.

6 173 Border Task Page ..174 Caption Task Resize Image Task Resize Canvas Task Page ..177 Trim Task Page ..178 Rotate & Flip Task Page ..178 Color Depth Task Page ..180 Color Editing Task Page ..181 Image Processing Task Page ..187 Contents v SnagIt Online help Guide Links/Hotspots Task Page ..195 Capture Preview Window Keyboard Share Your Captures 199 Overview of Capture Capture Mode & Output No Output ..200 Output to a Printer ..200 Output to the Output to a Send Capture by E-Mail ..201 Output to the SnagIt Catalog ..202 Send Capture by FTP ..202 Send Capture by Instant Messenger ..202 Output to a Program ..203 Output to Multiple Outputs ..203 Output to the Capture Preview Window ..203 Output Properties ..204 Print Tab ..205 Image File Tab.

7 207 Send E-Mail Tab ..215 Catalog Browser Program Tab ..217 Instant Messenger Tab ..219 FTP Tab ..221 Text Output to a Text File ..222 Web Output to a File ..223 Web Output to the Catalog Browser ..224 Video Output to a File ..224 Video Output to the Catalog Browser ..227 Video Output to the Web ..228 Selecting an Output in the Capture Preview Window ..229 vi Contents Online help Guide SnagIt Helpful SnagIt Features 231 SnagIt Features Overview ..231 SnagIt s Companion SnagIt Editor ..232 Catalog Browser ..236 Batch Conversion ..247 Creating a Gallery Web Page from Image Files ..249 SnagIt Printer Creating a Printer to Use with Printer Capture ..252 Printer Capture Working with Multipage Captures using SnagIt Printer Capture ..258 SnagIt OneClick.

8 261 Performing a Capture from within SnagIt OneClick ..262 Customizing the Behavior and Appearance of SnagIt OneClick ..263 Contents vii SnagIt Online help Guide viii Contents Online help Guide SnagIt Getting Started With SnagIt Welcome to SnagIt ! Thank you for choosing SnagIt ! SnagIt is the premier application to use for all of your screen capturing needs. Whatever you can see on your screen, SnagIt easily captures for your immediate use. The following topics will help you to quickly get started using SnagIt and become comfortable with the interface: Taking Your First Capture SnagIt Tutorial Videos Interface Overview SnagIt s Most Popular Captures Information for Previous SnagIt Users Command Line Options What's New in this Version System Requirements To run SnagIt , your system must meet these specifications: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, or XP installed and configured on your system.

9 Windows Me, 2000, and XP users require Internet Explorer or later. Windows 98, Me, 2000 users require Windows Installer Windows 98 users require Internet Explorer or later. 90 MHz processor (400 MHz recommended.) 16 MB RAM (64 MB recommended.) 20 MB of free hard disk space (30 MB for CD-ROM installations due to video tutorials.) Web Capture mode requires Internet Explorer or later. SnagIt Instant Messenger output requires either Windows Messenger or later, or MSN Messenger - For mail output, a 32-bit MAPI mail client. For audio recording and playback, a Windows-supported sound card and microphone. Getting Started With SnagIt 1 SnagIt Online help Guide To use the Keep Links option, you must have Internet Explorer or later, or Firefox or later.

10 (Most current versions recommended.) To use the Keep Links option, you must have Active Accessibility SnagIt add-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook work with Office 2000, Office XP, or later. SnagIt add-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer works with Internet Explorer or later. SnagIt plug-in for Adobe FrameMaker works with FrameMaker Version or later. Getting Additional help If you cannot find what you are looking for in this help system, please see the help Menu topic for more ways to get help with SnagIt . Enterprise Installation For information on enterprise installation of SnagIt , please go to the SnagIt Documentation Web site and find the section titled SnagIt Enterprise Installation Guide . This section provides links to the Enterprise Installation documents for specific versions of SnagIt .