Both programs provide image editing, so you don’t have to use a separate program to crop, annotate, or otherwise touch up your screenshots. SnagIt’s All-In-One capture type understands window regions, often making it much easier to capture parts of application windows, such as toolbars and buttons, which otherwise requires exacting pixel-by-pixel nudges of the Selection rectangle. Voila both automatically scroll and capture long Web pages. In the meantime, other programs have come along with broader feature sets, with many useful features Snapz lacks. The program has actually been rebuilt in the intervening years so it still works with OS X, but there are no major new features (in fact, some features have been removed). Snapz looks and acts almost identically to version 2, released in 2004 it’s as if it has been preserved in amber. It does a good job of captures from high-resolution Retina displays as well. You can pick a folder as the default destination of the files, and you have the option of using email, a printer, or the Clipboard as the destination instead. The program allows you to automatically name the capture files with a prefix and serialized number, or you can name each shot as you snap it. Clicking the Preview button shows you exactly how the final image will look. Besides the file format, you can adjust the color, scale the image, and more. Finely-Tuned Output: Unlike most other programs, you can change the look of your image before the capture, rather than after. Pressing the Return or Enter keys remembers your settings for future use and finalizes the capture. A Preview button shows you how the image will look with all settings applied, which can be a big time-saver. For example, you can scale the capture, change it from color to grayscale, insert a watermark, choose the output file format, and decide whether the cursor should be visible. You also get a settings palette, allowing you to change different aspects of the capture this palette changes to provide appropriate settings for each capture type. Finally, the Movie capture type allows you to select a portion of your screen to record video and optionally two audio tracks: the system audio and a microphone track.Īfter choosing any of the four capture types (by clicking its button or pressing the 1 through 4 keys), you select the exact part of your screen you want to capture. The Selection capture type gives you crosshairs to select a portion of the screen this is also the capture type you use to shoot menus (older versions of Snapz captured menus more cleanly using the Objects capture type, so this is a regression in the current version). You can also select the menu bar, but not menus. You can select multiple objects in a single capture. Objects captures the contents of any open window, even if the window is partially obscured. Screen captures the entire screen, or whatever screen you choose if you have multiple monitors. The screen freezes and the program’s main window pops up, allowing you to choose from the four capture types. You begin a screen capture in Snapz by pressing a user-designated hotkey or choosing the program’s icon in your Applications folder. Grab some pixels Start Your Capture: Snapz Pro X’s capture palette allows you to choose your capture type and the destination of the image. But Snapz (I’m shortening the name from here on for convenience) hasn’t aged well, hasn’t kept up with the times, and is no longer the best choice, in terms of features or in value. Snapz Pro X was among the first, tracing its lineage back to 1996, garnering many passionate users down the years I’m one of them (it also won a Macworld Editor’s Choice Award inĢ004).
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