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The SnagIt Catalog Browser

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

The SnagIt catalog browser is pretty handy for looking through a lot of files at once. You can get to it from the main SnagIt window. Just click on SnagIt Catalog Browser.
Then, all you have to do is browse through your directories in the Explorer-type window on the left and look at […]

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Using SnagIt to modify batches of images

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

SnagIt has a utility that allows you to convert a group of photos at one time. You can change image dimensions, file type and many other things.
To access this utility open SnagIt and in the related tasks window on the left side click the Convert Images link under Related Tasks.
This opens a […]

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SnagIt tip # 5: The freehand drawing shape

July 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

We talked about simple shapes in the last tip.
Now let’s talk about the freeform shape tool.  This is a pretty cool tool. 
Here is a laptop that I did pretty quickly by using the freehand shape creator. 
  
 It is easy to use, let’s take a look by making a car.
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SnagIt tip # 4: Shapes

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

The SnagIt Image Editor has a few basic shapes: the circle, the square and a square with rounded corners. 
 In addition to these basic shapes there is a tool that lets you draw shapes that it then fills in.  With this tool, which I will demonstrate in the next tip, you can make just about […]

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SnagIt tip # 3 Using opacity and text bubbles to make graphics

July 14th, 2007 · No Comments

This tutorial will help you make your images a little more advanced, though I am really only talking about the output.   You can do some cool stuff with the callouts we talked about by adding opacity to them.
First, let’s talk about opacity.  This term simply means how see-through something is.  When it is opaque you cannot see […]

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SnagIt tip # 2: Using callout bubbles to create images

July 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I know that we have just touched the surface of what SnagIt can do but I thought maybe I would jump ahead a bit and write about one of my favorite tools in the SnagIt image editing application, Callouts.
Of course, “Callouts” might be a misleading term because I use the boxes and circles to […]

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SnagIt tip # 1: Using the selection tool

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

In our first tutorial we talked about using the Crop tool to cut an area out of your screen capture using SnagIt. This same tool can be used to, in a way, free an area of the image so that it can be moved around or modified independently.
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