In this video I'm going to show you the best way to take screenshots on a Windows computer.
Its Snagit VS the Snipping Tool.
Let the games begin.
Hi, I'm Erin from Techsmith, where we help you show what you know.
We've all been in situations where we need quick screenshots.
Windows comes with a built in tool.
But is that enough?
Today we'll compare Snagit and the Snipping Tool.
So you can better decide which tool fits your needs.
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Your needs for screenshots could be anything.
The Snipping Tool is simple and if you need a couple of screen grabs every once in a while,
the free native Windows tool will do.
But most of us who do this task a lot need more than just basic screenshots.
Thats where Snagit comes in.
While both Snagit and Snipping Tool can take screen grabs of specific areas of the screen.
Snagit goes much further allowing you to take a scrolling screenshot, record your screen
as a video, or even make an animated GIF.
Snagit lets you adjust the resolution of your screen grabs, which means no more blurry screenshots
around here.
Next round!
The Snipping Tool only has the pen and highlighter, which can make some basic adjustments to the
image.
Having the pen tool means that your markups only look as good as your ability to write
or draw with a mouse.
Anything more advanced than that, and you'll have to export the screen grab to another
application like paint or Photoshop.
Here comes Snagit's one two punch.
Snagit has built in tools to quickly create things like arrows and boxes thats helps highlight
important parts of your image.
And its not just faster than the pen tool, it looks cleaner.
Ready for some more knock out features?
You can blur, you can remove text, or create word bubbles and other annotations.
If you're looking to do more than shaky scribbles on a screen, then Snagit will save you a ton
of time.
Now that we have our screenshots and there all marked up, what about sharing?
Both programs can copy and paste your image into another window such as a chat window
or a document.
If you need to save a file, both can do that too.
However Snagit gives you even more options.
Everything from.
Dropbox and Google Drive, to Microsoft Word and more.
If you frequently use one of these destinations already, create a hotkey to save the capture
automatically to that platform.
Not only can you capture both images and video Snagit allows you to do things like extract
text from an image.
This can be very handy because it allows you to copy text from anything you see on your
screen.
From a document you captured with your phone, to a scanned image or a PDF.
Snagit also allows you to blur things like personally identifiable information, or images
you might not want to be seen.
Snagit has an even more advanced feature called simplify which turns all text and images into
placeholder shapes to conceal information, or hold its place.
Sick of Zoom meetings yet?
Record your screen and webcam as a picture in picture video, and select your microphone
so you can narrate walkthroughs as you do them.
Finally Snagit keeps its own library so you can easily find everything later and even
pick up where you left off editing.
Bonus points if you create your own tags to find your captures quicker.
And that library can back up to the cloud service of your choice.
So if you capture something at work, you can open it up anywhere else later.
And here's the kicker, while Snagit offers a ton more options and features it remains
incredibly easy and intuitive to use.
If you can click and drag, you can use Snagit.
Alright everyone's thinking it, how much do each of these cost?
Let's start with the Snipping Tool.
The Snipping Tool comes built into Windows, so if you have Windows then you already have
the Snipping Tool sitting there free and ready to use.
Snagit has a free trial which you can get a link to down in the description bellow.
After the trial Snagit costs just $62.99.
Plus with the maintenance that comes included you get next years release free!
As well as Snagit's certification course's and premium support.
Obviously getting Snipping Tool for free is very enticing.
Especially if you're only doing simple screen grabs.
But if you're a busy a professional who needs high quality screenshots, video recordings,
or markups to explain a process right the first time.
Give Snagit a try.
We'd love to know if we convinced you, are you going to move to Snagit or stick with
the Snipping Tool?
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