It’s this simple: If you’re looking for a screen capture program, Snagit is the one to get. Snagit also gets new dressed-up menu icons. And grabbing text is also improved you can now grab text from a Web page, maintain its formatting, and then format it by changing the font, size, color and so on. It’s now easier to fine-tune what you’ll capture by using new cross-hairs, which gives you greater control when you’re capturing a region of a screen. There are other useful additions, such as more-consistent scrolling and the ability to upload videos to the hosting site, also owned by Techsmith, makers of Snagit. In addition, you can now add several fancy effects to your capture, such as adding a “page curl” effect which makes an image look as if one corner is being folded over as if a page were being turned.

There’s more to Snagit as well, including a very useful “transparency” feature, which lets you capture and use graphics without their background colors so that they can be blended more easily into your presentation or Web page.

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