You can do it easily using the SnagIt Profile wizard which is located on top-right of the software. Its pretty much 6 step process and at the end allows you to save with a name. You can even create a group for similar profiles and save them together.

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Creating Profiles ( Video Tutorial) by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 19, 2007, 10:32 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

However Adding watermark is tedious if you have to do it for all the images one by one. Here is a small feature of SnagIt which allows you to batch convert all the images and apply watermark to them.

Open you SnagIt software and check the left pane ( left hand side) . You will find something called as Related Task. Look for Convert Images. Click on it.

• This will open up a wizard which allows you to select any number of files and convert them into desired format with All effects.
• Its a 4 step process, So when you reached 2nd Step, You will be asked to add Filter . Click on modify button and add watermark.
• Select Next and finally you will be asked for File names and Output directory ( where you want the watermarked images to be stored ).
• You can preview your watermark and adjust according to it. However there is one drawback here. You are not allowed to add text as watermark, Instead you will need add another image as watermark.
• Click Next and You are done.

Have Your say!

We have covered a lot with SnagIt Tips and Tricks and I hope you are enjoying it. There are very few things left which will take just one more post. So if you are little getting bored, just hold up for one more day. Thus tutorial is just to give you a head start with SnagIt, so You can do welll when it comes to presentations

If you have any doubts or questions feel free to say!!!. I would love to have some feedback so I can improve and give you a better output in future!

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Adding watermark in batch to images by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 18, 2007, 10:30 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Its divided into 4 parts 1. Enabling Link capture, 2. Activating Flash Hotspots, 3. Editing Advanced Flash Animation and 4. Making a Flash or PDF with links

Enabling Link Capture

• Open SnagIt and Go to Profile section
• Click on the Input part and you will see a menu. Click on the “Keep Links”
• Keep the web site or page open and capture an image

Activating Flash Hotspots

• After you capture the image, it will open in SnagIt editor. Now on the right hand side bottom , look for Links/Hotspots item. Click on it
• Now all the links within the captured images will be highlighted with red. Select one of them and you will be able to add tooltip and link address. Edit them as your wish and you are just closer to the last step.

Editing Advanced Flash Animations

Now you just don’t want to edit the links and create a flash out of it right!!. We need to add some interaction to it. Right under the link address, you will see “Advanced Flash Hotspot”, Click on it and fun part begins.

• With this, you will able to add Text or an Image annotation or simply make an image or a text appear when somebody hover’s its mouse on the link.
• Additionally you can do a Mouse Over Highlight too. Pretty Cool eh!

Creating a Flash / PDF

Now since we have done so much of hard work we will bring it in action. I am going to make a flash so after finishing all the stuff just save it in .SWF format and play it. A small example is right below. Its a flash you will be able to click the links. ( Hover mouse over “^ cool extensions….”) Simple and straight!!

Hope you had lot of fun!!! and do ask me in comments if you have any doubt in this!

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Capturing Links and embed in PDF or Flash by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 17, 2007, 10:28 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Capturing Multiple Areas

SnagIt comes with an inbuilt capability which you need to activate , so that you can capture different regions. Here is the way to do it.

• Open SnagIt and Scroll down to Profile area
• Now among the 4 areas ( Input, Output, Effects and Options) , take a look at the Options.
• You will be seeing 6 icons among which one is Double Window. Select it

• Now get ready with a window you want to capture and hit the camera button or capture button.
• Now the trick is, You should select any region by using mouse + left click and then repeat it
• All you captured sections will be inverted in color ( which makes sure you know what you captured )
• After you are done, right click and click on Finish, If not you can say restart or cancel. Look at the image for better understanding

However the Images wont be put together when you finish, The SnagIt editor maintains the distance between them as they were on the page itself

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Capturing Multiple areas ( Window or Web Page ) by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 16, 2007, 10:26 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

You have a wall paper on your desktop but you have no idea where to look in for ? Moreover you download a cool software which has really impressive ICON , You want it but How ? Here are 3 tips

1. Under profile settings Look for Input
2. Click on it and you will lot of option , Click on Advanced
3. You will see lot of options which you can use to take images from clipboard or Dos Prompt and others.
4. Use the Wallpaper Option ( 1 ) and then click on Camera icon ( Capture )
5. You will see your wallpaper available in SnagIt editor.
6. To extract the Icons, Select Program Files (3) and same will happen again.
7. You can even use the extended window option (2 ), to capture a runtime preview of a window. This way you will able to dynamically change the size ( Check the image below)

Recommended Download: SnagIt Accessories

Visit the SnagIt official Accessories page to get exciting tools like Stamps ( Number or Keyboard) , Profiles Firefox extensions. I would recommend to get these so you would be able to use it as we go through this series. And its Absolutely Free and it wont take more than a minute to download or install it.

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Capturing Wallpaper, Extracting EXE Icons and Accessories by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 15, 2007, 10:24 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Enabling Advanced Image format

1. Open your SnagIt Editor and go to Output ( Under Profile)
2. Next , select properties
3. Another windows will open up with Image options as the first

Check the image, you need to check the Show Advanced Types. This will add more image formats for you.Now next time you save your file you can choose from the save option. Moreover I will suggest to set a folder for all the outputs to be saved at one place, instead of asking it every time.

Setting up the Automatic File Name option

If you have to take a couple of images on run, SnagIt asking you for a file name,every time, is real trouble. Instead if you can fix a filename prefix by which SnagIt Editor can save all your captures will be a good option. Look at the image above. You will notice there is an option for File Name.

• It Allows you to make it prompt for file name every time
• Fixed Filename ( Warning this could be dangerous if you are taking number of images, as they will be over written)
• Third option is what we look for it. Click the radio button and then options button

Here you will be able to choose a prefix and a sub-prefix like computer name or your name with date formats and others. This can save lot of time of yours as you will not be prompted for entering name all the time.

Download SnagIt for Free

Step 1: Download the demo version of SnagIt 7.2.5 from TechSmith FTP servers Here

Step 2: You need to go the TechSmith website here and request for a SnagIt 7 Software registration key.It will be emailed to you. Use it unlock the software.

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Enabling Advanced Image formats and Auto file name option by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 15, 2007, 10:21 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

How to send captured images to Multiple outputs

Now suppose you want to send a captured image both to Excel and Word document , How you go about it. Here are simple steps

1. Open you SnagIt tool
2. Under profile, look for output. Click on it
3. You should be able to see Multiple Output Menu, Check it.
4. Now again click on Output and select Word and Excel options one by one. They will be highlighted after selection
5. Now capture an screen shot ( Using the Red Camera button , I will tell you later why)
6. Take a look at SnagIt editor where is says Done.
7. You will be able to see Word and Excel Options with Finished added there.
8. Now hit CTRL + ENTER and the output will be sent to new Word and Excel file.

Now the Catch : I tried using the Oneclick feature of SnagIt for multiple output but every time it captured it to SnagIt editor, the Multiple option for word and excel ( Like one you see above) never showed up . If I am not wrong TechSmith should do something about it, as users are forced to use the Camera Button.

Download SnagIt for Free

Step 1: Download the demo version of SnagIt 7.2.5 from TechSmith FTP servers below: Here

Step 2: You need to go the TechSmith website here and request for a SnagIt 7 Software registration key.It will be emailed to you. Use it unlock the software.

So what are you waiting for Get SnagIt for free and Roll on with me to learn new things for next couple of days in Workshop Series

SnagIt Tips and Tricks : How to send captured images to Multiple outputs by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on December 15, 2007, 9:58 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.