SnagIt Tips and Tricks : Capturing Wallpaper, Extracting EXE Icons and Accessories

By Ashish Mohta

Now you know to send captured to multiple documents and types of image formats which can be used with SnagIt, Lets have some fun!!! :smile: In this post we will talk about extracting wallpaper, Icons from image and some cool SnagIt Accessories which you should download.

Snagit Advanced Input optionsYou 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)

Live Image Preview of Captured images with SNag it

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.


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    • Techblissonline Dot Com, December 17, 2007:

      Many seem to be liking snagit :)

    • Brown Baron, December 17, 2007:

      Great series buddy. I never even knew about the add-ons. Thanks for letting me know :grin:

    • Ashish Mohta, December 19, 2007:

      @Brown: Thanks man. I am going to give an end to this series and there is a little surprise coming up.

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