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Capturing with SnagIt

The primary function of SnagIt is to capture data in their many different forms on your system. This is done through the use of Capture Profiles and Capture Modes.

The Capture Modes

The Mode controls the way that SnagIt will capture information. This includes the ability to take image, text, video, and Web captures. To choose another category or kind of capture, select the desired capture profile where the mode is indicated by the icon within the list.

	Image Capture	SnagIt captures an image of your screen or any portion of it. You can capture images of any software application, DirectX games, from scanners, or anything else you see on your computer screen. Once captured, you can send the image to many outputs including a graphic file, the printer, e-mail, or even a web server.
	Text Capture	SnagIt captures the text you see on the screen as editable, ASCII text. SnagIt can even save the text in tab delimited format so that it can be easily imported into spreadsheets or database applications for sorting and other manipulation.
	Video Capture	SnagIt records any on-screen activity on your Windows desktop. Capture all your mouse movements and application action and save the video as an industry-standard AVI file. You can also use SnagIt to create time-lapse video of desktop activity over a period of time.
	Web Capture	With Web Capture, you can simultaneously capture all the .png, .jpg and .gif images from a Web site. All you need to do is type in the Web site address. You can then choose the Web page link depth, which is the number of levels of directories from the root Web address to be included in the search.
	Printer Capture	SnagIt captures anything you would normally send to a printer and spools it to an image file instead. You do this by printing to the SnagIt virtual printer from any Windows application. Printer Capture settings are accessed from the Tools > SnagIt Printer Capture Settings inside SnagIt.

The Capture Profiles

Many of the most common types of captures have been saved as Capture Profiles and are ready for you to use as soon as SnagIt is installed. Profiles contain a set of capture instructions including the mode, input and output settings, filters, and more. To choose a capture profile to work with, simply select the profile from the list and then click on the Capture button.

These are preconfigured for you so you can begin to take captures right away. The Capture Profiles have icons next to them to let you know which mode is being used.

• The Image Capture Profiles include region, window, scrolling window, menu, object, freehand, DirectX, and entire screen.

• The Text Capture Profile will capture text out of the window that you select, and save it to a text file.

• The Video Capture Profile will record a fixed region of the screen and save it to an AVI file.

• The Web Capture Profiles will prompt for a Web address to capture all images from a Website. The files will be saved to the SnagIt Catalog folder.

SnagIt's Most Popular Captures

The following graphic shows you several of the ways that you can capture with SnagIt. With SnagIt's more than 40 ways to capture, combined with the use of SnagIt's companion applications, the creative and interesting possibilities for creating screen captures are endless.

Screen: Capture everything that shows on your computer desktop including the cursor if desired.

Rectangular Region: Capture a rectangular shape anywhere on your desktop.

Window: Capture an application window, dialog box, window frame, etc.

Scrolling Window: Capture the contents of a window, including the part not seen.

Game (DirectX): Capture scenes from DirectX games or DirectX media players.

Text: Capture text in tab-delimited format to import into spreadsheets or database applications.

Object: Capture a specific item on your computer desktop such as a button, icon, toolbar, etc.

Menu: Capture dropdown and cascading menus from Windows programs.

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