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Add Interactive Flash Hotspots to your Captures

Using SnagIt’s hotspot feature, you can specify parts of the image that, when moused over, will display descriptive text or images, or when clicked upon, will open a Web page. This short tutorial will show you how easy it is to add a Flash hotspot to a SnagIt capture.

Follow these steps:

1. Make sure that the image that you want to capture is open on your computer desktop.
2. Without minimizing the image you want to capture, open SnagIt.
3. Select the Region capture profile from Basic Capture Profiles.

4. Click Capture.
   
   The SnagIt window disappears, and you see the Web page and a finger pointer cursor with crosshairs.
5. Click and hold the left mouse button as you drag to select the image you want to capture.
6. Release the button to complete the capture.
7. When complete, the capture appears in the Capture Preview window.
8. Click Links/Hotspots in the Task pane.
   
9. Choose a shape for your hotspot.
   
10. Click and drag to select an area of your image to contain the hotspot.
11. Enter text for the tooltip that displays when you hover over the hotspot in the file image.
12. Enter the link address of the item you want to open when you click the hotspot.

13. Click Return to Tasks to return to your image. (At this point, you will no longer be able to see the hotspot.)
14. Click Save As in the Output toolbar.
    
    
15. In the Save As dialog box, enter a file name and choose one of the following file types in the Save as type dropdown list: Web page with image (*.mht), Adobe PDF (*.pdf), or Macromedia Flash (*.swf).
16. Click OK to close the Save As dialog box.
17. Click Done to close the Capture Preview window.
18. Find and open your file that contains the hotspot. To see a hotspot, hover over the area of the image where you added the hotspot. We saved our file as a Web page with image (*.mht) file.

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