Best Practices for Saving Your Snagit Files
Learn best practices for saving your files for future editing, supporting transparency, and opening across platforms.
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Learn best practices for saving your files for future editing, supporting transparency, and opening across platforms.
In this tutorial:
Open and edit the same Snagit files on both Windows and Mac computers. Snagit’s SNAGX file format replaces the former SNAG format for Windows and SNAGPROJ format for Mac and is compatible with both platforms.
Individuals and teams who use Snagit 2022 on both Windows and Mac computers can open, edit, and share SNAGX files with ease.
Note: To open and edit captures from previous versions of Snagit for Windows, see Convert Your Previous Captures.
Snagit automatically saves your image captures and any edits as a SNAGX file in the Library. See Introduction to Snagit Library.
To save a SNAGX file to another location:
Note: The SNAGX file format can only be opened in Snagit version 2022 or later.
To share captures to previous versions of Snagit, save your image as SNAG (Windows) or SNAGPROJ (Mac). For details about feature compatibility between versions, see Snagit File Format Compatibility.
To save your image capture as a different file type, such as JPG or PNG, for use in a different application:
The new file and the SNAGX file both appear in the tray. It is possible to continue editing the file. However, when you exit Editor, Snagit flattens the new file and you cannot edit annotations or text further.
Set up your image capture to save directly to a specific file type.
To set the default file format from the Save As dialog, select Share menu > Save As Preferences.
File Formats | Windows | Mac |
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SNAGX – Snagit Capture File | ![]() | ![]() |
SNAG – Snagit v8-v2021 Capture File | ![]() | |
SNAGPROJ – Snagit v1.0-v2021 Capture File | ![]() | |
BMP – OS/2 Bitmap, Windows Bitmap | ![]() | ![]() |
CUR – Windows Cursor | ![]() | |
EMF – Windows Enhanced Metafile Format | ![]() | |
EPS – Grayscale Encapsulated Postscript | ![]() | |
GIF – CompuServe GIF | ![]() | ![]() |
ICO – Windows Icon | ![]() | |
JPG – JPEG Image | ![]() | ![]() |
MHT – Web Page with Image | ![]() | |
PDF – Adobe Portable Document Format | ![]() | ![]() |
PNG – Portable Network Graphics | ![]() | ![]() |
PSD – Adobe PhotoShop | ![]() | |
RAS – Sun Raster | ![]() | |
TGA – Truevision Targa | ![]() | |
TIF – Tagged Image File | ![]() | ![]() |
WFX – WinFax | ![]() | |
WMF – Windows Metafile Format | ![]() | |
WPG – WordPerfect | ![]() |
Note: This tutorial is for Snagit version 2022. Previous versions may look or function differently.