Snagit Themes

Maintain a consistent style in the annotations, arrows, text, and other tools used across your images for a project, website, or within your organization.

Create and share a theme based on a selected color palette and fonts for your project, organization, or style guide. Snagit automatically generates Quick Styles based on each theme.

Create a Theme

In Snagit Editor, click to select a tool.
The Quick Styles panel opens.
- Windows: Click the Theme dropdown and select the Create New option.
- Mac: Click the icon and select the Create New option.
In the Create New Theme dialog, click a Color dropdown and complete any of the following to select a color.
1. Click to select a preset color.
2. Click to select a color from the palette.
3. Click Mode to toggle between HEX and RGB color modes and enter a value or values.
4. Click the Eyedropper button and then click to select a color from anywhere on the screen.
Repeat for the other color dropdowns or click the to add an additional color. Continue until you have added the desired theme colors.

Tip: Select 4-8 colors.

It is recommended to select 4-8 colors for generating the new theme.
Click the Font tab and select a desired font from the dropdown.
Click the checkbox to enable or disable shadows for tools.
Enter a descriptive name in the Theme name field.
Click the Create button.

Snagit automatically generates a set of Quick Styles based on the colors selected. The new theme and Quick Styles are available in most tools.

To edit individual Quick Styles in the theme, see Quickly Access Favorite Styles and Tools.
Theme example

Edit a Theme

In Snagit Editor, click to select a tool.
The Quick Styles panel opens.
- Windows: In the Theme dropdown, click the icon next to the theme and select Edit.
- Mac: Click the icon and select Edit.
The Edit Theme dialog appears. Complete the desired edits.
Click Save.

IMPORTANT
Editing a theme overwrites your existing Quick Styles in the theme. To maintain your existing styles, you can edit the Quick Styles individually. See Quickly Access Favorite Styles and Tools.

Export a Theme

Export and share a theme with colleagues to maintain consistency throughout visuals in a project, website, or throughout your organization.

In Snagit Editor, click to select a tool.
The properties for the selected tool appear in the Properties panel on the right-side of Snagit Editor.
- Windows: In the Theme dropdown, click the icon next to the theme and select Export.
- Mac: Click the icon and select Export Theme.
Choose a location and enter a file name. Click Save.

Snagit saves the theme as a SNAGTHEME file. You can send the file to others to import into Snagit.

Note: You must have Snagit Windows version 13.1 or later or Snagit Mac version 4.1 or later installed to import a theme.

Import a Theme

In Snagit Editor, click to select a tool.
The properties for the selected tool appear in the Properties panel on the right-side of Snagit Editor.
- Windows: Click the Theme dropdown and select Import.
- Mac: Click the icon and select Import.
Browse to select the SNAGTHEME file and click Open.