Starting to document a new application and wondering what people are using to grab screenshots and annotate them. I know I can do all of this in separate applications but I’m looking for something that’s convenient all-in-one package that let’s me grab a screenshot and within seconds start annotating it.
I’ve used Skitch in the past and it’s okay but their integration with EverNote seems to hamstrung the app (plus I really don’t want to use EverNote). I’ve tried Share Bucket and its interface on the Mac looks like it’s a (very poor) port from an iPad application (sorry, I like having menu’s on a desktop application. I looked through a variety of apps on the Mac App Store and quite a few are sold as SAAS and for something that I might use once or twice a year it’s not worth the money.
I while back I used Snapz Pro to grab screenshots because it has the ability to select the window and add a nice drop shadow. A few years ago I stopped updating it because it broke in every new version of the Mac OS. But I really liked that feature. Is there another utility that does the same thing?
Clarify (http://clarify-it.com) sometimes gets recommended as an alternative for my solution - but I stand by the belief they have different behaviors and are for different situations. It can screenshot, annotate, and export to PDF.
Screen shots:
a. cmd-shift-3 create a screen-shot and put it in the Clipboard
b. cmd-3 create a screen-shot and save it in the Desktop folder (Screen Shot .png / Capture de?cran 2016-07-29 a? 09.14.25.png)
For cmd-4 / cmd-shift-4: same as cmd-3 / cmd-shift-3 +:
If you press the space bar and click: make a screen shot of the clicked window * and save it to disk (same location/name as cmd-shift-3)
If you select a screen area, you will get this area.
For notation:
Preview is your friend. In the image loaded window, click in one of the icons from the right (the suitcase), you reveal a tool bar: use what you need to make your notations.
NOTA: the screen shot feature(s) on WIndows is more or less the same (window / full screen) and there is another way that I forgot because it does not saved the HiDPI screen and I stopped using it.
There may even be a retarding ability (on both platforms ?) I forgot too.
For LINUX:
A more trained person advice is needed.
PS: most of the time, I use TextEdit (from Apple), Preview and the Finder to create user manuals with rich text and images (rtfd files --> print to pdf) on OS X.
I knew I forgot something !
If the window you click in is not the frontmost window, you can get its contents provided you can click in it ! Isnt it nice ?
OS X.
Cmd-Shift-4 for windows. Fireworks for annotations. Sometimes Layers if I need only parts of the screenshot. ImageAlpha and ImageOptim for making the screenshots smaller.
I’m using Snapz Pro X for many years.
Still works fine for me in every OS X update in the past years.
Ambrosia Software still updates Snapz Pro X (Version 2.6.0 now).
You can also take a look at Ember by Real Mac Software.
The page seems to be unavailable for the moment, but you can still download a trial.
Here is a review of Ember, https://macsources.com/ember-mac
On Windows:
prntscr whole screen(s)
alt+prntscr the front window only
BTW: about screen.
There is a difference wetween OS X and Windows when there is two monitors: on Windows you get one file while on OS X you get two ( a ’ (1)’ suffix is appended in the second file).
I am using ShareX on Windows 10. it doesnt annotate. I grab it then paste it into paint.net and do the work there. I have not found an all-in-one in windows I like.
Sorry, Clarify at http://www.clarify-it.com. I whipped out documentation in almost no time. I already had the screenshots from Snapz Pro (found my license code and updated) but the annotation and editing features were exactly what I was looking for.