
Re-Snap lets you take another screenshot while keeping your markup. One clever feature that Skitch has is Re-Snap. Not entirely groundbreaking when compared to the typical cross-hair capture, but if you’re trying to get a collection of screenshots at the exact same dimensions, it may be helpful. Click Snap to capture whatever is framed in the editing window. It turns the Skitch editing window see-through–like a frame–and then lets you move the window around your desktop. The Full-Screen snap is self-explanatory. While grabbing a screenshot, it shows you dimensions as well. If you want a countdown, say, if you’d like to capture a menu, you can hold shift while drawing your capture region. It lets you click and drag around a region to capture it. Each of these can be assigned its own global hotkey. You’ve got your standard crosshairs snap, a full-screen snap, and a frame snap.

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Let’s dive into each of these Skitch features one at a time.įor the free version, you get three kinds of “ snaps” with Skitch.

Skitch is also working on amping up its social capabilities with stats and analytics for your images ( coming soon) and Twitter-friendly shareable links. So, the main thrust of Skitch is that it’s a tool that allows you to capture screenshots from your webcam, your desktop or your web browser, edit and tag your screenshots with markup, text, and callouts and then share them using Skitch’s free image upload and sharing service. Watch it if you want, and then meet me below.īack? Okay, good. I’d leave this job to this fuzzy pink bear featured in the video below, but in spite of his cutesy wutesy-ness, there’s not a lot of meat in that introductory video. I apologize for this brief stylistic departure.) Meet Skitch: The Camera for the InternetĪllow me to introduce you to Skitch. That’s so I can show you how Skitch works with blogging.

( Also, notice that this will be the rare groovyPost article where the screenshots are not taken with SnagIt.
