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By Carol S. Holzberg

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nagit 2018 is an exciting upgrade

to TechSmith’s flagship screen

capture, recording, and image

editing application. Snagit

2018’s new features of interest

to educational users include built-in Optical

Character Recognition (OCR), which enables users to edit

or extract text from images, and Smart Move options that

identify and define objects within a capture for repositioning

or removal.

Quality and Effectiveness: Snagit 2018 offers much more

than rudimentary capture. Users can easily modify captures

with attention-grabbing arrows, buttons, numbers, speech

bubbles, framed borders, and more. Special editing tools

also make it easy to tag, resize, trim, flip, or rotate an image,

change the canvas color, or apply special effects. In addition

to OCR and Smart Move, Snagit 2018 also creates videos of screen

movements and webcam captures for output as MP4 movies.

Ease of Use: The program is easy to install, and it’s also simple to

personalize default settings. The Snagit website offers easy-to-follow

tutorials, how-to videos, and operational tips.

Creative Use of Technology: Snagit 2018 offers many flexible

capture settings and special tools to improve the appearance of static

screen or video captures. Two tools— Grab Text and Smart Move—are

new to this version. Grab Text enables users to extract text from a

capture for pasting in another application such as Google Docs or

Microsoft Word. This feature comes in handy for using text in an

assignment, sharing the text of an error message, extracting text

from a Flash-based webpage, and more. Smart Move enables users

to find and move, copy, or delete objects or text in a captured image.

Snagit 2018 retains favorite features from previous versions, like

Panoramic Scrolling Capture and Time Delay. Users can record

screen videos with or without the cursor, system audio, voiced

narration, or the computer’s built-in webcam. After the captured

video opens, users can trim away unwanted portions or create

animated GIFs. Sharing options enable users to save, send, or share

captures directly to a printer, PDF, YouTube, Google Drive, email,

Dropbox, or FTP. Windows users can download additional sharing

profiles preconfigured to send an image or video capture directly to

third-party websites and applications such as Facebook, Microsoft

PowerPoint, and Twitter.

Suitability for Use in a School Environment: Snagit 2018 gives

users more control over captured images and recorded screen video

and also offers sophisticated editing tools, special effects, and stamps.

Stamp collections such as Algebra, Charts and Graphs, Emojis,

Geometry, Map, and Math are available primarily for Windows (with

some for Macintosh). The Snagit Toolbar can also be customized and

the TechSmith also offers a host of tip-rich blogs.

PRODUCT REVIEWS

SNAGIT 2018

techsmith.com n Retail Price: $49.95 for one license; $24.95 upgrade. Volume pricing available.

TOP FEATURES

• Built-in OCR allows users to extract text from a captured screen for use in
  other applications.


• Pre-configured capture-sharing profiles simplify output directly to third-party
  applications.


• Robust editing tools make it easy to personalize images.

OVERALL RATING:

Snagit 2018 gives

users creative control

over their captures. Features

such as Grab Text, Smart

Move, scrolling capture,

special stamps, and video

screencasting make this

software well worth its

purchase price.

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