RE: best application for taking screenshots (Windows)

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:01:40 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 16
> 
> Without a doubt SnagIT 32 from http://www.techsmith.com. <vbg>

SnagIt is what I used on my last project.

However ... at one point, I needed to capture the tool bar of the 
application I was documenting. I selected "Region" and got my screen 
shot. Due to the nature of the application, not all of the tool bar 
icons were active, so I opened a few windows and got two more shots 
with the other icons active.

What I wanted was one screen shot with all of the tool bar icons 
active. 

I tried PaintShop Pro 6.0, and when I selected an icon and tried to 
paste it onto one of the tool bars, PSP created a new window for 
me--with the copied icon in it.

I tried SnagIt Studio with similar results, and Microsoft's image 
editor that comes with HTML Help Workshop with no joy at all--!

I finally ended up compressing the files and sending them to my home 
e-mail account ... where I decompressed them and fixed the graphics 
with the Mac-only program Graphic Converter.

With Graphic Converter, it was simply a matter of selecting the icon 
on the secondary or tertiary tool bar I wanted, copying it, then 
pasting it into the screen where the main tool bar was, and 
maneuvering the pasted icon into place.

Took all of five minutes for the four or five I had to do this way.

Big question: what package on the PC side of things would've let me do 
this with the same ease? ... and no, Photoshop is not an option ($$$).

--gdw

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