Screenshots are required most of the time for my blog posts. i have played with few of them. right now i am using awesome screenshot app which is okay. However i would like to know ur favorite app which you would like to recommend. Over to you guys

Thanks  @debbie-hemley have tried snagit but need to have a look at the pixir one. One of the other things which i have noticed that the screenshots displayed in SME are so cool. Any idea how is it done

If you’re on Windows 7, they have the Snipping Tool that is built into it.  I’ve also done screen captures with Word directly.

 Hello @prasantnaidu,

I am with both @debbie-hemley and @cindy-king — as I use Snagit. I also am a Chrome browser user and found an awesome chrome app called “Awesome Screenshot” by Diigo (http://awesomescreenshot.com/) that I use right from my browser bar! That has come in handy

I love Snagit. I have bought a lot of software in my life and i feel that it is the best value for money of anything. You can take screen shots but that is just the start. You can then edit them, add speech bubbles, borders, effects, change colors… It’s like having a lot of Photoshop’s functionality at a tiny fraction of the price. And it is so much easier to open, use and be done already. Another thing to be aware of is that every time a jpg is saved, it degrades slightly which leads to pixellation and color blur that you see on some images. Photoshop does the best job of minimizing this but Snagit comes close to their standard. I do web design and I usually use Snagit to quickly mock everything up because it is so much faster than Photoshop. Then when i know what I want it to look like, I go back and create the final version from scratch so that it does not have the pixellation.

@kristi-hines & @juleswebb,

I’ve used Jing for screen capture video, but not screenshots.  So, nice to learn a new trick today.

Thank you both!

~Keri

Hi  @cindy-king this is a great place to be I have used snagit thanks for the suggestion.I use it for the minimum work like all other bloggers but my problem is that when i am taking screen shots the size differs. Any way of controlling it so the post looks decent with proportionate images ?

@abigailgorton thanks for your info will play around more with snagit

@prasantnaidu I have been using “Greenshot” for many of my screen shots and really like the ease of use and functionality. I haven’t used as often with blogging but on several projects and day-to-day tasks I really enjoy using “Greenshot”

@prasantnaidu 

For PC Users I highly recommend this free one called ScreenHunter.Love it, very easy and quick.
For Mac Users, in Utilities you can use iGrab. Again very easy but saves as TIFF.  So I downloaded a free app called CaptureMe and that’s a good one too and will save as a JPG by default not TIFF.
But the one thing I love about iGrab is that I use it alot with Photoshop. I just take the screenshot and then copy and paste it into a new Photoshop file. Very easy
ScreenHunter:http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm CaptureMe: http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/captureme/

Enjoy,Heather

@nicoleetolen You might want to look into Greenshot or something similar that is mentioned in these posts! Greenshot follows the print screen functionality but you actually are able to select exactly what on the screen you are wanting and once selected it goes into an editing screen. I find it extremely helpful!

@nicoleetolen use to do the same for long time but now using Jing and liking it too

These all sound like very good programs for the quick and dirty screenshot. Is there an optimal program for putting your content into an html visually.