#Skitch timed screenshot manual#
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The other programs generally worked by dragging the mouse around the area you wish you capture, releasing the cursor and then having that element select itself. It saves one more step of having to scale-down the image in Preview or Photoshop.Įvery program had the ability to only select a portion of the screen, although SnapzPro's method was the best and most adjustable. This can be EXTREMELY useful if trying to get a screen to use on a website that may have smaller dimensions than the object itself. SnapzPro can even capture the file automatically at a smaller size and you can preview the size before saving. Skitch, had the easiest timed display, simply pressing shift while clicking on the screen or element.īoth Skitch and SnapzPro have the ability to automatically save captured elements at smaller dimensions. I found QuickSnap's timed show dialog to be cumbersome and difficult to use.

#Skitch timed screenshot manual#

InstantShot! can even do multiple timed shots, every few seconds, which could be useful if trying to capture multiple or screens of a program that change too quickly for manual clicking.

This is useful when trying to capture an element of the screen that is usually not visible without cursor interaction (like part of a drop down toolbar) or for programs like Front Row, which are not accessible using typical screen capture hot-keys. QuickSnap uses JPG by default, but can also save to TIFF, PNG, GIF, BMP, SGI, TGA, PICT and PDF.Įvery program except SnapzPro can take timed screenshots. Skitch can use JPG, PNG, SVG, PSD, SKITCH, TIFF and PDF. InstantShot! can save files to PNG, JPG or TIFF.

#Skitch timed screenshot full#

Grab saves full screen and timed captures as *.tiff by default, and windows or isolated elements as PNG. Snapz had some of the most verbose format options, with TIFF, PDF, PICT, PNG, PSD, BMP, GIF and JPG all available as default save options. In fact, if I needed to take a screenshot of the Leopard Dock or an element of the toolbar, Grab would be the only program I would be willing to use, especially if that shot was going to be used in print or in a presentation.Īgain, each program could do this to varying degrees. Aside from Skitch, no other program came even close in this category. Grab also excelled at capturing elements of toolbars or programs.

Every other program would also capture the overlapping window. Additionally, Grab was the only program that could capture a window sitting BEHIND another window, without capturing the overlapping window. Skitch and Grab did the best job with this, because they automatically add a shadow to the image windows, which looks nice displayed on the screen (you can add a shadow to SnapzPro, but doing that adds a white border to the image, whereas both Skitch and Grab are transparent). Essentially, this means choosing to select only one window or toolbar or toolbar element from a program to capture. Applications can do much more than just take full-screen images, and some of the programs I tested have even more advanced features (Skitch has instant edit abilities and SnapzPro can take full fledged screencasts).Įvery program was able to do this to a certain degree. Screenshot applications have come a long way from the old System 7 days (although the default shortcut keys, Command-Shift 3, are the same).