My goal with this document was to guide someone through the basic functions for Techsmith Snagit. My main challenge was to instruct in a manner that was highly comprehensively and allowed for contingences where the reader may have become confused and stuck. I provided visual cues that illustrate what was being taught and provided opportunities for the reader to explore and develop their skills with the application.

1. Tutorial: The Basics
Image Capture + Editing + Video Capture

2. Table of Contents
Chapter 1 “Capture scrolling web pages”…………………………………….................…….3
Chapter II “Capture scrolling web pages.”…………………………………......….......……...6
Chapter III “Creating “screen cam” videos”………………………...........................……….9

3. 2 Chapter I: Capturing/Editing Images
Chapter I
Capturing/Editing Images
You can use Snagit to capture images like snapping a photo on you computer screen.
Thereby, you can show what you have been working on or what you were doing on
your computer. After capturing the image, your image is shown to you on a editing
screen where you can do, among other things, resize and/or crop your image.
Let’s begin with Capturing an image!
Image capturing
In this lesson you will open open Myspace.
com in a browser, go to your Myspace
homepage, then capture an image of your
homepage, then resize and crop it. The
finish product should look like Figure 1
Let’s begin:
1. First make sure you have an account with
Myspace.com. If you don’t, create one.
2. Open Myspace in Firefox.
If your having problems with starting an account
Figure 1
and navigating through Myspace, refer to the
help link in the upper-right corner of Myspace’s
startpage.
3. Go to your Myspace homepage.
4. Open Snagit by clicking on the
Snagit icon on your desktop. This
bring up Snagit’s main screen.
5. Press the big red button at the lower
corner of the screen. Refer to Figure 2
This causes the Snagit’s main page to
disappear and the previous window view
to display. You should see the target screen
and your curser should become a cross.
Figure 2

4. Chapter I: Capturing/Editing Images 3
Make sure the target screen is the next window
opened behind Snagit. If the correct screen is
not there after you have pressed the red button,
press the escape button, maximize the target
screen you wish to capture, return to Snagit,
then repeat step 2
6. Let’s capture and image.
a. Place your curser beneath the
body of your target on either side
(If you want to capture the whole
screen, then place the curser on
either corners of the screen.)
b. Hold down the right mouse button.
c. Move the curser diagonally up
towards the opposing corner Figure 3
d. A box will open around your
target. Refer to Figure 3
e. Let go of the right mouse button when
you’ve selected the desire area.
f. A new Snagit screen will replace your
target screen.Your capture should
be within it. Refer back to Figure 1
g. This is Snagit’s image editor
h. Congratulations! You captured
your first image with Snagit
If you didn’t capture your target as you would
desire, close image editor screen. This will bring
you back to the Snagit’s main page. Repeat
steps one and two.
Now that we have an image, lets play around!
Cropping and Resizing Images
in Snagit Image Editor
Figure 4
1. Let us start by Cropping an image:
a. Place your curser on one the
image’s handles. Refer to Figure 4
b. Hold down the left mouse button
c. Grab one of these handles by placing

5. 4 Chapter I: Capturing/Editing Images
your curser over it until the curser
turns into a two sided arrow.
d. Drag the handle inward to
eleminate unwanted areas.
e. Press Alt-z if you don’t like your
cropping to start over.
Note: All areas cropped are gone and simply
by dragging back from the direction you went
will not restore the image.
2. Congratulations! You just
cropped your first image!
3. Let’s resize your image: Figure 5
On the Snagit Image editor screen, you
will see a captured image on the editing
canvas. To the right of it will be a bar listing
a series of commands. They will be broken
up into four categories. Refer to Figure 5
a. Select the first choice under the
category “Size” titled “Resize
Image.” Refer to Figure 6
b. This will bring up new options
that will allow you to change the
size of your captured image.
c. By press up and down on the
buttons adjacent to either the Width
Firgure 6
or Height boxes, you increase of
decrease the size of your image.
d. Congratulations! You can now
resize your captured image!
The real benefit of the Snagit Image Capturing
Function is the ability to edit an image after
aquiring it. This allows you to tailor what you
grab instantly. Later on when the image needs
further work, you may return to this editor
(or use another image editor if you choose) to
editted the image again.

6. Chapter I: Capturing/Editing Images 5
That concludes this section. Now,
go get some coffee and come
back and play around with the
new skills you’ve acquired!
Here’s some exercises to help you
develop what you’ve learned:
1. Capture an image on your
desktop and crop it so that
only the image is left.
2. Capture a photo on a webpage,
crop it so only the image remains,
then shrink it to the size of an icon
3. Capture one quarter of a
webpage and enlarge it so as to
appear that that section of the
screen has been magnified
Remember:
9 If you make a mistake you can
always use “ctrl z” and “ctrl y”
to siphon between all the steps
you’ve done in your work
9 If this doesn’t help, close the
program and start over.
9 If all else fails, email us:
helpdesk@writeon.com

7. 6 Chapter II: Capture scrolling web pages
Chapter II
Capture scrolling web pages.
You can use Snagit to capture a scrolling web page. With a few steps
a complete page can be captured from top to bottom.
Let’s capture a Scrolling Webpage!
Scrolling page capturing
In this tutorial you will be scroll-capturing
your Myspace homepage, then using the
cropping and resizing tools you learned
in the previous tutorial. You will resize
the image so it fits on one screen.
The finish product should look like Figure 1
Since we have covered cropping and resizing
in the previous chapter, it will not be covered
here. If your still unsure about the latter topics,
do the first chapter over.
Figure 1
Let’s begin:
1. Open target screen.
2. Open Snagit.
3. Select Scrolling window (web page) from
the choices available to you. See Figure 2
4. Press the big red button at the
lower corner of the screen.
This causes the Snagit main page to
disappear and the previous window view
to display. You should see the target screen
and your curser should become a cross.
Make sure the target screen is the next window
openned behind Snagit. If the correct screen
is not ready after you have pressed the red
button, press the escape button then maximize
the target screen you wish to capture, return to
Figure 2
Snagit, then repeat step 2

8. Chapter II: Capture scrolling web pages 7
5. Your now ready to capture an
image from the target window.
a. Place your curser in the main frame (a
red, blinking outline will appear Refer
to Figure 3) surrounding the webpage
b. Press the right mouse button.
A countdown will be displayed on your scrollbar
and the webpage will begin to scroll down.
This signifies that the page is being captured.
You will be brought to the Snagit image editor
screen when the webpage is captured.
c. Use the cropping and resizing skills you
learned in the previous chapter to
get your image to the end product
d. Press “Save as” and save your file
e. Congratulations! You captured your
Figure 3
first scrolling webpage with Snagit
Remember that Snagit in this mode can focus
on the webpage frame or one of the frames in
the webpage. If you don’t get the whole image
the first time you try, start over and make sure
the whole webpage is outlined red.
The benefit of using Snagit Web Capture Function
is you are able to get the whole page cought. A
webpages typical height (due to a webpages scrolling
capability) can be extremely long. Window’s screen
caputure function is only able to capture what is
currently being viewed. The Snagit Web Capture
Fucntion will actually scroll down and aquire the
whole page instead of just what is currently being
viewed!

9. 8 Chapter II: Capture scrolling web pages
That concludes this tutorial. Now,
go get some coffee and come
back and play around with the
new skills you’ve acquired!
Here’s some exercise to help you
develop what you’ve learned:
1. Open your Myspace page and
capture it. Crop it so that only the
My Bulletin Space frame is left.
2. Open an old word document, if you
have one, capture it. Now, you have
you word document in one single
image. Shrink it so it fits on one page
3. Open craigslist.org and open
a link to “apartments for rent,”
capture it, and see how long the
image is. Resize it so it fits on the
screen. How small is the print?
Remember:
9 If you make a mistake you can
always use “ctrl z” and “ctrl y”
to coffin between all the sets
you’ve done in your work
9 If this doesn’t help, close the
program and start over
9 If all else fails, email us:
helpdesk@writeon.com

10. Chapter III: Creating screen cam” videos 9
Chapter III
Creating “screen cam” videos
You can use Snagit to create on-screen videos that record your actions on
the computer screen. Once you’ve finished recording, you can save the
videos as mpegs and other video formats, which can be viewed on Media
Player, Quicktime, Realplayer, or any media player you perfer.
Let’s record an on-screen video!
On-screen video recording
In this chapter you will be making a short
video using the Snagit On-screen Video
Capture Function. Your end product
will be a video that will show you:
a. Opening Internet explorer
b. Navigating to Yahoo
c. Clicking on the weather icon
d. Entering “San Francisco” in
the box asking which city
to check for weather
e. Select “San Francisco, CA” in
the follow-up dialog box
f. Viewing the current weather Figure 1
g. Closing Internet explorer
h. Ending the video.
Let’s begin:
1. Open Snagit by clicking on the
Snagit icon on your desktop. This
bring up Snagit’s main screen.
Make sure no other program is open but
Snagit.
2. Press the “record screen
video” icon. See Figure 1
This causes the Snagit main page to disappear
and the previous window viewed to be
display. You should see the target screen
and your curser should become a cross.
3. You’re now ready to record a video of Figure 2
what you’re doing on your computer.
a. Press the big, red button at

11. 10 Chapter III: Creating“screen cam” videos
the lower right hand corner
of the Snagit main menu
b. Place your curser at the
bottom of your screen .
c. Hold down the right mouse button.
d. Move the curse diagonally up
towards the opposing corner
e. A box will open around
you’re the whole screen
f. Let go of the right mouse button.
g. A dialog box should appear. Press
the start button on the dialog
box to begin. See Figure 2
h. Open Internet explore Figure 3
i. Type www.yahoo.com
j. Click on the weather icon on
the upper left-hand of the
webpage. See Figure 3
k. This opens up Yahoo’s weather page
l. Enter “San Francisco” in the
dialog box that says “Enter city
or zip code.” See Figure 4
m. You will be asked after entering
in the San Francisco by Yahoo
which “San Francisco” do you
want. Select “San Francisco CA”
n. You should now see the San
Francisco Bayarea Weather
Screen. See Figure 5
o. When you finished, double click the
Figure 4
recorder icon in your system tray.
p. This will bring back up the
dialog box. Press the stop
button to stop recording.
4. Now that you’ve record your video, you
must save your work. As soon as you stop
recording, the video editor screen pops up
a. Press save icon to save the recording
b. Congratulations! You just recorded
and saved your first on screen video.
Fgiure 5

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That concludes this tutorial. Now,
go get some coffee and come
back and play around with the
new skills you’ve acquired!
Here’s some exercise to help you
develop what you’ve learned:
1. Open you favorite email program and
record yourself composing an email
2. Open your favorite word processer
and record yourself writing a
document. (Or revising one)
3. Open Windows solitaire game
and record yourself playing
Remember:
9 If you make a mistake you can always
use “ctrl z” and “ctrl y” to coffin between
all the sets you’ve done in your work
9 If this doesn’t help, close the
program and start over
9 If all else fails, email us:
helpdesk@writeon.com