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Snagit 11: 10 Great Tips & Tricks for Creating Great Images

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Over the years I have developed several quick tricks that help me create images that convey their intended message. I have put my top 10 tips and tricks into a short, illustrated PDF guide that you can download here: [link]. I would love to hear about your tips and tricks for creating great images.

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Time Saver Tuesday - Snagit Print Driver + PDF

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Surfing Twitter today, reminded me of a little known feature in Snagit that can save you lots of time. Snagit has a 'printer' capture option. Snagit shows up as a 'printer' that you can choose when you go to print an image or document. This is useful for several reasons - you can use Snagit as a virtual printer.

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How to Extract Text From An Image: The Definitive Guide

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Imagine there was an easy way to get text out of an image and quickly paste it into another document. The good news is that you no longer have to waste time typing everything out because there are programs that use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to analyze the letters and words in an image, and then convert them to text.

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Snagit 11: 10 Great Tips & Tricks for Creating Great Images

TechSmith Camtasia

Over the years I have developed several quick tricks that help me create images that convey their intended message. I have put my top 10 tips and tricks into a short, illustrated PDF guide that you can download here: [link]. I would love to hear about your tips and tricks for creating great images.

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Snagit and OCR Functionality

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One request I hear is to add OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality to Snagit. There is a work-around if you'd like to do this with Snagit. Or, sometimes you might want to convert a picture or PDF that has text into editable text. If you have Microsoft Office, there is an easy way you can utilize OCR with Snagit.

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3 Myths You Need to Reject to Make More Visual Help Content

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Screenshots and images are like jet fuel for communication. Give me my PDF. As this eye-tracking heatmap shows, the more elements of an image there are to look at and read, the more fragmented the user’s attention will be. Unlike traditional images and screenshots, they rarely need to be replaced because of software updates.

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Everything You Need to Make a Successful User Manual

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For this post, we will focus on the latter, and use Snagit to capture our screenshots. Luckily, Snagit has all the gizmos and gadgets you could ever need for a user manual. So, open Snagit, and get to it! With Snagit, there is a built-in editor for everything you need when making a user manual. The process.

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