Today I have an interesting Tip and Trick for Snagit Users.  If you own Snagit and do not know how to capture a menu list read on.

If you have never heard of  this software SnagIt is the best screen capture software you can find in the market.  Once you start using it you will wonder how you managed without it! Its like  mobile phones , how did we ever survive without them?? How did we ever survive without Snagit??

Snagit has  five different capture modes and over 40 different ways to capture, no wonder, SnagIt outrules them all!

To start off, I’m going to ask you, “Do you know how to capture a menu/ dropdown list with your screen capture software?”

If your answer is “No”. Well, there can be two reasons why you picked that answer:

1. Your software doesn’t have the capability to do so.

Solution: Try SnagIt

2. You are using SnagIt but you have no idea how to do it.

Solution: Use the Time Delayed Capture.

How to Use the Time Delayed Capture

Open Snagit and select the Profile Mode you would like to use to Perform you Capture e.g region, scrolling mode etc. : (See image below)

Click on the ‘Capture’ menu (you find this on the top left of your snagit screen)  and then select ‘Timer Setup…’ you get the screen below.

On the Timer Setup window shown above check the box for ‘Enable delayed/ Scheduled Capture

Select the Delayed Capture radio button and Set a time delay on the Delay field between 1 and 60 seconds.

Check the Display Countdown checkbox to see the countdown appear on the lower right-hand corner of your screen. Click Apply and OK.

Now you’re ready to capture  your menu/dropdown list.

NOTE: Just make sure you have the Menu/Dropdown selected before the countdown ends. Once the countdown ends, wait for the capture box to appear and select your desired capture area.

Example:

Now its your turn give it a try and share your comments  below on your first experience performing a  ‘Delayed Capture’ using Snagit.

You are now a few steps closer to becoming a Certified SnagIt Expert .

I look forward to seeing your comments.

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

Time for another Tutorial!

We are going to teach you how use the Bevel Tool of Xara Xtreme 5.0. Don’t belittle this tool as it can transform a simple object into a professional-looking work of art.

At the end of this article, we will show some images made possible by the power of Bevel Tool.

To start off, create your desired object it could be anything, you can choose  from the Tools menu located on the left-hand side of the Xara Xtreme’s work area. (Text, Shape, Free-hand, etc) Once you’re done, click on the Bevel Tool from the tool menu on the side, then from the drop-down menu on top, click on the arrow to see all types of bevel, choose your desired type.

Apart from the Drop-down menu, you may also adjust the bevel depth, contrast, light angle and light elevation. For example, to adjust the contrast of the bevel, make sure it is set to “Contrast” and then toggle from slider or enter your desired percentage.

IMAGE You can control the bevel depth and the light angle in two ways apart  from doing it manually, you may also use the red arrows by dragging them to your preferred depth and the black arrows to the direction where you want the sun light to create an effect on the object.

There are also other tools on the Bevel Menu, like the buttons for creating an effect to your bevel to appear outside or inside the object. You may also change the color of the bevel by selecting the bevel and choose your desired color from the color palette located on the bottom of the Xara Xtreme’s work area.

Another tool  allows the shape of your bevels to be either mitered, round or beveled.

The examples used above are for demonstration purposes only, thus, I am encouraging you to create a better and artistic outputs from this bevel tutorial.

See below some work of art made out of the Bevel Tool by Groucho see more here….

See more from Fusion Bevel outputs here…..

If you’re not a Xara Xtreme owner yet you can purchase and download Xara Xtreme right away!

This is enough to give you some inspiration! Now, you’re all set and I hope that this tutorial brings out the Xara bevel side of you!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Xara Guide

Hi Friends,

Do you own Snagit? If yes then this is a must read because 99% of Snagit users don’t know the answer to my question  “How do you Capture a Snagit Screen using Snagit”?.

If you have never heard of Snagit this is a software thats a ” MUST HAVE”, its the most popular selling software at Softwarecasa.  Mainly because its one of the most useful software besides an antivirus that anyone could ever purchase, you will use it daily! Once you start using Snagit you will wonder how you managed without it.

Snagit is a screen recording software that Captures, edits, and helps you  share exactly what you see on your screen with others within seconds!

Softwarecasa has a 30 day money back guarantee on Snagit so you can purchase it today and if you are not happy with its performance you will  get a full refund provided its within the 30 days.

Now back to the millions of Snagit funs…

A common question that most Snagit users don’t have an answer to is how to capture a Snagit Screen using Snagit!  We receive alot of support emails with this question, I must admit the  first time I got the question I was dumbfounded myself, but not for long.

This is an actual example of an email we got from a Snagit user:

“I am trying to create in-house step by step instructions on how to perform video capture using SNAGIT. I am trying to capture SNAGIT’s home page w/Quick Launch, Related Tasks, Profiles, and Profiles Settings. But when I use Printscreen it activates SNAGIT. I’ve also tried to use Ctrl Insert, Ctrl A, Ctrl C to capture the screen but to no avail. Is there some way that I can get around the Print Screen hotkey and get my screen capture? I would appreciate feedback as soon as possible…thank you and have a nice holiday…” - Kathy

There are two ways in capturing a Snagit Screen using Snagit:

A. Hide Snagit before capturing

1.Launch Snagit.
2.Go to Tools menu.
3.Click Program Preferences…
4.Go to Program Options tab.
5.Uncheck Hide Snagit before capturing.
6.Click Apply button.
7.Then OK.

B. Change Global Capture Hotkeys

1.Go to Program Preferences…
2.Click Hotkeys tab.
3.On the Global capture hotkey, by default it is set to Print Screen, change it to a different key except Print Screen.

4.Click Apply button.
5.Then OK.

How to capture Snagit using Print Screen

When performing a capture using the alternative steps, just press the Print Screen button on your keyboard > open Snagit Editor > create a new blank image (Ctrl + n)> then paste the image (Ctrl + v).

The Print Screen function normally captures the entire screen display, you will have to crop the image to get the desired image from the captured image.

That easy!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Software Guide

Hello Friend,

To all Snagit fanatics out there many of whom until now did not know that apart from capturing images with Snagit you can also perform a video capture using only Snagit.

If you have never heard of Snagit this is the World’s No.1 screen capture software, but not only does it perform screen capture you can also perform Video Captures!

Normally, people tend to stereotype Snagit as an Image or Text Capture software ONLY. What they don’t know is that, Snagit has the capability too, to capture a video. Below we’ll see a how-to video of capturing video using Snagit.

Before you proceed with the video there are settings that need to be configured for the Snagit produced videos to come out good and working.

How to Avoid Common Snagit Video Capture Errors

Black Screen after Video Capture:

This is due to graphics hardware acceleration being used to display the image/video, it performs a “hardware overlay” causing it to produce a black screen.

The only way to solve this is to disable the graphics hardware acceleration, if you do not know how to do this please follow the instructions below:

• Windows XP or 2000: Right-click on the desktop and select Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot. Set the Hardware acceleration slider to None. See image.

• On other versions of Windows: Select Control Panel > System > Performance tab > Graphics > Advanced settings. Set the Hardware acceleration slider to None.

No Audio on Video Capture

Set your Audio Capture Device to Audio, to do so, just click Snagit’s output > Properties > on the Audio Capture Device, change it to your audio > click Apply > OK.

Now you’re all set!

Are you ready to record a video capture? Then watch this video tutorial on how to do so:

I hope this has been helpful if you would like to do some simple video captures with Snagit you now have the skill, if you already own Snagit you can upgrade to the latest Snagit 9.0 for all the new features.

Maximize on your Snagit Software and use it to its full potential today!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Software Guide

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