Friday, September 4, 2009

Simple Screenshot and Image Manipulation Tool

Here at Beehive Media we love simple solutions. I recently came across a fantastic example of simplicity and needed to share it quickly. If you ever need to create a screenshot of something on your computer, how do you do it? On a Mac, you just hold down CMD-SHIFT-3 or on Windows, you hit "Print Screen" to copy to your clipboard. Then you need to open Photoshop or something, paste, then manipulate the image. Photoshop takes awhile to open, eats up a ton of memory and for a quick and dirty image, is often not worth the trouble. In comes Skitch - a super easy way to take screen shots, mark them up, crop them, highlight things, write text on them, etc. And you can also use photos or any image from your hard drive. You can easily click and drag an image you've made into an email or post it to your personal Skitch page or any other site, via FTP, SFTP or to Flickr, etc. Great tool, easy and fast to use, etc. Thank you @ev for tweeting about it so I could discover this fantastic piece of software!

1 comment:

S. said...

I'm definitely going to check this out. One of my profs mentioned screenshots for presentations, so I have a feeling it'll come in handy. Thanks for posting!