Add More Zing to Your Camtasia for Mac Screencasts with Snagit

Camtasia for Mac gives us a lot of options for capturing and annotating our screencasts: screen video capture, web cam, audio, importing media, callouts, arrows, blur, etc. However, sometimes you need--or just want--more. It's then that you may want to turn to Snagit, Camtasia's beloved sibling, to pitch in. Some of the things I import from Snagit to Camtasia are: Custom annotations (like curvy arrows!) Stamps (cursors, more styles of keyboard keys, etc.) Still screen captures (as-is Continue reading

Snagit Puts IT Professionals in Two Places at Once

Helpdesk ticketing systems are a primary tool for IT professionals to efficiently answer questions from colleagues and customers. The problems they solve are often a matter of one or two clicks of the mouse, but the solution can quickly get muddled in written emails. So, IT professionals like David Francis use Snagit to clear up confusion. David is a system administrator for a marketing firm in the Midwest that employs more than 350 people across the nation. So, not surprisingly, David can’t Continue reading

Give your content a boost with brand new Snagit Stamps and Camtasia Studio Theme Sets

Did you know that you can get all of the latest TechSmith news sent straight to your email inbox? Each month we deliver a variety of product tips and tutorials, customer stories, company news, and more. And best of all, you can pick and choose the topics and products that you want more information about – giving you a new, customized newsletter each month. Along with our monthly newsletter, each month we’ll continue to bring you brand new Snagit Stamps and Camtasia Studio assets for you to Continue reading

Employee Highlight: Meet TechSmithie Matt Pierce

To continue the Employee Highlight series, I had the pleasure of interviewing our Customer Engagement Manager, Matt Pierce. And we even put together a video interview for you! (Note: content in video is slightly different than text below.) Can't see the video? Watch it on YouTube. An Interview with Matt Pierce Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Matt Pierce. I am the Customer Engagement Manager. I manage our Training and Documentation team, oversee Technical Support, and host the Continue reading

Sharing is Caring – Download new Snagit stamps and Camtasia Studio theme sets for free!

Woah! It's already February? Time flies when you're having fun! Here at TechSmith, we've been having fun the past few months creating brand new digital media assets such as Snagit stamp sets, Camtasia Studio theme sets, and Camtasia Studio music tracks for our newsletter subscribers. While brainstorming new digital media assets for this month, it hit us. Why aren't we giving these awesome freebies to everyone? And the only thing that came to mind was, we've got to share the wealth! That's Continue reading

Improve Your Screenshots by Framing Your Image

Some images have a natural border, while others require you to decide where an image begins and ends. For instance, if you use Window capture, the captured window is its own frame. With a Region capture, you decide where an images borders are. Depending on why you're using a screenshot, sometimes more context means more information. Other times, cutting out the surrounding context makes a screenshot stronger. Consider these three images. They are all variations of the same screenshot, each Continue reading