Comments on: Quickly capture screens and share them on OS X with Skitch http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/20/quickly-capture-screens-and-share-them-on-os-x-with-skitch/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:04:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tommy_Bhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/20/quickly-capture-screens-and-share-them-on-os-x-with-skitch/comment-page-1/#comment-887765 Tommy_B Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:39:35 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16419#comment-887765 What I do in Leopard is either use the keyboard shortcuts to grab a full screen or it'll let you grab a portion; this is Service separate from Grab, or if I need exactly, precisely the image of a window, I'll use Grab; with shots from Grab I just select the window the shot appears in and and hit command-c to copy the image to clipboard (with keyboard shortcuts, I use the key combo that sends the shot directly to the keyboard - you can set those up in System Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts), open Preview, go to File>New From Clipboard and there's your image that you can crop, annotate, and save in all the popular formats (including PDF). Once you nail Preview down, it's pretty cool - I've gotten to where I can use it to even create good enough quality text logos with it's annotate tools for my websites with full transparency. The annotate tools on Skitch look a much more plush though. The Preview tools are really basic. A part of Skitch's terms of use is a little disconcerting though: Section 4 describes how third party software may be incorporated within Skitch, that you must accept all fixes and updates or your access to/use of Skitch Facilities (they define that as referring to both the app and the website) can be terminated immediately, that Skitch products AND these unnamed third party software elements may phone home... I applaud their transparency and candor, but agreeing to let an unknown third party software be installed as part of the package, let alone one that phones home... sounds like trouble. What I do in Leopard is either use the keyboard shortcuts to grab a full screen or it’ll let you grab a portion; this is Service separate from Grab, or if I need exactly, precisely the image of a window, I’ll use Grab; with shots from Grab I just select the window the shot appears in and and hit command-c to copy the image to clipboard (with keyboard shortcuts, I use the key combo that sends the shot directly to the keyboard – you can set those up in System Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts), open Preview, go to File>New From Clipboard and there’s your image that you can crop, annotate, and save in all the popular formats (including PDF). Once you nail Preview down, it’s pretty cool – I’ve gotten to where I can use it to even create good enough quality text logos with it’s annotate tools for my websites with full transparency. The annotate tools on Skitch look a much more plush though. The Preview tools are really basic.

A part of Skitch’s terms of use is a little disconcerting though: Section 4 describes how third party software may be incorporated within Skitch, that you must accept all fixes and updates or your access to/use of Skitch Facilities (they define that as referring to both the app and the website) can be terminated immediately, that Skitch products AND these unnamed third party software elements may phone home… I applaud their transparency and candor, but agreeing to let an unknown third party software be installed as part of the package, let alone one that phones home… sounds like trouble.

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