Its a lot quicker than say, exporting from another location, uploading to your own website and then showing them from there. You can simply take a screen shot of something you want to show somebody, add a few arrows and text to it, and then press a button, and its at your Skitch account on the website, then you can share that location with somebody else. Once you do, in return you get this free space to upload images, and uploading from Skitch is very quick and easy. At the heart of Skitch is the Skitch website, see you have to sign up for the website in order to get the application. You can use a dragging tab to drag it to the finder, which is a very unique way of saving a file, you can also use save as and save it out. You can set the image type here, you can set the variety of formats like JPEG and set the JPEG quality settings even. So when you're done with the image you can save it in a variety of ways. You can also change the colors, and do a variety of other different things like draw text. And since its a screen capture tool primarily, you can use arrows to point things out very quickly and easily. So the editing tools are your basic drawing tools, like pencil, line, circles and that sort of thing. We put it inside of the Skitch frame, as an image, and now we can edit. Then we go back into Skitch and we can see that it has taken the captured area. And then we go and capture a piece of the screen. So for instance lets bring up, a browser window, switch to Skitch, and do capture using cross-hair. We can use capture, and then a variety of ways to capture something. Lets start by using it as a screen capture tool. It goes with the concept of this frame, wrapped around the image, and all of the tools are in the frame. Its a very different look for a graphics program. So after you download Skitch, and you run it, this is what you get. And its really a screen capture tool, but it has some very powerful drawing tools inside of it, which makes it useful as a drawing tool as well. So in Episode 326, we took a look at two free-drawing programs for the Mac, well there's another one I want to talk about. On today's episode lets have a look at Skitch. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 333: Screen Capture and Drawing with Skitch at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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