Undo - The "hidden" feature in Jing
Posted on Tuesday August 7, 2007 by Tony Dunckel
Many of you have been asking for the ability to undo an arrow, a highlight or even a text entry when editing an image in Jing. If you are running Jing on a Mac, you do have the ability to reselect any previous edit and manually delete or change it. However, due to some constraints in our development time line, we deferred that capability on the Windows platform in order to get Jing out to all of you that much faster.
Of course, you all miss that feature a lot, right? Presumably so. Well, we hear you on that one loud and clear. :-)
To help with things today, we can at least offer you a keyboard shortcut to "undo" anything in the editor you have already created. For Windows users click the key combination "Ctrl + z", for Mac users click "Cmd + z" to undo an edit. It also has multiple undo, so you can keep "undoing" all the way back to the base image, if you so desire.
Watch a quick Jing video of this in actionOh by the way, you can also "redo" something you "undid" by pressing "Ctrl + y" on Windows and "Cmd + Shift + z" on the Mac. Keep in mind; once an image is shared or saved, the edits previously made cannot be undone or redone. While this solution may not seem optimal, it will at least give you an option to fix those "oops!" moments for now.
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Comments (3)
Any chance in embeddable / share movies?
Posted by e.blom@vpro.nl | August 7, 2007 4:46 PM
Posted on August 7, 2007 16:46
Tony,
What kind of microphone/headset are you using in Jing? I'm using an Altec Lansing C-Media USB headset which sounds great in Camtasia once the sound is cleaned up but in Jing the sound is a bit muffled.
Posted by Mike | August 18, 2007 10:04 PM
Posted on August 18, 2007 22:04
Hi Mike,
I assume by your question that you liked the sound quality in that video. Actually, in this case, I was using the built-in microphone on my MacBook Pro. Surprising, huh?
I've also used a Plantronics DPS v4 headset and had good results with that as well.
We are using ADPCM audio compression at 11.025 kHz, 4-bit at 44kbps, which was the most all around acceptable setting across all our testing. With this, the "esses" sound a little hissy, but outside of that it sounded pretty good.
If you'd like to share a recording with me so we can actually hear the quality differences, shoot me an email at t[dot]dunckel[at]techsmith[dot]com.
Thanks Mike.
Posted by Tony Dunckel | August 29, 2007 8:20 AM
Posted on August 29, 2007 08:20