Well, it happened again, and I know I shouldn’t take it personally. Someone recently found out I worked for TechSmith, and said something like, “SnagIt right? I don’t get it. I mean I have Print Screen.”

Now, this post is between Jing and the Print Screen key. For now, I’ll leave SnagIt and its batch conversion, Flash hotspots, edge effects, multitude of file formats, text, callouts, spotlight effects, scrolling window capture-that-keeps-hyperlinks-intact—out of this. Instead, I’ll take a deep breath and save it for my therapist.

My goal in video below is to clearly demonstrate the change in workflow when trying to share an annotated screen image with another human being. I really don’t have anything against the Prnt Scrn key, and in fact, the built-in screen capture on the Mac is fairly robust if you know the key combos. The key qualifiers to this demonstration are the sharing and the annotation.

I hope you enjoy the videos, and I leave you with one disclaimer. Since you can’t record using Jing with Jing, I used Camtasia Studio 5 to record my Jing workflow. Having audio for the following two examples would be beneficial, as I try to narrate the workflow.

Sharing an annotated image without Jing: (2:02, many steps)
Using Jing to share an annotated image: (1:03, few steps)