Jing vs. Print Screen (a.k.a. Prnt Scrn)
Posted on Wednesday November 7, 2007 by Mike Curtis
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)
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Comments (5)
I actually used only Jing for this blog post and recorded how Jing works.
http://jtbworld.blogspot.com/2007/07/jing-this-or-that.html
http://www.screencast.com/t/6I5UgTT9oeb
The trick was that I had Jing installed on a Virtual PC as well. ;-)
Posted by Jimmy Bergmark | November 8, 2007 1:54 AM
Posted on November 8, 2007 01:54
I have been a fan of snagit and camtasia studio for a long while, but for different reasons I did not get around to jing before today. (I had problems with installing it back then when jing launched, and forgot all about it before meeting Betsy Weber today and hearing more of how it Can be used)
It is a good case study you have there of jing vs. Prnt Scrn, but there are so many other ways this can be done too. I am myself most interested in how screecast.com plays into all of this - how can we share our little screencasts better? How can we find new ones? How can I tag your screencast so that someone else looking for a screencast about "gmail" might find it even if you did not in the beginning describe or tag it with anything resembling "gmail"?
Please, more workflow examples like you have in this post! :) I would love to know more about how all kinds of people use jing.
I have used jing for a total of 15 minutes now and I am a fan!
Posted by Raymond M. Kristiansen | November 9, 2007 4:03 PM
Posted on November 9, 2007 16:03
Hi, Jing folks! ;)
Thanks a lot for your great job. Jing is a great piece of software but I also suggest a little enhancement that will make it almost perfect:
- You should add more focused screen capture options such as window capture.
Well, that's it. For me, your application is much more enjoyable than Snapz Pro and I will write a review of Jing at Mac+, the unique Brazillian Mac magazine.
I suppose you don't understand Portuguese, but our URL is http://www.macmais.com.br/
Thanks again!
See ya! ;)
Posted by Hélio Sassen Paz | November 10, 2007 8:20 AM
Posted on November 10, 2007 08:20
The text editing tools are very minimal or at least that's how it appears to me, bearing in mind that I only got it today and am not familiar with it yet. However there is one editing tool that is basic to me and seems to be missing and that is the rotation tool. I cannot find a way to make a text box, put text into it and then turn it vertically. Maybe some kind soul might enlighten me on how to do this? Regards.
Posted by terry904 | November 11, 2007 9:17 AM
Posted on November 11, 2007 09:17
Not take it personally? What you mean is that your not going to take it to heart.
People aren't interested in features, wiz-bang zoom options..blah blah,blah.
They want a robust answer to a problem. If you aren't solving a serious problem, then don't bother.
Finding like minded people to interact with.
That's the only problem there is in the world.
If your features don't address that...toss it.
Posted by CHAS | November 22, 2007 9:15 AM
Posted on November 22, 2007 09:15