Snagit 9 transparent fill how to#
Snagit 9 transparent fill trial#

The image youРІР‚в„ўve captured is in the middle and all effects are on the right such as resizing the image, adding a drop shadow, a torn effect (which is what IРІР‚в„ўve used), adding a caption and so on. The tools you need are on the left, such as boxes, arrows, highlighter, text and so forth. You can then annotate it all you want and save it in the format of your choice. You click a button and it captures either a window or you can draw a box around what youРІР‚в„ўre interested in.

Snagit 9 transparent fill how to#

ItРІР‚в„ўs fantastic for putting together documentation or explaining to someone how to use a piece of software. ItРІР‚в„ўs a great tool for taking screenshots of things and adding boxes, arrows and a variety of effects to explain something.

Results tend to be better than IrfanView.IРІР‚в„ўve been an avid user of SnagIt for a few years now. A 4 Mbyte image saved without filtering may compress to not much more than 2 Mbytes with filtering. The dialogue may take some time to redraw the image previews if youРІР‚в„ўre taking screen shots of large, photo-realistic images. The dialogue shows what the New file size will be so that you can immediately tell if the choice was a good one for that image. To optimise file sizes for other images, try setting the compression level to Max (the default level is 6). Click on the Filter drop down to try the Paeth filter. The default settings seem to be optimised for saving screen shots of dialogue boxes, but if youРІР‚в„ўre saving photorealistic images, you may get much better results by using a filter. When you save an image from FastStone Capture (I always use PNG because it is lossless), click on the Options button to open the save options dialogue. If preparing images for a web site, it may be worth the effort of trying different filters. Some images will benefit very little, others a great deal, so use the highest setting (9), unless speed is the most important factor.Р”Р‡astStone Capture also supports other compression filters, which again can have dramatic effects on some types of images. The usefulness of compression depends very much on the data being compressed. Using IrfanView, I did find significant differences between the different compression levels. I find it much easier to use FastStone Capture.

When the Choose transparent color dialog box appears with the image,click somewhere in the background to make it transparent.

Select the Choose transparent color during saving.

Set the Save quality: to РІР‚Сљ100РІР‚Сњ, the highest setting.

The compression settings offer 10 values (0-9), but 1-9 make very little difference.

When the Choose transparent color dialog box appears with the image, click somewhere in the background to make it transparent.

Check Save Transparency as Alpha channel box.

Set the Compression level: Setting РІР‚Сљ1РІР‚Сњ achieves most of the savings.

Check the Show options dialog (alt+o), if not already checked.

Make sure itРІР‚в„ўs going in the right folder.

Can anyone tell me if these are the correct procedures: I have two procedures, one for GIFs and one for PNGs. For some reason, it does not work for images created using the WordArt tool in Word 2007. It works well for images that were captured off the screen using SnagIt.

Snagit 9 transparent fill trial#

By trial and error approach, I came up with the procedures below for removing the background in graphic images.