The global capture hotkey, Print Screen, starts a capture with the currently selected settings in the Capture window. Capture a Window Capture an open window, dialog, or area in an application on your screen. Note: On Mac, if you have multiple monitors you can only select one screen at a time. View steps: Capture the Entire Screen Capture the full screen. Snagit takes a capture with the settings saved for the selected preset.Ĭapture with a Hotkey Hotkey: Use the Global Capture Hotkey Set Snagit to capture a specific location on the screen.

Hover your cursor over the desired preset until a red Preset Capture button appears.

In the Capture window, click the Presets button.

Capture Window: Click the Capture ButtonĬlick the Capture button on any tab in the Capture window to start a capture with the current settings. You can take a quick capture, a customized screen capture (preset), or a video recording. When you open Snagit, the Capture window appears. To learn more about which capture settings are applied, see: The capture settings applied depend on how you start the capture. Snagit offers many different ways to capture. You can optionally choose to discard identical captures if nothing on the screen has changed.When I capture with Snagit, the options set in the Capture window are not used. Set an interval of time where Snagit continuously captures images of the selected area on the screen.

Open the capture in Snagit Editor to preview, edit, and share the image or video.ĭisable this option to prevent Editor from opening automatically after each capture.Ĭopy the capture to the Clipboard to quickly paste into another program or location after capture.įor image captures, the cursor is captured as a vector image that can be moved, edited, or deleted from the image.ĭelay the start of the capture by a number of seconds to allow for additional setup time before capture for items such as dropdown menus.Īfter clicking the Capture button, a countdown appears on the bottom-right corner of the screen.

For more sharing destinations, click the Video tab or share a capture from Snagit Editor. Note: Only destinations that support image file formats are available in the Image tab.

Snagit capture scrolling window